Video Dating Clicks With Web-Savvy Lonely Hearts
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This Valentine's Day, Berkeley-grad student Stephanie Gerson is sharing a romantic dessert with her boyfriend -- and you're invited. Hosted in conjunction with the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, Gerson is planning to reunite several long-distance couples for a romantic meal via video conference.  Gerson's small-scale experiment is part of a larger boom in online dating geared at the Web 2.0 crowd.
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Business & money: Online dating agencies are changing to attract the MySpace generation.
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Blog: Web site lets people post classified videos
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MySpace takes personal profile-advertising matchmaking program for a walk.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 8  /PRNewswire/ -- Goombah (http://www.goombah.com/), a free desktop application for intelligent music recommendations, offers these thoughts for Valentine's Day. We've all been there--a bad break up, a broken heart.
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Comment is free: AgnÃ¨s Poirier: In the country of romance, a website is making sex and adultery as easy as buying a croissant.
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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Breaking up is always hard to do. But when couples split these days, they don't just have to divide their friends, dishes and favorite restaurants. They also have to figure out how to untangle their digital lives. "You need to visualize your breakup as exorcising your electronic connections as well as your physical connections," says Anna Zornosa, vice president and general manager of Yahoo Personals, the largest online dating site, according to comScore Media Metrix, which tracks Internet traffic. And that, she says, does not just apply to teenagers who spend hours on social networks. Just about all of us use e-mail, cellphones and other devices to stay connected.
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Researchers are using Facebook habits to study how tastes and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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NEW YORK -- A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.
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Google's video-sharing site helps users edit uploads without leaving the site.
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Recently I had lots of time on my hands visiting relatives and in-laws. Most of the time I was able to get an Internet connection. Sometimes I had to leech my connection from unsecured wireless access points. Some of my relatives and friends posted videos on youtube.com but they wanted to save other flash videos on their hard drive or USB drive. At first this can be frustrating if you don't understand what is going on. So I decided to download them the hard way. For the faint-of-heart, you can scroll all the way to the bottom of the article for the easy way to download flash video and audio files.    Why do this the hard way?  First I wanted to understand why it was less than straight forward to do. I understand why proprietary software developers are scared right now. Software is slowly moving to Internet applications. As most of you know, the Internet is wide open, even SSH and SSL to some degree.    With youtube.com, Google video and some of the more popular video sites you can download and install software to automatically grab the video or audio flash file. However, I had a lot of time on my hands and there are many sites where a video downloader does not work for the particular site.    If you find doing it yourself interesting then here's one way to download flash video files. Keep in mind this only works with embedded flash video or audio streams.
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TechWeb - Creators behind the Internet video phenomenon Lonelygirl15 say they rely on open source technology and they are using it to explore bold possibilities in storytelling.
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When looking for love  online, eight out of 10 people lie about their appearance but  only by making themselves an inch or so taller or trimming a  few pounds, according to a survey of Internet daters.
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Not getting any online dates? Maybe itâs time for an online makeover.