| Penthouse Purchases Various, Inc., Sale Includes Bondage.com
"San Francisco-based Bondage.com was founded in 1996 to deliver an exciting, educational, and erotic experience to BDSM devotees and the curious. The free site features photos of members, stories, columns on topics relating to Bondage, Fetish, BDSM, personals ads and active chat rooms. The company has developed advanced technology to deliver a unique adult internet experience. Various plans to run Bondage.com as a completely separate site to preserve it's unique chemistry and community." In this latest acquisition, Penthouse purchased Various, Inc. for an approximate $500 Million USD. Included in the sale is over 25 social networking sites, including Bondage.com, Alt.com, Adultfriendfinder.com, Gradfinder.com and Bigchuch.com, etc. Current plans by Penthouse are to retain all sites previously owned by Various, Inc.
Beware Yahoo Personals’ deceptive billing policy
You might be wondering what a post like this is doing on a blog largely about VoIP, but bear with me. To some extent, this post is about VoIP. And athough I try not to air my consumer grievances here, I am writing this post to warn you about a practice that your knowledge of can save you some dollars. OK, first let us go back a year. My love life, my dating life, was in a rough patch. (If you want details, you buy the next pitcher). Not wanting to remain in the state I just referred to, I decided I would declare a jihad on loneliness. Being a creature of the Internet, I posted a profile on several dating sites including Yahoo! Personals. My Match.com profile soon led to a happy result. That's her photo on the top of my CPU tower. As soon as the ultimately "happy result" became quantifiable, I let my Yahoo! Personals account lapse.
AOL Personals – Zogby Poll Probes American Views on Love and ...
Dulles, Va. and Utica, New York. More than 4 in 10 Americans (44%), including 50% in their 20s dont believe that they need to be married to validate the commitment of a long-term relationship, according to a survey from AOL Personals (http://personals.aol.com) and Zogby*. This is just one of the many findings from a new interactive survey of Americans age 20 to 69 that tackles how different generations view a wide range of relationship issues from love to soul mates, money and trust. While many dont believe marriage is the ultimate symbol of commitment, there are significant differences among older and younger adults regarding how they view dating while nearly half of Americans said they would date someone who is not interested in a long-term relationship, older adults tend to be more open to dating without fixating on how long a relationship might last.
Jangl Selects Level 3 to Support Voice Platform
BOSTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that Jangl is leveraging Level 3's wholesale voice and data services to provide converged communications to its customers by offering integrated wireline/wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Distributed directly to consumers at Jangl.com and through partnerships with leaders in social networking, social media and online personals communities, Jangl's service is a simple and easy-to-use way to let people initiate phone connections without sharing their personal information. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Level 3(R) is providing Local Inbound, Voice Termination, International Voice Termination, Toll Free, and High Speed IP (HSIP) services to Jangl. Level 3 hands off the call to Jangl's platform, enabling Jangl to assign a new number that provides a way for consumers to interact with one another without divulging personal information like private phone numbers.
How the 'clean factor' plays in relationships
It's no surprise to this self-proclaimed germ freak that, in the world of relationships, the "clean" factor weighs more than some may have thought. When Yahoo Personals and Clorox teamed up to do a survey about how cleanliness affects our love lives, they discovered some very interesting proclivities: -- Almost one-third of respondents found that when it comes to selecting a partner, a person's domestic cleaning habits are very important, and bad habits can be a deal breaker. -- More people would rather date a germ freak than a complete slob. -- Six out of 10 people consider cleaning compatibility to be as important as sharing common interests. -- Over one-third of respondents said their dates had to be both neat and clean, and the vast majority felt they had to be at least neat or clean.
