Tobii’s Eye-Tracking Tech Knows What You’re Eyeing on Dating Sites

Men like pictures; women like text. You don’t say.
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SteelHouse Raises $6.3 Million to Be the eHarmony of E-Commerce

SteelHouse has raised a second round of funding, totaling $6.3 million, to build an e-commerce platform tailored to each shopper’s individual personality.
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The $100M Revenue Club: EHarmony Captures Hearts Of VCs

EHarmony Inc. may not be the trendiest or flashiest dating Web site out there, but it has steadily grown to become a big piece of the online dating space. The company has done this by bucking the trends, both when it was founded during the dot-com bubble–when a slew of companies launched to marry the power of the Internet with the age-old desire to meet Mr. or Ms. Right–and more recently, when a new crop of sites has focused on casual dating through features such as social networking or video chat.

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Comparing the eHarmony and Match.com Experiences

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a new study examining Match.com and eHarmony suggests that both have their faults. Catalyst Group, a New York usability-research firm, reviewed the two popular dating sites with an eye toward how they walk customers through profiles, finding matches and making contact.

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You'd Think He'd Be Afraid of Matches!

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Sharks, Jets, Page Views: “Web Site Story”

Are College Humor fans also big Leonard Bernstein fans? Time to find out. And just to help folks find the clip, here’s the latest from Ricky Van Veen and company, in which they name-check Twitter, Facebook, Pandora and gaggle of the Web’s favorite brands.
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Weekend Update, 4.19.09

A look back at the week during which approximately 40 percent of the posts were about Twitter. Or at least it seemed that way. BoomTown got the ball rolling by making a visit to Twitter HQ bearing pies. During a video tour of the premises, Biz Stone discussed rock stars and booze, and spilled the secret of the strange green deer.
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Finally, a Reason to Bring a Little More Lindsanity to BoomTown

Whatever her personal turmoil, troubled actress Lindsay Lohan–aka Lindsanity–has been the patron saint of the Web’s gossip sites, as well as magazines and more, most recently for the spectacular and restraining-orders-all-around breakup she has had with DJ Samantha Ronson. So where did Lohan go to get some control of the crazed situation back? Why the Internet, of course, with a pretty funny video of a spoof of an eHarmony online dating ad that is now a big hit on the comedy Web site, Funny or Die.
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