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POST -- Dec 20 -- Technological dating has finally spun out of control
and there is now a movement under way -- by both large companies and
two-geeks-in-a-basement-start-ups -- to turn our cell phones into
matchmakers. Mobile dating is already more popular than Internet
dating in places like Japan. All you need to post a profile and picture
on Webdate, the mobile dating leader, is a Web-ready camera phone and $3.99 a month. Then there's Dodgeball,
a service where users make a list of "crushes" based on online
pictures. Then, when they go out to the bars, they send "check-in" text
messages to Dodgeball to find out if a Crush has checked in from
another bar nearby. If so, the crush instantly receives a picture and
profile of the admirer via cell. Zogoenables users to search through profiles and then speak over the phone
through a service that doesn't reveal their numbers. Bluetooth
dating is known as "toothing", "bluejacking" and "snarfing". It enables
your phone to detect singles currently in the neighborhood.
SMSGenie is a mobile dating program with no pictures and no profiles,
just random texts sent to you from random women and men. 6
million Americans reportedly mobile-date. FULL ARTICLE @ COURIER POST ONLINE

Mark Brooks: Location Based Services could lead to a significant paradigm shift in online dating eventually.