SelectAlternatives AAN Papers See Double-Digit Revenue Growth
AAN papers using SelectAlternatives saw, on average, an 11.6 percent increase in revenues for October 2007 compared to October 2006. The twelve AAN newspapers that have been using the SelectAlternatives local personals/social networking system for at least one year are: The Stranger; Portland Mercury; Chicago Reader; Washington City Paper; Salt Lake City Weekly; Austin Chronicle; Nuvo; Charleston City Paper and Seven Days. Comparing October 2007 performance for the same papers to October 2006: Total gross revenues increased 11.6 percent. Of the group, Seven Days enjoyed the highest percentage growth in revenues (39.3 percent), followed closely by the Austin Chronicle (35.4 percent). Total new member profiles (ads) increased 17.2 percent.
Framingham police arrest two women in online prostitution sting
Police arrested and charged two women with prostitution at a local hotel on Monday, after officers found the pair's ad for sex posted on the Web site Craigslist.org. The arrest was made by an undercover officer, said Police Lt. Paul Shastany, after police responded to an ad for sexual services on Craigslist, which offers a wide range of postings for jobs, items for sale, personals and some advertising sexual services . "We do it from time to time, based on information we receive from the community as well as what the detectives learn from these investigations," said Shastany. Ester Mirian Reis, 24, of 2 Breck St., Milton, and Ashley Lynn Walser, 23, of 263 Fuller St., Dorchester, were arrested and charged with prostitution early Monday morning, said Shastany.
Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta
Yahoo Messenger allows you to see when friends are online and you can send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have an upcoming meeting recorded in Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support; a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made; the ability to save and print your conversations; and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and sports scores. Other features include the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends even if they're not online when you are, a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and the Online Presence, a small HTML button you can put on your Web site to allow your Yahoo buddies to instantly see if you are currently online, and voice chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet.
Whither Shakespeare? He's backeth, baby!
Lots of famous people are on MySpace. But a good number of them are long dead. Every dead poet, philosopher, artist and past president you can think of has a MySpace page -- and many are presented in the first person, as if Thomas Edison and Joan of Arc are lounging at home in their pajamas, posting pictures and updating their blogs. Benjamin Franklin recommends that his visitors read a bio that's posted on the site. "Maybe," he writes, "it will help people realize that flying a freakin' kite wasn't my greatest accomplishment." Charles Darwin has gotten tired of people spamming his page. So he'll be approving comments before they're posted, thanks. And George Washington asks us: "Who rocked the revolution? ... That's right, I did." The Internet can bridge distances, bringing people together across continents.
Asian hate column sparks demonstration
The protestors are the ideological heirs to the legacy of the book-burning Hitler Youth of 1933. Further, how does a satiric op-ed piece merit the headline above the story? Looks like some people in the Rocky Mtn. Newsroom need some 1st amendment sensitivity training. .
Parties signal axe over spare channel
So I think it would be appropriate for me to look at it as a part of a re-elected government ... to ensure it's not going to be more broadly defined than the legislation intended," she said. "We don't want to eliminate things that are interesting, but I do reiterate our original view that it's not going to be a look-alike fourth channel by stealth." Senator Conroy agreed. "If ACMA has a broader definition than parliament intended itwould be a matter of concern," he said. ACMA spokesman Donald Robertson said the legislation prevented him from revealing how many section 21 applications had been received. He said ACMA's opinion would be published only "when the service about which the opinion has been sought has commenced".
Of habits and relationships
A fashionable lady, high on charm and social etiquette (habit?) ended her relationship because her lover was in the habit of blowing his nose every morning.
Sugar-coated habit
But over time with uncharacteristic magnanimity, forgiven him for his other harmless habit of passing wind! Ladies, please let us lie under our quilt of quirks! No habit manifests itself more openly than our eating habits. Any dietician will tell you that the body needs about 2000 calories per day to stay healthy. So where do we ration the cheeseburgers, butter naans, samosas, chaats, biryanis and the midnight tubs of ice cream? It's all clued-in to that great craving called ‘habit'. What's a sweet tooth, if not a sugar-coated habit? Our landscape would be bereft of the ‘walla brothers' (bhel, chaat, pani puri and gola), if it wasn't for our evolved gastronomic habits.
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