"None of this information is personally identifiable, " said OKCupid's chief executive officer, Sam Yagan.
"I probably think about 'Star Wars' more than anyone should, " Lawson wrote in her OKCupid profile.
And there are millions of users on Match, JDate, OKCupid, and a host of other sites.
In fact, from this point of view Kickstarter is more like OKCupid than Amazon.
What should I keep in mind when writing a message to a girl on OkCupid?
And we had a dating product (unrelated to OkCupid) at SparkMatch.com, which was short-lived.
OkCupid even offers certain privacy measures, letting users hide their profiles from categories of other users.
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She met Mr. Valle through an online dating program called OkCupid, in 2009.
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Some sites such as OkCupid and Plentyoffish are free to join and make most of their money from advertising.
But I could see this site being useful if it partnered with OkCupid, Match, EHarmony, or some other dating site.
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OKCupid has had a 60 percent rise in activity since last year, while Match.com has seen a 17% increase in membership.
Now that Match.com, OKCupid, and EHarmony have standardized the process of dating online, perhaps we do need a site to machinize the break-up process.
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Beyond clever headlines, OkCupid also uses an unusual pedigree to separate itself from the dating site pack: The business was founded by four Harvard-educated mathematicians.
So they can figure out that your (real-name) Facebook account, and your pseudonymous OkCupid, Forbes, and RottenTomatoes accounts all belong to the same person.
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OkCupid's Mr Yagan argues that the size of the fee that most paid sites charge is not big enough to act as an effective filter.
Many of us have become comfortable putting ourselves out there publicly in the hopes of making connections with friends and with strangers, whether through Facebook, Twitter, or OKCupid.
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Mobile adds a new revealed preferences dimension for OkCupid.
's OKCupid.com, a dating site. eBay Inc.
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In contrast, on a whim at OkCupid, if we wanted to know whether our users had ever done thing X with a Y on hand while thinking about Z, we could get a few hundred thousand answers in a couple days.
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