we saw this article on Online Dating Insider
Ccube is a new over-the-phone social network launching today. The service lets you connect with friends and business prospects on sites like MySpace and eBay with the click of a button. Members can search for and talk to anyone for free. The service lets users link a Ccube username to their favorite connectivity device, including mobile and landline phones or VoIP services, keeping personal phone numbers private.
This is good for dating and social networking, especially on a site like Classmates and Reunion.com. A great way to reconnect with the guy who beat you up for lunch money or the girl you always wanted to ask out in high school.
I like the idea of voice profiles the most. The world is full of people with enough free time to yap away with strangers about all sorts of things. I worked with some people on a business plan the did just this, based on Skype, last year. It’s a compelling idea and the technology is all there to make it happen. It needs a solid scheduling feature to make it turely useful, who wants to get random calls all hours of the day?
The logo has a woman talking on the phone in her car while it looks like the door is open! And she’s not wearing a seatbelt, a la Jon Corzine. Thumbs down from the safety police.
Corra still conducts the occasional background search for dating purposes. With that in mind, and with Corra being the romantic she is, we found this article just too amusing to let it pass. Imagine, using the telephone to talk to a romantic prospect? Corra says this is so old, it’s new.
And that in itself may sound odd, if not frightening. the fact that we have, in our desperation to find a mate, relied upon everything but our own human voice may say more about the modern human experience than we care to realize. Perhaps, we have tried everything else and now we are back to the phone. Corra recalls those earlier youthful and awkward moments known as the dating process. Made the heart thump a little harder with romantic visions and a hint of expectation.
So now we are back talking on the phone. Quite a concept. Corra thinks it is wise to check out your potential paramour, and ounce of prevention may help you avoid ten pounds of cure. So when you meet someone, just to be sure, check them out before you date them.
