SKOUT Mobile Dating on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show
February 20, 2010
Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert
Listen to Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show where we talked about the hot topic of Mobile Dating with SKOUT’s CEO, Christian Wiklund.
SKOUT originally started as a social networking application and became the first iPhone social dating application. Marie Claire magazine named SKOUT their favorite iPhone dating application.
Find out who the mobile dating users are and how over 50% of iPhone dating users met their sweethearts using location based dating services.
Learn more about dating, love and romance in a Web 2.0 World.
Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show Featuring SKOUT
February 18, 2010
Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert
Join Cyber-Dating Expert, Julie Spira as she welcomes Christian Wiklund, CEO of SKOUT to Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show.
SKOUT is a social dating service which allows you to browse singles, flirt, chat, and meet in real life. Their location based service is growing in popularity as mobile and GPS based services are expanding worldwide.
Find out more about real-time mobile dating on Saturday, February 20, 2010. Call in at 646–929-0012 to find out more about dating, love & romance in a Web 2.0 World.
LA Times – Finding the Right Online Dating Service
February 15, 2010
Online dating has become a very HOT topic.
The Los Angeles Times featured a story on how to find the right online dating service which appeared in the IMAGE section.
In the article, Mark Brooks from Online Personals Watch called the Internet the world’s largest bar. I have to agree here.
Read my expert dating advice in the cover story of the Valentine’s edition of Los Angeles Times.
“EHarmony has [about 250] questions in their questionnaire,” says Julie Spira of CyberDatingExpert.com and author of “The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online.” “Anyone who signs up with eHarmony is truly serious about having a relationship with someone.”
Industry experts Brooks and Spira also praise GPS-based mobile applications like Skout and Foursquare that let users find out what people are doing and where they are so they can join the party at the bar or restaurant and meet new people.
For those who want to approximate a real in-person date before spending time and money on what might very well be an awkward first date, CyberDatingExpert.com’s Spira says to look to webcams.
“People are so conditioned on the first date to be disappointed that you don’t look like your photo,” she explains. She lists Speeddate.com or WooMe.com, both meet-via-webcam sites with younger clienteles, as success stories because their users tend to be less inhibited and quick learners of the software platform. “With video, what you see is what you get. But the older people in their 40s and 50s aren’t taking the time to do videos. You’re just getting them to join online dating for the first time so it’s like baby steps.”
Virtual sites, such as Second Life, OmniDate.com and Weopia.com, or even gaming sites, such as World of Warcraft (where romances have sometimes sparked between members of the gamers’ playing guilds), are perfect for those who are “gadget oriented” but also add another layer of anonymity, Spira says — something that can be a pro or a con. She says that virtual daters should get real pictures of their suitors before getting too serious.
Spira says it’s also common for online daters to be on several dating sites at once, at least one of which is free. But there might be a lot of abandoned profiles on free sites because “if you are paying $50 a month for an online dating site, you’re going to pay more attention to those e-mails. It’s economics.”
Click here to read full article on the Los Angeles Times
OkCupid on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show
January 9, 2010
Listen to the Season Premiere of Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show featuring Sam Yagan, CEO and co-founder of OkCupid.
Find out why they are different from other online dating sites and why Sam thinks his site is like an online singles bar.
Hear about OkCupid Trends, their blog filled with interesting surveys including:
- How to get a better response to your initial greeting
- How short or long should your profile be
Find out what the most popular dating tests are including:
- The Commonly Confused Words Test
- What Kind of Girl Are You Test
Hear about their iPhone app and what Sam thinks of mobile dating and more on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show.
Are You Interested? – Mobile Dating In Real Time
November 18, 2009
Are You Interested? Are you Interested right now? Get ready for more GPS – In real life dating. Over 2.5 million user sessions have occurred with Are You Interested’s iPhone application and meeting someone from the convenience of their cell phone has become more popular and easy to use.
Snap Interactive, just announced their live chat feature for singles wanting to date or hook-up with their new GPS-based chat feature on its popular Are You Interested? iPhone mobile dating application. The chat functionality enables singles to communicate with other singles through their iPhone in real time in their choice of chat rooms, which are broken down by age range and other categories including sexual orientation. Additionally, singles have the ability to identify users that are nearby and initiate private chat conversations with a specific user.
Are You Interested? iPhone Stats:
- More than 2.5 million user sessions
- Users across over 170 countries
- Users average time – 16 minutes per day on the app
The 'Are You Interested?' brand, has over 14 million users. Singles can date on several platforms including Facebook, AreYouInterested.com, and the Are You Interested? iPhone application. Are You Interested? was one of the first dating application success stories on Facebook. By introducing their new chat feature with its real time, GPS-based functionality, as well as integrating their mobile dating application with their web properties, they believe they have successfully differentiated this.
If you have tried AreYouInterested? please share your success story on the CyberDatingExpert.com site.
Julie Spira is a dating expert and author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online. Visit her at CyberDatingExpert.com
Julie Spira on KTLA – Is Mobile Dating for You?
November 10, 2009
Mobile and cell phone dating are one of the hottest trends in online dating.
View my recent appearance on KTLA News about this hot topic to look at some options you might want to consider for that instant connection.
