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Dec 10, 2007 - Written by Sasha Cagen | Filed under: Uncategorized

Every dating site has a psychographic as well as a demographic, which means that quirkyalones needs to find a quirky place to find a match. Match.com may dominate the market with the most users, but it’s psychographic is decidedly . . . average. So it may be an uphill battle to look for love there. Plus, who really wants to give their money to Dr. Phil (he’s branded as their Mind-Find-Bind expert, ick).

That said, in lieu of, and who knows, in anticipation of, a dating site called quirkytogether.com (I do own the domain), here are a few more fun and inventive dating sites that I’ve noticed sprout up over the last few months. OkCupid isn’t new but it seems to have undergone a redesign and is looking really great these days. There may not be as many people on the site as on others, but the service is free. Rather than the typical self-puffery of online dating profiles, most of the profiles are amusingly self-deprecating. There are more polyamorous types than you might expect to find–I wonder, if, like Orkut randomly wound up attracting Brazilians, OkCupid randomly became ground zero for polys.

WooMe.com has gotten a lot of buzz. It aims to replicate the experience of speed dating online. Whether that’s fun or bizarre or dehumanizing, I don’t know. The site’s UI (user interface) is fun. It seems to be aimed at the college crowd.

Most weird and conceptually cool is OkCupid’s new side project CrazyBlindDate. Sign up and get paired with random strangers for a single or double date. No endless emailing, no precise sense of what the person or people will look like (their photos are blurred). I’m assuming everyone meets in a public place. Not for the faint at heart, and probably not a huge success rate at meeting someone you’ll want to see again, but if you truly believe in serendipity and have time to spare, and you’re majorly adventurous, who knows? Could be fun, or at least, give you a good story to share with your friends.

Finally, for QAs not so interested in dating at the moment, here’s a new site SingleEdition, for singles “who know there’s life beyond dating.”