How to Flirt Online

What can you say in an email to entice someone to get to coffee talk? You are trying to get to the first date level. So what are the tricks to flirting online?
A 38-year-old female comedian told me, " I don't think it is hard to flirt via email at all. It's like acting. It's very fun to flirt online." Here are some ideas that should help you get to a first date faster.
Three online flirting success keys:

1. Humor is your ally
2. Keep it simple
3. Hand out compliments

10 email flirting questions

• Where did you get that fantastic smile?
• What is your favorite ice cream flavor and why?
• What is the most romantic place that you've been on a date?
• What would you do if we got stuck in a snow storm in the mountains?
• If you were going to take me out for a romantic evening, what would we do?
• What is your favorite thing to do with a partner for fun?
• If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
• How long have you played guitar? (Ask about something in their profile.)
• Wow, is that your cute golden retriever? (Compliment something in their photograph.)
• When are we going to meet to find out whether we would ever want to kiss each other? (Depending on the person, you can sound cute using this one)

Read the full article writen by Liz H. Kelly

Online child safety initiatives

A big topic of discussion lately is the increasingly large influence media of all kinds can have in the lives of children and teens. Last week I participated in a conference in New York about this important issue, sponsored by CommonSense Media and The Aspen Institute together with several organizations that have a stake in child safety. (Here are videos of the speakers.)

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The perfect honeymoon - Seychelle

Love Knows No Borders

comScore Networks recently reported that 22 percent of Internet users, age 15 and older, visiting online personals sites in December 2006 were in France, followed by the British with 20 percent and the Americans with 13 percent.
In the U.K., the most popular site is DatingDirect.com (recently acquired by France's most popular personals site MeetIC) with 1.4 million U.K. visitors in December '06. Yahoo! Personals leads the category in the U.S., with 4.5 million U.S. visitors, age 15 or older. In addition, the only site included in the ranking of the top online personals sites in at least two countries is Match.com.

Top Personals Sites in the U.K. (Visitors Age 15+ December 2006 Home and Work Locations)
Web Properties Unique Visitors (000)
Total Web Users in U.K. (Age 15+) 29,788
Personals Category Total 5,836
DATINGDIRECT.COM 1,427
LOOPYLOVE.COM 960
GIRLSDATEFORFREE.COM 618
Match.com Sites 510
INTERRODATE.CO.UK 452


Top Personals Sites in France (Visitors Age 15+ December 2006 Home and Work Locations)
Web Properties Unique Visitors (000)
Total Web Users in France (Age 15+) 24,409
Personals Category Total 5,317
MeetIC 2,258
Easyrencontre 724
CAPFRIENDS.FR 369
2BECOME1-FR.COM 337
MSN Dating & Personals 299


Top Personals Sites in the U.S. (Visitors Age 15+ December 2006 Home and Work Locations)Source: comScore Media Metrix
Web Properties Unique Visitors (000)
Total Web Users in the U.S. (Age 15+) 152,350
Personals Category Total 20,555
Yahoo! Personals 4,153
Match.com Sites** 3,970
TRUE.COM 3,086
Spark Networks 2,504
SINGLESNET.COM 2,173

Source: comScore World Metrix
Note: Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes and access from mobile phones or PDAs and traffic from (other) sites powered by Match.com

Where the Women Are Online

Ever go to a bar and say, "What a sausage party"?

Internet dating sites can be the same way. But a Hitwise report based on Internet visits suggests there are a few online dating destinations with way more women.
Still, among more widely trafficked sites, eHarmony has a far higher ratio of women to men, with 68.6 percent of visits coming from women. “It’s a boon for men,” LeeAnn Prescott, research director for Hitwise, said of eHarmony.

What else are women attracted to? They appear to be into sites for local hookups, Catholic dates, Latin men, and sugar daddies. That’s judging by the popularity of such sites as LocalHookUpz, 69.2 percent female visited, CatholicMatch.com, 72 percent, LatinAmericanCupid.com, 72.9 percent, and Sugar Daddie, 68.3 percent. Sugar Daddie’s web site boasts a service for millionaires, CEOs, lawyers, and benefactors.

Full Article : Red Herring

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The Truth about Online Dating

Online daters often regret telling the truth, feeling that too much honesty creates a bad impression.
In the U.S. alone, tens of millions of people are trying to find dates or spouses online every day. How accurate are the ads they find? And just how successful is online dating compared with conventional dating? These and other questions have recently stimulated a small explosion of studies by social scientists. The research is quickly revealing many surprising things about the new world of online dating, and some of the ­findings could be of great value to the millions who now look to the Internet to find love.

Full Article : Scientific American

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and DISMAY...
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and SADNESS...
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Top 10 Mistakes Men Make When Contacting Women Online

Here are the top ten things that you should avoid when contacting women online:

• Mistake #1: Sending her 'just' a wink
• Mistake #2: Not having a recent quality photo in your profile
• Mistake #3: Sending a message with a boring subject
• Mistake #4: Sending her a vague, generic or otherwise lame message
• Mistake #5: Taking too long to respond to her message
• Mistake #6: Asking for her personal information too soon
• Mistake #7: Making sexual innuendos in your first message
• Mistake #8: Sending her money or a credit card number
• Mistake #9: Checking out her “really hot” nude photos on her personal website
• Mistake #10: Not knowing what you really want

FULL ARTICLE @ BC MAGAZINE

Inside MySpace.com

Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social network's computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt to keep pace with exploding growth - the site now handles almost 40 billion page views a month. Most corporate Web sites will never have to bear more than a small fraction of the traffic MySpace handles, but anyone seeking to reach the mass market online can learn from its experience.

Full article: Baseline magazine

YouTube to Share Revenue With Users

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users
"We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users," Hurley said at the World Economic Forum. "So in the coming months, we are going to be opening that up."
Full Article: The times tribune

Looking for love with a background check

Dating sites have been slow to adopt safety-filtering measures; few dating sites conduct their own background checks on members and only one seeks to verify marital status.
Nearly 60 percent of Internet users said they think a lot of online daters lie about their marital status, according to Pew Internet & American Life Project study last year.
In the past decade, sites such as Yahoo Personals, Match.com and eHarmony helped make Web-based courtship mainstream for 10 million current daters. But some seasoned veterans say the thrill of using the Internet’s power to find soul mates has given way to caution. Singles now draw on a growing arsenal of security and research tools — from services that verify identity and background to companies that provide temporary phone numbers as a barrier to stalkers. Sites like DontDateHimGirl.com allow scorned lovers to warn others away from their bad dates.

Full article: FayObserver