{"id":716,"date":"2009-10-10T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2016-06-07T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:11:07","slug":"online-dating-social-network-gelato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/online-dating-social-network-gelato\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networking Meets Online Dating at Gelato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online dating site Gelato is fast becoming the Facebook &amp; Twitter of singles sites.<\/p>\n<p>Gelato mixes social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and others with real-time search into it&#8217;s online dating site to give people a new way to find a date.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind Gelato&#8217;s social dating 2.0 site is to give people insights into a potential date by allowing them to search for people based on their Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, Flickr pictures etc.<\/p>\n<p>Gelato users simply sign up for an account and connect it to their Facebook or Twitter profiles, then users answer some typical demographic questions common on dating sites like: relationship status, relationship interests, ethnicity, religion, politics etc.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting mix to this new online dating site is users can then link a number of their other social networking and Web 2.0 accounts to Gelato, including: Netflix, Hulu, Flickr, Amazon, Pandora, and Last.fm.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, people can specify public or restricted access to their network activity and updates on Gelato. All of your profile updates on the linked sites will appear in your Gelato &#8220;lifestream&#8221;. This personal information and potential date bait is then searchable by other Gelato users &#8211; as long as you have approved your feeds for public viewing.<\/p>\n<p>Gelato users can then search Gelato for recent profile updates on any topic from entertainment to politics to find a like-minded mate or ( since opposites attract ) someone with totally different views and interests.<\/p>\n<p>However, the only people you will find through a Gelato search will be other Gelato members who have agreed to open their social network updates and Web 2.0 feeds to the public.<\/p>\n<p>If you are comfortable with allowing Gelato&#8217;s online dating site access to your Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Hulu updates and feeds and other profile information, then Gelato may be a good option for finding your next date.<\/p>\n<p>A real-time dating and love search. What will they think of next.<\/p>\n<p>You can visit the Gelato online dating site @ <a href=\"http:\/\/ge.la.to\/\">ge.la.to<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/blogs\/patterson\/57802\/gelatoonline-dating-plus-a-dash-of-facebooka-pinch-of-twitter\/\">Yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online dating site Gelato is fast becoming the Facebook &amp; Twitter of singles sites. Gelato mixes social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and others with real-time search into it&#8217;s online dating site to give people a new way to find a date. The idea behind Gelato&#8217;s social dating 2.0 site is to give people [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/online-dating-social-network-gelato\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Social Networking Meets Online Dating at Gelato<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}