Wusoup seems like a cool and different way to make non-creepy friends online
Just discovered Wusoup via Reddit. Wusoup helps you meet new friends and avoid creeps. The creator is Peter Taoussanis and rather than me doing a half-baked description of the unique way Wusoup works, if you want to learn more check out the Wusoup home page and Peter’s original Reddit post.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on July 7th, 2011 | Categorized as Fun, News
Missed Connections Update Latest
Realised that I’ve not posted for a while, so thought it best to let you know that the site is alive and kicking and reconnecting people.
As always, keep posting your missed connections, subscribe to e-mail (or RSS) alerts for your neighbourhood, and keep your fingers crossed and you might be one of the lucky ones that gets to reconnect.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on January 26th, 2011 | Categorized as Site news
How To Have Your Worst Date Ever – MyVeryWorstDate.com
This post is part of the MissedConnections.com Featured Blog Series. We hope the featured blogs will appeal to a good few of you and please note, this is not a sponsored feature, we decide who we want to feature by checking out up and coming and long established sites that we believe offer something special you can’t find anywhere else.
My Very Worst Date (MyVeryWorstDate.com) is a collection of the World’s most memorable dating disaster stories or in the blog’s own words “a commiseration of the moments when the sweet possibilities of romance turn into a sour struggle to get the hell out of the situation”.
Victoria and Jessica, the founders of My Very Worst Date, kindly agreed to answer a few questions and donate some of the knowledge they’ve learned on avoiding/creating the worst date ever.
What is the most popular post and do you have any personal favorites on My Very Worst Date?
We have so many that we have a “Best of” page. For pure craziness, we do love the guy who sends a text message with a picture of his “bits” to his date from the bathroom during their date. The full hilarity of the tale can be read here: Picture Imperfect. We also can’t get enough of the Bachelorette Parties story where a couple goes on a date to a bar and a wild bachelorette party arrives. The bride gets hammered and takes her top off. The guy on the date is clearly seduced and takes the bride to the bathroom for a quickie while his date just sits there.
Are there any of your own stories that you’ve contributed to the site?
Yes, we’ve both contributed a few. In keeping with the site’s anonymous submission policy, however, we couldn’t possibly blow our covers.
What dating tips can be learned from My Very Worst Date?
A majority of MVWDs happen because of poor communication. This includes lying on online dating profiles and not knowing when to speak up and call it a night on a date that’s clearly going awry. Now we understand that the dating war is fraught with anxiety and fear but we suggest a policy of honesty. If you’re overweight, don’t reveal that you’re “average” built. Just own it and be yourself. Your future prince/ss has got to love you for you. Similarly, it becomes clear that your date is not progressing smoothly (say perhaps it’s not moving from the parking lot of the local Walmart) or if your date is displaying some severely problematic behavior (such as revealing homophobic or racist attitudes or both), bow out of the situation as graciously as you can. If that fails, do what you can to run!
Can you suggest some surefire things someone can do on a date to become a subject of a My Very Worst Date post?
For starters: lying, severe intoxication, over sharing and making “moves” way too soon. Of course, some MVWDs are a result of things beyond anyone’s control–such as sudden projectile vomit. It’s worth noting that MVWDs can have happy endings. This woman spat beer and mash over her date twice, ruined his prized shirt but ended up marrying him: Stitches, Mash and Then Some…
What/Who are you favorite blogs/bloggers?
We love Gawker, Jezebel, Passive Aggressive Notes, STFU Marrieds, STFU Parents and Post Secret.
A big thank you to Jessica and Victoria for their time answering these questions. Visit My Very Worst Date for the latest dating disaster stories (and if you like My Very Worst Date you might also like Jessica’s and Victoria’s other sites My Very Worst Job and My Very Worst Roommate).
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on May 18th, 2010 | Categorized as Advice, Features, Fun
Missed Connections Links 14th May 2010
Missed Connections Live is a web series inspired by real life missed connection ads. The show’s creator, Melissa Center, has started a Kickstarter campaign to help grow the show and produce more episodes. Missed Connections Live on Kickstarter.
Timomcthompson has come up with an enhancement to Craigslist missed connections.
Missed Connections poetry consists of taking missed connections posts rearranged into poems.
Sophie Blackall’s latest missed connection illustrations.
There have been two missed connections related films released in the last month or so. There was Missed Connections by Chris Presswell which was blogged about here a few weeks ago. Also worth checking out is the web site for Missed Connections, a documentary by Mary Robertson. You can find more details at www.youmissedme.com and watch the trailer below.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on May 14th, 2010 | Categorized as News
“Why I stuck your USB flash drive up there” girl responds to best ever missed connection
There’s been a Philly missed connection lighting up the web as contender for best missed connection ever, maybe you’ve seen it, the title gives you a good idea of what to expect, You stuck my flash drive in your vagina, you can find the full details at Gizmodo.
