We Are Never Ever Going To Stop Online Dating
Over at Slate, Amanda Hess speculates that dating websites like OKCupid and Tinder will die out soon.It's a strange argument because it's pegged to a Pew study that says the opposite. More people are...
View ArticlePJ Is On Freakonomics This Week!
Our intrepid host, PJ Vogt is on the Freakonomics Podcast this week, talking about - what else? - online dating. Listen to the episode below. PJ shows up around 10 minutes in, but it's best to start...
View ArticleThe App That Allows Women to Rate Men Has Just Become A Lot More Man-Friendly
On the seventh episode of TLDR, PJ interviewed Maureen O'Connor about Lulu, an app which allows women to rate men based on a set of prescribed hashtags as innocuous as #loveshisfamily and...
View ArticleMatch.Com Uses Facial Recognition Software To Pair Users With People Who Look...
When it comes to dating, people generally have a type. Blonds, brunettes, big noses, little ears, a person often finds an immutable set of physical characteristics attractive. It's just a fact. So...
View ArticleJakeDate.com Nails App Marketing, Reminds Us That Tech is Boring
The latest in dating is here: JakeDate, an app that allows you to finally connect – with Jake.JakeDate.com, created by the GroupThink Group, is a parody of both dating apps and the over designed...
View ArticleE-Cyrano
The New York Times Magazine reported last year that 40 million Americans had visited at least a dating site in a single month. And with 40 million people competing for dates, somebody’s going to want...
View ArticleThe Art of Online Dating
In 2008, Manhattan-based artist and programmer R. Luke DuBois set up an account at Match.com. As a dating venture, the effort was a bit of a bust. "I didn't end up really meeting anybody," he explains....
View ArticleLoving Online
Food, Inc. director Robert Kenner's latest documentary "When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet," takes a look at relationships in the digital age. He joins us along with Marc Weiss, the...
View ArticleLibya's Online Dating Revolution
"May your day be full of Jasmine," one online dater in Libya wrote to a woman who's profile he found attractive.Coded words, from one firey opposition fighter to another.Libyans fighting the forces of...
View ArticleBroadband Love: Your Do's, Don’t's and Lessons
We kick off our month-long series on Internet dating with a call-in -- how is online dating different from traditional dating? What lessons have you learned and what advice would you share? Give us a...
View ArticleBroadband Love: Who Dates Online, Anyway?
Charles J. Orlando is a relationship expert, YourTango partner, and the author of The Problem with Women…is Men. He joins us as we continue our June series on online dating with a look at some of the...
View ArticleBroadband Love: How To Pick A Site
Charles J. Orlando, our guest for the month of June, is a relationship expert, YourTango partner, and the author of The Problem with Women… Is Men. We continue our series on online dating with a...
View Article"State of Date" Online Dating Do's and Dont's
The website "State of Date" collects surveys from online daters (mostly women) reporting on their experience: how they met, how the date went, and more. When they heard about the Brian Lehrer Show's...
View ArticleBroadband Love: Making the Connection
Charles J. Orlando, our guest for the month of June, is a relationship expert, YourTango partner, and the author of The Problem with Women…Is Men. We continue our series on online dating with a look at...
View ArticleTerry’s Treasure
Producer Lea Thau embarks on a strange online dating adventure. Get the full story here. Producer Lea Thau embarks on a strange online dating adventure. Get the full story here.
View ArticleWhat Technology Does to Meeting and Mating
Journalist Dan Slater shows how online dating is changing society in more profound ways than we imagine. In Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating, he explores how...
View ArticleRedesigning Mentoring Through Technology
Finding a mentor can be a difficult and challenging process, but a startup called Everwise believes it's figured out how to connect potential mentors and mentees through data analysis. The tech firm...
View ArticleAndrea Askowitz: Be My Baby
A woman finds her way to the all-american, suburban, lesbian life. Get the full story here. A woman finds her way to the all-american, suburban, lesbian life. Get the full story here.
View ArticleAnniversary Episode: Strangers Revisited
An online dater finds love after 16 years, and an exonerated prisoner goes to see the former District Attorney. Get the full story here. An online dater finds love after 16 years, and an exonerated...
View ArticleWhat You Don’t Know About Online Dating
Thick markets, thin markets, and the triumph of attributes over compatibility.This episode is included in the Freakonomics #smartbinge podcast playlist at wnyc.org/smartbinge
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