Friendfinder: The Guardian: Online: Mobile matters: Hide and seek
Location-based services such as FriendFinder are heading for the UK Lars breaks off from work to discover his mobile phone has received a text message. Judging by his reaction, it is not a friendly greeting. One of his opponents in a game called Botfighter has located him, is just a couple of kilometres away and is poised to send a missile via SMS. Lars desperately fiddles with his handset to try to return fire - but the damage is done. Once again, the SMS missile has damaged his imaginary...
Friendfinder: ¡Emparejate!,
Si ya sientes que se te está yendo el tren, anímate y conoce las opciones que existen para conseguir pareja
PRIMERA FILA / Redacción Que levante la mano quien considere que ser un ermitaño alejado del amor es lo mejor para mantener saludables y sin mermas las finanzas emocionales.Pocos asoman el pulgar ante el requerimiento y, por el contrario, son muchos y muchas quienes voltean santos, se bañan en pócimas, se hacen la limpia y la lipo; rondan las plazas, los bares, las galerías y hasta el internet en busca del preciso ser del deseo sobre el cual orientar las pasiones.Atinarle no es...
Friendfinder: On Valentine's Day, Chairman of Online Dating Trade Association Speaks to Health of the Internet Personals Industry
Edge Communications, Inc. Ken Greenberg, 818-719-9292 ken@edgepress.com or Matt Roberts, 310-474-3400, ext. 15 mroberts@impactpr.com Userplane's Michael Jones Welcomes Comcast's VOD Offering to Sector, Addresses Recent Jupiter Report on Growth of Online Personals Market WHO: Michael Jones, newly elected chairman of IDEA OASIS, the Internet Dating Executive Alliance/Online Association for Social Industry Standards (www.ideaoasis.org). Comprised of such companies as...
Friendfinder: TECHNOLOGY
State Spam Laws Rarely Enforced
Internet: It's difficult to track down senders on the Web,and prosecutors are busy with other crimes.
Anyone cleaning out a bulging e-mail in box probably has wished for a law regulating spam, the unsolicited electronic messages that promise instant weight loss, overnight riches and triple-X pictures.Twenty states, including California, have laws governing the distribution of commercial e-mail to individuals and companies. Violations can lead to fines and even jail time.But the laws almost never are enforced. No one has been prosecuted under California's 4-year-old...
Friendfinder: Online dating builds road across ocean
A lot of people are wary of online dating. But our experience led to happiness and marriage. Dana lived in Wauwatosa; Alan was from Fife, Scotland. We met a year ago in April on the Friend Finder site (www.friendfinder.com). It's a dating matching service but also has chat rooms just for conversations. Neither of us started out to find a mate. We were just interested in meeting friends. We wandered into the same chat room. Alan was intrigued by Dana's...