Someone wishing to remain anonymous emailed the MissedConnections.com blog saying we’d all do well to remember there’s two sides to every story, suggesting the original missed connection poster is being unfair by not mentioning his USB flash drive has a novelty nature that is hard to resist. The email included the following attachment:
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on April 22nd, 2010 | Categorized as Craigslist, Fun, News
New Missed Connections film shows what happens when you reply to every ad
MISSED CONNECTIONS is a pessimistic romantic comedy about Jamie, a misanthropic loser who becomes obsessed with a London newspaper’s Missed Connections column, in which lovestruck singles attempt to find a stranger who caught their eye the previous day, but failed to talk to. Upon realising the unlikelihood of any of its contributors finding their soulmate, he hatches a plan in a moment of cynical genius; he starts replying to all of them.
The film will be included as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner, which runs from May 12th-22nd. The film will also have a free public screening as part of Cannes in a Van, a mobile cinema parked along the city’s Croisette, on May 15th at 9:30pm, for which the Director Chris Presswell and a selection of cast and crew will be in attendance.
For more information on the film and screenings see http://www.papersunfilms.co.uk/missedconnections
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on April 20th, 2010 | Categorized as Art, Film, News
Missed Connections Links – 15th April 2010
Sophie Blackall’s Unbelievable Moustache on the C illustration — and if you like moustaches you might like Moustache-blog
Missed Connections Live Episode 8: Fat F@#K
Sharon wondered on the blossom blog about missed connections and how they work out which I’ve answered in the comments
Our new missed connections site for Omegle
Two new facebook fan pages I’m addicted to missed connections and Someone wrote a missed connection ad for me!?!
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on April 15th, 2010 | Categorized as News
The $1 Advertising Experiment: A buck for 250,000 views of your ad on MissedConnections.com
Is $1 for 250,000 views of a *huge* advert for your brand something that might interest you? MissedConnections.com will soon be starting an experiment in advertising that you might like.
For those of you coming to MissedConnections.com for the first time, welcome, my name is Eliot Sykes and I’m the site developer/founder.
Although MissedConnections.com has been established as one of the top missed connections destinations on the web for a while now, I only started working full time on the site late 2009 and since then to the end of March 2010 the site traffic has tripled and continues to grow while the site keeps working at its goal of reconnecting the thousands of people who post here every month.
To continue this trend I’m going to carry on working on the site full time, however, MissedConnections.com is self-funded and to keep up the good work funding will eventually have to come from a different source.
The source is likely to be a combination of donations and advertising.
For advertising, I’m looking to work directly with advertisers. I prefer a personal approach over going through a faceless ad exchange – I think it is going to be simpler to manage and a better deal for us and for advertisers.
To begin with, to dip our toes lightly in the advertising waters, we will shortly kick off an experiment that you can be a part of.
The experiment will involve an (almost) original and MASSIVE ad unit (more details to come in a follow-up blog post) which could be yours for $1 for 250,000 views (that’s the same as 0.4 cents CPM).
Without giving away all the details of the experiment yet, the price will be decided in auction with the starting price being $1. So if only one advertiser wants to be part of the experiment (a distinct possibility), they’ll get the 250,000 impressions for $1. I’m expecting a bit of interest, so with some luck the price will get up to the $5 to $15 range. I’m not intending to bring in huge amounts of cash with this clearly, I’m just hoping to start good open relationships with potential advertisers.
You cannot find this type of ad unit on many sites due to the technical restraints of advertising providers, thankfully we don’t have that problem. Due to the size and display of this ad unit, I have high hopes for the levels of clickthroughs it will generate. I’ll demo the ad unit in the next blog post about the experiment.
So, I’m working on getting the experiment ready to go. If you want to be involved or just watch from the sidelines, email eliot@missedconnections.com with “$1 Ad Experiment” as the subject and I’ll keep you updated. More info coming soon on this blog…
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on April 12th, 2010 | Categorized as Advertising, Site news
Omegle Missed Connections now on MissedConnections.com!
I’ve just been looking through our logs and noticed we’ve been getting enough Omegle missed connections that it deserves its own mini site just like Chatroulette Missed Connections has.
So if you have a missed connection on Omegle, be sure to add it on Omegle Missed Connections at http://omegle.missedconnections.com.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on April 11th, 2010 | Categorized as Advice, News, Site news
Featured Blog: Single Gal In The City
Welcome to the first of a new series on MissedConnections.com where we will be regularly featuring a unique blog throughout our site. We hope the featured blogs will appeal to a good few of you and please note, this is not a sponsored feature, we decide who we want to feature by checking out up and coming and long established sites that we believe offer something special you can’t find anywhere else!
