Tag: ROMANCE

For those of you that have never had the pleasure of "changing" your Facebook relationship status, here's what it's like: random people "like" your misfortune, friends all comment "Wha!?" and suddenly the inbox is filled with inquiries and messages from your high school lab partner asking if you are okay. Putting relationship statuses on Facebook is a defining experience, where you can proudly ...

It's Valentine's Day, and Google is celebrating the occasion with a special homepage doodle, and a new, 'Map Your Valentine' location-sharing service for lovers. The doodle is designed as a pretty obvious homage to Robert Indiana's famous 'LOVE' image, with a heart replacing the first "O" in a re-arranged Google logo, and the second one slanted to the right. Unlike recent homepage doodles, ...

For all intents and purposes, Evan (name changed) is what would be called, in present-day Brooklyn, a catch. He is handsome, fit, quick to smile and incredibly polite. He also plays several instruments and runs a gallery, making art in his free time. In the time that I've known him, Evan has never been short on dates. Over coffee recently, I asked how he met his new girlfriend -- who actually ...

Innovative artists tired of the unyielding ways of the corporate music industry made our pick as one of the coolest tech trends in 2010. When Kanye West released one song each week to his Twitter followers, the hype surrounding his critically acclaimed 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' snowballed, even though many of the songs he offered for free download then appeared on the album. Not only ...

There's a budding (and utterly bizarre) romance brewing on Twitter, between Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It all began in June, when Medvedev traveled to Silicon Valley, and locked eyes with the Governator for the first time. With his heart a-fluttering, the president flirtatiously winked at his new BFF, and even quoted the famous "I'll be ...

Heartbroken lovers eager to get over their exes will no longer have to worry about running into painful old photos on Facebook, now that the social network has decided to automatically remove all unwanted romantic nostalgia from its 'Photo Memories' feature. The 'Memories' box, which appears in the top right corner of some Facebook pages, used to display photos of all your friends who were ...

From their humble origins during the digitally threadbare days of Usenet, webcomics have become an inextricable part of the Internet landscape, underground but with more exposure than ever before. And with New York's epic celebration of the printed strip known as Comic-Con fast approaching, what better time than now to contemplate the splendors of the webcomic? We've done the hard work, and ...

Share It used to be that, if you wanted to meet that special someone, you had to chat up people at bars or go on dates set up by friends and family. Sure, there have always been personal ads and dating services, but they were generally considered the realm of the desperate. But now, social networks have turned the Internet into one giant repository of personal ads, and much of the stigma ...

Where many men have disappointed their girlfriends by offering casual, lackluster proposals, Digg's Matt Van Horn secured a definite "yes" from his girlfriend, Lauren, on Saturday by streaming his surprise proposal online so that their friends and family could watch. Fearing that Lauren would expect the proposal if he took her to their favorite spot overlooking San Francisco, Van Horn ...

In the saddest news we've heard today (which means it's been a relatively good day), 440 people have enrolled in a master's course, held at Potsdam University in Germany, that instructs students in how to be flirtatious via text message and e-mail, how to impress acquaintances and how to deal with that girl who will inevitably text back, "uhhh NO, perv." The course's instructor, Philip von ...

Good husbands spend hours on end coming up with innovative ways to surprise their sweethearts with gifts. Stefan Magdalinski is a good husband. As Engadget reports, Stefan recently surprised his wife by giving her a frozen iPad, encased in chocolate, that he had smuggled into South Africa via London. He photo-documented the whole thing on his blog, and, judging from the snapshots, he seems to ...

Online dating, in theory, is supposed to make romance easy. It's always been perceived as a convenient means by which shy singles or busy professionals could meet people without having to go through the hassle and stress of actually meeting people. In today's hyper-connected age of chaos, though, even browsing through profiles and clicking a mouse is too much to ask of an online citizen weaned on ...

You may spend your spare time surfing the Web, hanging out with friends, or playing ultimate frisbee. Mark Zuckerberg spends his down time predicting who you're gonna hook up with next. That's right. Your romantic life is Zuckerberg's leisure. In the forthcoming book 'The Facebook Effect,' Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick delves into the psyche of the Facebook CEO. And based on early ...

Share Spurred on by Apple's rethinking of how a computer should look and act, several new companies have launched pleasure items that aren't as obvious as the adult novelties of bygone days. What this means, of course, is that clean, minimalistic design has infiltrated all sectors. The pleasure objects of yore have lost their flesh tones and garish neon hues, because, honestly, no one wants ...

No one ever said being in college was easy. What with the demands of drinking, drugs, and the occasional exam, the average 20-something faces a schedule jam packed with rigorous activity. Luckily, though, a new site can help students save time when it comes to at least one major item on the syllabus: hooking up. Created by Josh Weinstein, GoodCrush is a dating service exclusively aimed at ...