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MeetCute: Another Crazy Blind Date Service

THE NEXT WEB - Feb 14 - MeetCute encourages serendipitous meetings between people who don’t know each other, and are likely to be attracted to one another. After signing up, users are asked to indicate the faces they find attractive from a list of people. Then, when they fancy putting the service to the test, they send a text message to a dedicated phone number, specifying a location and time that they’d like a chance at an ‘encounter’. The service then uses this data and an algorithm to find someone nearby who is likely to be a good match, prompting them that a potential encounter is available nearby.

by Martin Bryant
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Feb 15, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Dating Sites Remake The Introductions

BOSTON GLOBE - Jan 29 - Tawkify, a blind-date matchmaking site, bills itself as “the new old way to date.” It is one of several matchmaking start-ups tailored to millennials who seek companionship, but who have no interest in enduring a string of traditional one-on-one dates to find it. “Social club” is how Grouper is billed. Grouper uses members’ Facebook profiles to set up a date between two people — who each invite two friends along, increasing the odds of clicking with someone. MeetCute sends potential matches to a location but doesn’t reveal them to each other, forcing participants to connect with their MeetCute match or with a total stranger. OkCupid just launched Crazy Blind Date, an app that lets users pick a location and a day, then sit back and get paired up someone to go out with. Such casual or creative meet-ups may offer more “guaranteed fun” than the typical dinner or drinks. Making online meet-ups as relaxed as possible could be the way to keep young people on the Web dating scene, said a Northwestern University psychology professor, Eli Finkel, who studies romantic relationships.