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You probably don’t want to meet someone who is talking like their brain has temporarily taken a vacation. You take that chance if you meet someone online, and/or through a dating website. There are some dating sites that aren’t quite on the up-and-up. Some of them want your credit card before you can even create a profile for yourself. That, to me, seems to be not-so-legit. You have to be wary of the type of site you choose to look for your future love on.

You want a good online dating experience, right? You might remember the interview we did with Kevin Carmony a few months ago. That conversation was mostly about Linux, but we did discuss his newest project, as well. Kevin is the CEO of Dating DNA, which is what I wanted to talk to you about today.

Dating DNA is the Internet’s central nervous system for online dating. Its patented technology encapsulates all your dating information into a single 9-digit number (i.e. 254-736-844), allowing you to privately integrate all your dating information across the Internet’s social graph. Dating DNA lets you generate 1-click compatibility scores with millions of other people at websites such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Craigslist, and hundreds more.

Every day, more and more people are using social networking sites to find new people to date. Utilizing these sites is free, and provides a more natural way of meeting people than traditional dating sites. Dating DNA is the first service to address this trend, by bringing the convenience of sophisticated matching tools to these new social networking avenues.

Dating DNA is honestly a 100% free site! When you fill out your profile, you are creating your DNA… unique information about you. You are given a pin number. Other people who may be interested in you can put in your pin number, and find out how well you match up to each other, based on the answers you have given. This is certainly different than what you are likely used to, which is a good thing!

They’ve made this as clean and easy as it can possibly be. It’s even fun to fill your information in, and check out other people. There aren’t even any ads on the site, which is a relief! Go check out the site, browse some ads, and found out what your Dating DNA is today.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Ponzi believe in online love and you should too.

PlentyOfFish.com is a free online dating site that has figured out to be cupid. A guy who knows how to write algorithms observed what people do and realized that listening to what people want may not be the best thing for them. So, he looks at what people actually click on – what they like – and recommends relationships based on their actions instead of what they directly input into a form.

Chris thinks you can fall in love with the idea of a person online, but that spark isn’t really there until you meet them in real life and get to know them face to face.

What do you think of online love? Can you really fall in love online?

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Guy would never hire me. And you know what? I’m fine with that. I stayed up all last night crying my eyes out – wondering why Mr. Kawasaki never talks about my chest. Today, those prayers were answered in tip #11 of Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn’t Know Who to Ask:

Confess your sins. If you did something stupid in your past, the company will find out, so it’s better if it finds out from you rather than from a search on the Internet. A tech entrepreneur once told me how he rented out his chest as a billboard and made $2,500 (it’s a long story). A woman that he met on Match.com found this out, and it was an issue. If a date can find this stuff from your past, you can bet an interviewer will. Hopefully, this makes you think twice about the stupid things you’re tempted do on MySpace.

Yes, it was stupid – but I refuse to take my chest off the Internet until someone pays me a million dollars to do it. Guess we’ll just have to live with the horror, eh? Guy is right about thinking twice before you put something (anything) online. Wanna know the truth? There’s a happy ending. I started renting my chest years before Ponzi and I met.

She found my profile on Match.com late one night and sent me a response almost immediately. It took me a day to get back to her, but I was sure to pass along my AIM handle for quicker correspondence. It wasn’t too long before we started to blast messages back and forth on IM. Within the first ten minutes, she asked an innocent question:

You don’t have any naked pictures of your chest online, do you?

WTF?! Did she know me? I really didn’t want to date someone who watched me on TechTV, read Lockergnome, etc. She asked this question because (apparently) a lot of guys upload “studly” photos of their greased-up chests to dating sites. I, however, didn’t realize this – as I never peruse male profiles. To her query, I responded:

Do you know who I am? :)

Now, Ponzi took this question differently than the way I intended – as if I was asking: “DON’T you know who I am?” She said she didn’t know who I was, and so I sent her a link to RentMyChest.com. If she didn’t laugh, I’d have to throw her back into the sea. Long story short: we met the next day and have been with each other ever since.

If someone doesn’t like my chest, then I don’t need them in my life. Guy referenced my chest without naming me, specifically – but I’ve had ten friends send me the link in the past half hour. Are there really that many tech entrepreneurs renting their chests online?! I think Guy was afraid his Technorati ranking would dip if he made the correlation. No matter, I’ve cleared about $10k with my chest so far – and that number is steadily climbing. Not so stupid, eh?

Oh, by the way: Guy might be speaking at the next Gnomedex…

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