“Months later: another date, another guy, another technological incompatibility. This time she was out with someone who wanted to text . . . everyone. ‘He kept talking about Twitter.’ Fishkin rolls her eyes. ‘Ashton Kutcher. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter.’” Twitter. Twitter! Twitter.
More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford University for the past five years. Keely says, “I have been living my life online since 1993. Prior to [...]
Film critic Karina Longworth has an early review on this doc about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, & the webcam phenom he drove with “We Live In Public”: “Harris and his girlfriend Tanya moved into a loft outfitted with motion control cameras in every room, broadcasting their relationship 24 hours a day to an audience of eager [...]
Condensed and sorted state-by-state: craigslist Missed Connections USA. Separate maps were made for w4m, m4w, w4w, and m4m. (via Metafilter)
At the online archive of The Museum of Broken Relationships, users/artists may upload photos, emails, and texts from lovers past, with an option to lock these messages until they have mended enough to share them with others. A physical museum has launched in Singapore, and will be traveling the world with its relics — cell [...]
That? That was the shiver of agreeing with Valleywag for this tip: 2007′s standout flirting-for-nerds site iminlikewithyou, in trying to adopt web video’s hotness, has jumped its own rainbow-striped shark. Where the limited interface and smarts required to seduce well with it once drew out the best in commitment-free wit, the rapid-fire comments users can [...]
No, it doesn’t make you pathetic. Please. Even at our worst, Sexerati is just not that judgy. But seriously, I cannot describe my identity (hint, actually, that can be a hard question) & desire with a series of pulldown menus: And nor can I find satisfying answers even after a never-ending flood of questions. Scientific [...]
Name that year, kiddos: The area has sprouted computer-themed art galleries, a billiard hall and a Gold’s Gym, where former geeks can acquire new muscles to match their beefed-up social status. There is even “Gulch Gossip,” a column in a local computer magazine. Its author, who writes under the name Jonathan E., says, “My attitude [...]
Everybody’s former internet-boyfriend ze frank, who was there for us every day until not too long ago, wakes us up this morning with this self-portrait of a love song… “and omg i would luv that picture of you taking a picture of you holding the camera for me in the bathroom mirror…” I’m not the [...]
Says Valleywag’s Megan McCarthy: “…if [Star editor-at-large Julia Allison's presence at TechCrunch9] is any indication, people outside of our little sphere are starting to pay attention, again, to the exuberance bubbling underneath Silicon Valley. The women who are about to invade the Valley are not the same gold-diggers as before, only out for that stock-option [...]