Link to Most Popular removed

I've removed the link to the Most Popular page. Most Popular was really contributing nothing to dating and was a performance hindrance on my site. I encourage members to continue to rate one another. A members total ranking will determine where they appear in the sort order on the pages. I look at several factors, besides just someone's rating, but the more liked a member is, the higher they will appear in the sort order. I'll expound on this further in a future posting.

new ads showing in profiles

I've added a new spot for advertisements in member's profiles. Look here you'll see them immediatly to the right of the photos. I've tried to keep the advertisements as unobtrusive as possible. There are now video advertisements displaying on some of the pages. They are a nice change to the routine banner and text ads.

more photos in profiles

Everyone can now add up to eight photos in their profile!

preciouslove removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:
hello there i will like to be your friend nad i cherish you much.if intrested in me you can reply back to me.hope to hear from you soon.
NB:YOU CAN REPLY REPLY BACK ON THIS EMAIL..........cloudygirl007@yahoo.com

Uses e-mail address cloudygirl007@yahoo.com

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Olga82 removed, Russian scammer

Sample e-mail:
Hello!
You are interested me. And I hope that you are not against to get acquainted with me?
My name is Olga. I am 24 years old. I am from Russia. As for me, I am fair, kind, elegant, sensitive and romantic lady. I like travel, trips, flowers, children, good jokes and laugh. I like to read books. Being very romantical in heart and very optimistical person, I always hope for the best and I try to enjoy the positives sides of my life. I really like to express my feminity, care and tenderness to the person I love.
I am not seeking for a superman. I think that moral qualities make person beautiful. I am seeking a man with open soul, because I don’t like false people. I want to have family. I want to find a partner for the rest of my life, who’ll love and respect me and who’ll never betray me.
If you find pure and romantical relation, you may write me on my own e-mail: aolgalovely@yahoo.com
Write me, I’ll waiting for your letter.
Kisses, Olga.

Uses email address olgalove555@yahoo.com

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24 season 5 on DVD

I postponed watching 24 all season long until the 24 season 5 dvd came out just before Christmas. Now I can watch it straight through and (mostly) uninterrupted.

Yahoo Answers

Caught this posting on Yahoo Answers about online dating.
No I did not write it :)
But thank you to whoever did.

links to activities and interests

I am in the process of moving activities and interests to their own subdirectory. As a consequence, when you click on an activity and interest in someone's profile you may see a bad link or improper formatting until I complete the process.

server maintenance

Performed maintenance on my web and SQL Server today. As a result the servers were slower and the site was prone to timeout errors. I've finished 95% of the maintenance, the rest will be completed by 11 pm pacific time.

The Scintas Christmas Show

The Scintas will be performing at Shadow Hills Baptist Church (7811 Vegas Drive Las Vegas , NV 89128 ) as part of the Christmas Eve service Sunday December 24 at 9:00 am, 10:15 am, and 11:30 am. I hope you can join us :)

nanccy removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:

FROM NANCY KAMARA

Message: FROM NANCY KAMARA
LOME TOGO WEST AFRICA
NOTE:PLEASE KINDLY REPLY ME WITH THIS MY DIRECT EMAIL ( nancy_kamara1@yahoo.fr )

DEAR,

MY NAME IS NANCY KAMARA. THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF LATE MR AND MRS KAMARA GONGOLAR, PLEASE AND PLEASE DO NOT BE EMBARASED,I AM SEEKING YOUR ATTENTION TO HELP ME TRANSFER THE SUM OF ($6.5,000,000,00 US DOLLARS) SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE AMERICAN DOLLARS. IN YOUR ACCOUNT PLEASE IT IS MORE THAN URGENT.

MOREOVER, DEAR, I AM WILLING TO OFFER YOU 15% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS COMPENSATION FOR YOUR EFFORT/INPUT AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF THIS FUND INTO YOUR NOMINATED ACCOUNT OVERSEAS.

