| ViewDate.com Announces World's First Online Speed Dating Service
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewDate, the world's first website to offer online speed dating services, today announced another free invitation-only dating session on its revolutionary website, http://www.viewdate.com Connie Jinq, ViewDate's founder, started ViewDate after hearing feedback from frustrated friends who had tried traditional speed dates and online dating. Both seemed promising, but fundamentally flawed. Ms. Jinq realized that these flaws could make meaningful relationships difficult to foster. With the help of her fiancee and friends, ViewDate was created to address these flaws and make to online dating a more personal, enjoyable experience. ViewDate allows users to see and speak to each other in real time over the Internet, and a full-fledged profile, search and messaging system lets them keep in touch between events.
For Latino Catholics, rituals provides lessons on faith, family - and ...
On the day she is to become a woman, Monica Reyes sits in front of the church for Mass. Her white dress - sewn in her mother's Mexican hometown - spills over her chair like an oversized lampshade. The priest urges her to live as a daughter of God. Her parents give her a gold ring shaped like the number 15. Near the end of the service, Reyes lays a bouquet of roses before a statue of the Virgin Mary. Then she steps through the worn, wooden doors of St. Josephs, a Roman Catholic parish for generations of poor, Hispanic immigrants, and into a 20-seat white Hummer limo that rents for $150 an hour. Before long, a stretch Lincoln Town Car arrives for the next Quinceaera Mass. An elaborate coming-of-age ritual for Hispanic girls on their 15th birthday, the Quinceaera has long been divisive in the U.S.
Dating and the battle of the bulge
(This is such a heavy subject it will take two columns to complete.) The holiday season is over, and for many of us the dieting season has begun. Since New Years Day, we have stepped on our scales and recoiled in terror as the little red line on the display edged ever so slowly into virgin territory. Lets face it, almost all of us have added 5-10 extra pounds since Thanksgiving, when we rationalized OK, its the holiday season, so what the heck, Ill have another serving of turkey and stuffing, and sure, throw a scoop of ice cream on my second slice of apple pie. And so this week we are making New Years resolutions to drop those extra pounds and, while we are at it, maybe try and shed some or all of the other 10, 20, 50 or more pounds that have been creeping onto our stomachs, hips, and butts over the years and decades.
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
German media group Bertelsmann plans a return to the internet and is looking at transforming its Direct Group of book, CD and DVD clubs into an internet networking scene for older people. The company believes that Direct Group can turn its aging customer base of around 35 million to its advantage by changing its traditional clubs into internet communities of like-minded people united by their similar cultural interests. "People are getting older... and older people are getting lonelier and they will need communities where they can share their interests," chief executive Gunter Thielen told Reuters in a recent interview. Thielen said Bertelsmann had been studying the demographic trends of the Western world, which point to a future with aging populations, many of them likely to have no or few children and larger disposable incomes than before.
Beliefnet launches social-networking site
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Beliefnet has launched a social-networking service intended to bring together religious devotees, spiritual leaders and faith groups, the U.S. Web site said. The idea behind Beliefnet Community is to provide a forum for connecting religious individuals and groups, or those seeking spiritual inspiration, through social-networking tools common in sites such as MySpace and Facebook, Beliefnet said. An estimated 82 million people in the United States, or 64 percent of U.S. Internet users, perform spiritual and religious activities online, a 2004 Pew Internet & American Life Project study found. "Social networks aren't just about dating or bands anymore; they've evolved into powerful and very real communities," Beliefnet.com Chief Executive Officer Steven Waldman said in a statement.
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