Dating 3.0

Lifestyle & Leisure Published on 19 October 2006 in Lifestyle & Leisure

Nothing seems to inspire innovators more than online dating. Adding to the plethora of new dating concepts, South-African yesnomayB is the world’s first dating site relying on collaborative filtering. The site makes recommendations to members on other members they might fancy.

This is how it works: as a user, you look at pictures of other members, and select yes, no, or mayB. Your favourites are put into your own private 'blackbook', while yesnomayB then secretly puts your picture in front of those people, to see if they like you too. If they do, the site will let you know, and contact may be made. yesnomayB signed up 6000 members in its first three months in South Africa alone, and is live in other English speaking countries.

A nice mix of 'hot or not', twinsumerism, social networking and some other 2.0 trends, this one feels ready to run with for entrepreneurs and big brands alike. yesnomayB is looking for partners, and the site is set up as a white label, tool.

Website: www.yesnomayB.com
Contact: amanda@yesnomayB.com

Comments on this idea:

what kind of partners are they looking for, and how could I get more infor?

Thanks

todavía hay hueco en el mundo del dating que tanto me gusta....

Since year 2000 this nearly exact princicple is available in Germany under www.angesagter.de
So that's just another website of this princicple...nothing new at all :(

Hi Claudio -- To get more info, please contact Amanda Tsinonis at amanda@yesnomayB.com.

Best,

Hi Christoph -- Thanks for your insight. Angesagter.de seems a bit different, though. More of a 'hot or not', it doesn't look like a dating service that uses collaborative filtering in combination with a slick user interface.

This seems similar to the "Mutual Match" feature at LoveHappens (www.lovehappens.com). Though that doesn't use collaborative filtering though, I don't think.

and if you find yourself on a date with someone whose picture didn't match their profile, you can always get an alibi to leave with mobilealibi.com

i would like to join immediately,and meet new members,i bert thats fun.hoping to meet nice people soon.

its a good idea i have liked it

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