THANKS,

NANCY KAMARA ( nancy_kamara1@yahoo.fr )

Uses e-mail address jennet_kamara1@yahoo.com

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ineedhelp removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:
Hello Am so Much happy that i meet you and i would like u to help me out of here becouse right Now i have no one in my life and i simple need some one like u becouse u sound o nice and carring to me here and if u can just please and please help me out of here am ganna come over to u there and start a new life with u..Well it happen like this but i will like u to help me out of the shit coz it has brought me into dip shit here in Nigeria, My father and my sister died by car accident some year ago after the death of my father and my sister i and my mother decide to move to Ohio but when we get there we started running a small business and we later make some profit, My mother and i then decide to move to nigeria to invest the money we have made in to another business there but when we reach the airport in Lagos Nigeria here we take a taxi to the local hotel called Ceqant hotel but on our way to the hotel some robbers attcked us .They collected all the money we wanted to use to start the business which is exactly $27,000 and what hurt me most is that they shut my mother and she was rushed to the hospital for suggery but when the operation was going on i lost my mother i cried so much but she is gone and this has brought me into big mess here.. all i need now is a man who can help me with can afford to love me, trust me, and will remain honest to me and that is willing to help me to come back home and start a new life with some him. So i need to settle the hospiatl bill that my mother was owneing bcos all my document was deposited to the doctor before she was treated and to have them back i have to pay up the bills which i dont have the money pay and that why i need you to help me

Uses e-mail address marian_zocher15@usa.com

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Carlypeace removed, nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:
Hello,My name is Carly was looking through when I went through your ad,I must say it really set an attraction to me,I would like to get to know you better,my profile would be off the website soon,You may write me back at my personal email:Carlybraxton@yahoo.com Carly

Uses e-mail address carlybraxton@yahoo.com

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Faster Profiles

I've completed upgrading all the profiles so they will display faster. Previously they were averaging 2.5 seconds each to display. They now display average 0.025 seconds. A few problems may creep up, please let me know. The load on the server has dramatically decreased, as a consequence all the pages are displaying faster. I also gzipped the web server, something I should have done long ago. This has dramatically helped speed up load times and decrease bandwidth.

I am still able to run the site on two servers; one database and one web. Previously I was running the site on two co-located dual xeon servers, but I was getting creamed on bandwidth costs. I moved to two dedicated servers at 1 & 1 and dropped my expenses by an order of magnatude without a loss in performance. I look back at my expenses in those days and I am surprised I didn't go broke. That business model was not sustainable. I was also paying over $500/day in Google AdWords. I've cut back on the advertising and I am maximizing my organic traffic before going back to advertising again. In my opinion, top tier sites spend cash on advertising like it's growing on trees. If the suits in the corner office let their programmers and web deveopers concentrate on SEO they'd get more traffic cheaper, and at a rate that is sutainable. I am one guy and I have the 33rd most popular dating site in the world according to Alexa. As far as I know, I am the largest dating site run by one person based in the United States.

Right now I am holding steady at 450,000 page views per month. I expect that to increase with the performance boost, and the new year.

New Free iPod shuffle contest

I've started a new round in the Free iPod shuffle contest. It's real easy to win. All you have to do is make a link to OtherSingles.com on your web page, blog, Friendster/MySpace page or wherever. On February 1st 2007, one link will be selected and the winner will get their iPod. Enter here

Free iPod shuffle winner

I have a winner for the December 7 2006 Free iPod shuffle contest. The winner is in Hermosa Beach, California. I am waiting for her to reply to my notification e-mail so I can send her shuffle out immediately.

Dating married woman at True.com

Google "Dating married women" and you may see a sponsored add for True.com:

Married women dating
Free Sign Up & 7 Day Trial.
Search Thousands of Profiles Now!
www.true.com

Now go read this:

Herb Vest believes that true love should come with a criminal-background check.

Vest is the chief executive of True.com, an online dating service that pledges to verify whether your dream date is a convicted felon or, worse yet, already married.

joanne28ne removed, nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:

Hi there,
Thank you so much for the message and for letting me have your e-mail here, I will like to get to know more about you. I am joanne, mixed race my father is white from las vegas and my mother is black from Nigeria, i don't have any family again and i am presently living in Nigeria where i have been trying to claim the property my mother has left for me before she died. I am looking for a real man that will love me always, ready to support me and do everything to help me claim my property and i will eventually come to meet him, I hope that you are the man and i will like to come to relocate soon too if you will help me to come to you after the property is claimed. Do you have yahoo IM? We can chat there sometime, if you open yahoo or have one then add me to your list(joanne28ne@yahoo.com) and we will chat there. Thank you for talking to me, i am waiting for your reply soon, bye for now.

Joanne!