Melissa Braverman kindly agreed to be our first featured blogger and we hope you like her as much as we do — she writes Single Gal In the City, and in early March she started The Great Dating Blitz, an 8 week dating tour across the US. We asked Melissa a few questions, including how the tour is going, where you can find the best bits on her blog and who her favorite bloggers are:
How did you have the idea to do the Great Dating Blitz? How did you decide to go for it? What’s it been like organising it?
The idea came to me in December, when I was feeling disenchanted with the New York dating scene. I had gone out with a guy a handful of times and then he disappeared for a week without any contact. Though he eventually resurfaced, the episode got me to thinking — what is dating like in other cities?
Once I decided to do the trip, I knew I wanted to give it 100% of my time and energy, so I left my public relations job of five years. Organizing the trip has been a full time job, and I couldn’t have done it without the support of my home away from home on the road, Marriott Hotels & Resorts. Their properties are ideally situated for exploring the single scene in each of my destinations, and their staff members have done a great job of giving me the inside scoop on dating in the various cities.
I’ve lined up most of my dates and single gal interviews through email and social media. Still looking for bachelors and bachelorettes to connect with in Denver and Portland, so if anyone has any referrals, email me at SingleGalInTheCity@gmail.com!
How have your dates reacted to being part of The Great Dating Blitz so far?
My dates have reacted really well to being part of this. They’ve been curious about the project, and also very open and candid about their own dating ups and downs. What I’ve found so far is that all of the guys can identify with the challenge of making a real connection — and so they get why I’ve decided to broaden my search beyond the Big Apple.
Can you say which city is leading the vote for your final mystery city in The Great Dating Blitz? Any secret favorite city you want to win? (Melissa has asked her readers to decide what city to end the tour at)
Miami and San Francisco are in a dead heat. I would love to go to San Fran since I’ve never been there, but Miami’s a great town. I think my readers want me to wrap up the blitz in Miami so I can party like a rockstar!
What would be one of the greatest dates someone could take you on?
It’s funny because one of my readers recently posted a comment criticizing my dates for taking me to dinner instead of planning something more “adventurous”. For me, though, there’s nothing better than a great meal and equally great conversation. Also high on my list is visiting a unique local attraction. My best date so far was an afternoon at Cleveland’s Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. So much to explore there and so much fun because I was in the company of someone really special.
Is there anything you’d like to say to MissedConnections.com visitors who are thinking about reading your blog for the first time? What posts should they read for a good introduction to Single Gal In The City?
If you’re reading my blog for the first time, I would say go back to the very first post for a good introduction. Other key posts — Being Happy About Being Single, The Value of Mr. Right For Now and any Opening The Vault posts (Opening The Vault posts are taken from the staggering 95 diaries Melissa has kept since the age of 7).
The Great Dating Blitz notwithstanding, I think what sets my blog apart is that it’s about more than dating and relationships — it’s a celebration of being a Single Gal In The City. I write about everything from concerts and theater to nightlife and charity events, because I’m a big believer in taking advantage of everything my hometown has to offer.
What are the most popular posts on Single Gal In The City?
Some of the most popular/commented on posts have been The Great Dating Blitz Begins, In Defense of Courtship Rituals, and To Pay Or Not To Pay.
What blog post did you enjoy writing the most and/or means the most to you?
Of the 1,231 posts I’ve written, I would have to say the post that means the most to me is Love Lessons From My Parents. My parents taught me so much about true and lasting love, and their marriage was a great example of what goes into making an enduring and successful relationship. Their love remains a great inspiration to me, a reminder that happily ever after is attainable if you’re willing to do the work to make it happen.
Do you have any favourite bloggers?
Absolutely! Single City Guy and Simone Grant of Sex, Lies & Dating in the City are among the best when it comes to urban dating blogs. And through my trip, I connected with cleveland’s a plum. Not only is her blog a great celebration of Cleveland, but she’s just as much fun in real life. Kansas City’s Queen of Quirky is also a must read.
Have you ever had a missed connection?
Hmm. Not that I can think of.
Any other thoughts? Any questions you wish you got asked but never do?
I would just like to add that, when I embarked on my Great Dating Blitz, it was not with a predetermined outcome (i.e. finding Mr. Right) in mind. So many people asked me before I left — what if you meet someone in the middle of the trip? My response to that is, I am open to wherever this adventure takes me. I think if you’re going to make the most of a journey like this, you can’t have a specific set of expectations. The Great Dating Blitz, much like my entire approach to being single, is all about shaking up my routine and trying something different. Because amazing things can and happen whenever you do that.
You can visit Melissa’s blog and catch up with her latest news at Single Gal In The City.
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Link to post | Posted by Eliot on March 29th, 2010 | Categorized as Features
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