As with LinkedIn, dating-site profiles are constructed specifically to show one side of a personality.
Three days before launch, the site already had profiles of close to 1, 000 journalists, some more detailed than others.
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David Evans, the editor of Online Dating Insider, an industry blog, cites the example of a hypothetical site with 15m profiles in its database.
As of the end of next month all that will be left of the original site will be basic profiles and friend lists, i.e.
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Facebook users had to opt in to the feature by going to that site, otherwise their profiles would not appear in a list of people who are nearby.
After all, many leading British politicians now maintain profiles on the site, he points out.
The new metric counts the number of active profiles on dating site Match.
Yelp has 25 million total reviews and 66 million monthly visitors, along with 606, 000 businesses who have claimed profiles on the site.
Introduced in late February the plugin lets users comment on various sites using their Facebook profile, nixing the need to create new profiles on every site.
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But Facebook's initiative generally attracted scant attention from users mostly content to maintain their profiles on the site, while separately keeping their email services from providers such as Google Inc.
It will be a free site that uses algorithms to build profiles based on users' preexisting Web-crawling information.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google , the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
She decides which to give to based on their profiles, posted on the site.
The content can be targeted either to demographic profiles of audiences on a site, or can be targeted to context, such as matching a video with a blog post.
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The companies at the top of this scheme operate at times with such impunity that their executives are bold enough to have professional profiles on the business networking site LinkedIn.
The payoff for LinkedIn: With more reasons to visit the site, people are, indeed, updating profiles more.
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More than 40, 000 startups are actively using the site, and about 40 new companies add profiles each day.
YahooPersonals is accused of creating phony profiles and putting them up on the site to sort of make their clientele look a little sexier.
There is an entire economy of widgetmakers, and most of them are small, with some significant exceptions: YouTube was first adopted by MySpace members, who used the site's software to post videos on their profiles.
According to their profiles, 92% of males on the site are married or otherwise attached, as are 60% of female members.
We'll know soon enough what's going down, but user agent profiles recently published on Moto's own site detail two Android-powered devices -- model numbers MB200 and MB300 -- that feature UMTS (and very likely HSPA in some form), HVGA displays, and in the case of the MB300, probably a 5 megapixel cam considering a mention of 2592 x 1944 resolution.
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Like a dating site, Misstravel only provides a platform for people to create profiles and communicate.
Privacy is important on this site and users are not able to see who has viewed their profiles.
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After sharing profiles, photos, bedtimes and partying habits on the site, Wofford let students who hit it off become roommates.
But privacy activists are deeply unhappy with the site's decision to make more data from individuals' Facebook profiles available by default to anyone with access to the internet.
The recent round of Facebook rumors suggest that the site will start charging for membership as a result of the upcoming new profiles.
The profiles can be set up on device or on the Netflix site, with toggles for a preference to its Just for Kids menu UI, as well as asking a bit about your preferred movies to seed initial recommendations.
The Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK (Hero) site is the official portal to higher education, with a clickable map and profiles of all universities and higher education colleges.
The recently launched site prompts members to submit copies of government-issued identification and fill out detailed profiles and compatibility surveys to "share with other prospective parents who they are and how they think about parenting, " Mr. Spedale says.
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