Uses e-mail address joanne28ne@yahoo.com

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plsgodhelpabbey removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:
Hi
I have the feeling that this piece of mail will reach you in a perfect state of mind and in a better healthy condition. While searching through the net, I came accross your profile and decided to contact you. I believe and also have the feeling that in todays world, neither race, age,nationality nor religion will any longer posse a barrier to male/female relationships. Although, we do not know each other well but I will really like to know more about you and if possible go into a relationship, if that is better for you. I am Chelsie Abbey Jollen I'm single never been married and also a house maid and also a woman who fears God and believe in him I'm looking for a mate, someone that will care for me and I will love and care in return. I am 31yrs old, I am fair and honest woman and always will be true to my man. So...tell me more about yourself, what do you look for in a woman and how may I entice you? I will also like to see your face sometime, your shinning beauty...I'm sure it's like the sun. I really know how to treat man and how to love man, pls reply as soon as possible. Let's be like honeybees and make something sweet. Please reply to my email (godhelpchelsie@yahoo.com or abiodunjollen21@aol.com). If you have a yahoo messenger ID or Aol instant messager id you can add me so can get to chat also. i do hope to hear from you soon .Thanks
Abbey jollen

Uses e-mail address godhelpchelsie@yahoo.com

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ange999 removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:

From Natasha
Dearest One
I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance to lead me to the right channel towards to be out of the critical situation i am now I got your contact from a computerize data and pray for God to give me a trustwhardy person who can allow and lead me to the right channel . I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity.

I am introducing my self as Ms. Natasha Daniella , the only Dauther of late Chief and Mrs Desmond Yana Andani , I wish to request for your assistance in a financial assistance. , And I wish to invest in Manufacturing and real estate management in your country. E.t.c

I have sixteen Million Five hundred thousand united states dollars.USD($16.500,000) to invest in your country, and I will require your assistance in clearing the consignment Out from security company here in Cote Di Voire ( Ivory Coast ) / west africa, I will be gladly to give you 15% out of the total sum of the money for your kind assistance.

please it is very important you contact me immediately on my private email address: ( natasha_danee88@yahoo.it ) for further explanation on how we will proceed.

Awaiting your immediate response
Thanks and God bless.
Best Regards (natasha_danee88@yahoo.it )
Natasha

Uses e-mail address angelalnda_003@yahoo.fr

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sandra222 removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample email:
i am sandra by the name ,,i am serching through some profile....and i really like your profile ....i will love to know you well ...and you can mail IM me at my email which is sandra4real222@yahoo.com.for contact..i will be looking forward to read from you.. cheers.

Uses email address sandra4real222@yahoo.com

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avgusta removed, Russian scammer

Sample e-mail:
Greetings, my new friend!
My name is Sveta.
I search the man for creation of serious relations.
Now I shall tell about myself: to me of 28 years, I the nice, cheerful, kind girl.
I was interested with your structure as it seems to me, that you very interesting person and too search serious relations.
If you have become interested in my letter,
write please on mine E-mail: klubnichka_78@inbox.ru
With impatience I wait for your letter!

Uses e-mail address klubnichka_78@inbox.ru

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funtinka removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:
Hello!!!
I have placed my announcement on this site of acquaintances because I
want to have serious attitudes. I have chosen you after long search
and I have decided to write to you the letter. I write to you from the
Internet of cafe and on this my letter will not be long. Now I would
like to tell to you not much about myself, mine a name - Tatyana and
me 27 years. I am young but wise already to make a man happy and make
the house cozy and comfortable. I have never been married before and I
think this is the right moment to do it. I have chosen you and have
decided to write to you the letter because I liked your structure on a
site of acquaintances and on this now I write to you this letter. I
think the true love comes with time and what is really important in
the relationship is the trust and understanding. I hope that you will
answer my letter and I at once shall send you my photo. Please write
to me at once on my email address : funtinka@gmail.com


Uses e-mail address funtinka@gmail.com

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marksingle removed, Nigerian scammer

Sample e-mail:
My Name is mark am Looking for a serious Reltiosnhipe that we Lead to marriage am Not Here For Game,,, pls if u Are Really interested in me me whrite me back ok... good day..
Mark....

Uses e-mail address mark_trust_faith_080@yahoo.com

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drewwboy removed for posting obscene photos

drewwboy felt that everyone should view a picture of his penis.
Uses e-mail address whitley5000@yahoo.com