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Please nominate Zoosk for a Crunchie Award!
As the year winds down, Zoosk looks at the work we’ve done through 2009 with feelings of accomplishment. We’ve become the fastest growing online dating site in the world, and we’ve released some amazing new products like Zoosk Desktop, Zoosk Mobile, Zoosk Coins, and our new product, Boost Views. We’ve also brought people together from all over the world and helped so many of our users find love. We sincerely hope you’ve had as much fun with Zoosk this year as we’ve had, working for you. If that’s been the case, please vote for Zoosk for a 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Award, and nominate us for Best Social Networking Application.
Nominations just opened, but you can vote each day until the ballots close two weeks from now. Each vote counts, so please remember to bookmark the site and vote for Zoosk every day from now until December 4 so that we can make it to the next round of voting!
The more you show your support, the more people will know about Zoosk. That means our user base, YOUR dating pool, will get bigger and bigger. We know you want your dating pool to grow so that you raise the chances of finding that someone special, so remember to vote for Zoosk this year. Our hopes are that Zoosk will grow so we have a better chance of matching every single one of our users up with someone who works for them. We’d love to win a Crunchie so that this can happen. 
Thanks Zooskers! Vote for Zoosk!
Add comment November 19, 2009
Online dating rule: take things slow
By Juliet O
“Take it slow” is probably the single best piece of relationship advice that people never seem to want to hear. Like relationships in real life, online relationships can also move way too fast. And I don’t have to remind you about the story of the turtle and the hare. There are many reasons to take things slowly on Zoosk, but the biggest reason is also the most obvious one: you don’t know this other Zoosker yet. And you should get to know them, before you meet in real life.
Reducing the speed at which you barrel toward love, marriage, and mortgage, actually makes dating more fun. Many people claim that the very best time to be in love is at the beginning of relationships, when all the euphoric, mesmerizing feelings of love are at their most intense. Why not prolong that intensity as long as possible? When poets write about love, they are almost never talking about comfortable long term relationships. They write about the dizzying feeling of falling in love with someone and the first stages of blossoming affection. Let the excitement of falling in love last as long as possible! There is simply no need to hurry. What’s the rush? If it’s meant to be, it will be.
5 comments September 11, 2009
August was a good month for love
Hurray! It’s that time of the month again, when we reveal the winning couple of the previous months’ Success Story contest. We’ve heard many beautiful love stories that left our hearts fluttering, but the August story that particularly tugged on our heartstrings was sent to us from a Zoosker from Detroit named Jason. He initially sent in this message on August 20, after he encountered a woman named Ang on Zoosk. In fact, he sent us this success story before he actually met Ang in real life, while they were still just chatting on the phone!
2 comments September 9, 2009
Love Advice: How to overcome shyness
By Juliet O
Zooskers often write in our Community Forums asking for advice on love. The Zoosk Community is incredibly supportive of each other, and when a Zoosker seeks love advice on the forums, other Zooskers weigh in and offer their assistance. It’s a nice feeling, knowing that there is a community of people willing to help you work through your love and relationship problems.
As more and more questions arise on our forums, we’ve discovered certain similarities among the questions we’ve seen. Questions often fall into distinct camps. And questions tend to be finite. We get a lot of the same questions over and over again. That should be reassuring news! This means that — for each person out there who has love or relationship problems — there are other people in the world with the same problems. You are not alone! And we want to help too. You don’t have to take our advice, or even listen to what we have to say, but we want you — yes, you! — out there to know that we really do care.
We want to participate in the conversation. So, each week we’ll be taking a question from the Zoosk Community Forums and giving our take on the situation. Unofficial advice from official Zoosk. Here’s this week’s question, posed by Zoosker Jay. This is taken from our Broken Heart, Now What forum.
2 comments September 4, 2009
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Zoosk coins
By Juliet O
… Zoosk is introducing coins to our site! Why coins? Because we like shiny objects, and we like pirates, so it follows logically that our currency of choice on Zoosk would be gorgeous glistening gold doubloons.
Argg matey! So, with coins, (1) what are these pretty little babies, and (2) what can you spend them on? Currently, coins can be spent in 4 different ways, depending on if you’re a premium subscriber or a basic member on Zoosk. Peep this.
2 comments August 31, 2009
Zoosk Desktop helps you work it, work it real good
Monday just went from blaaaahhh to YAYYYYY, ‘cuz Zoosk Desktop is here to help you keep the spirit of the weekend going all week long. What’s Zoosk Desktop, you might ask? We reply — in our most falsely modest voice — that we dared, we hustled, and here’s what we got: the very first downloadable desktop application ever introduced for a social online dating community. Or, in simpler terms, Zoosk Desktop is a ridiculously awesome new way to be on the prowl… rawr.
2 comments August 17, 2009
Sexy new features on Zoosk
If we could find a way to bottle your pheromones and send them over the internet with a box of aphrodisiac-laden chocolates and a bottle of French champagne, we’d do it — but since we can’t, we’re giving you the next best thing in the art of seduction: rad new features on our latest release that will be sure to boost your game and maximize your flirt potential all crazy-like. Now, on Zoosk, you have the ability to “like” notices on other members’ Activity Feeds, separate gifts by category, and get automatic notices of winks, flirts, and “likes,” right on your phone if you sign up for Zoosk Mobile. What a way to end the week, Zooskers!
4 comments August 15, 2009
Facebook Connect, Yo
Hella quick, efficient Facebook Connect integration in da HIZZOUSE! (more…)
2 comments August 11, 2009
Another Zoosk romance that brings tears to our eyes
By Juliet O
Zooskers are catching the love bug left and right, and we’ve been hearing success stories from our users that are so romantic, they put Jane Austin to shame. A big thank you to all those who submitted stories in July about finding that special someone on Zoosk. Last month, we came across a story that particularly struck a chord with our more blatantly sensitive side, which was submitted from Zooskers ThomasW71 and 777blondie from Washington state. Here’s our featured story. (more…)
1 comment August 7, 2009
There’s No Place like Home…
The Zoosk team is constantly working to add new features that enhance the site and your experience. This time, we’re bringing it home…
Zoosk is releasing a new home page experience, and we will be rolling it out to all Zooskers over the next several weeks.
Each release the Zoosk team rolls out is meant to improve your experience. The new home page is designed to bring you a concise and live stream of activities about other Zooskers as well as consolidated access to key Zoosk features so that you can more easily meet and connect with others.
Zoosk Feed
From the home page you’ll be able to view new Zooskers who have just joined, see who has updated their profile with new information, and stay up-to-date with what other Zooskers have been up to since you’ve been gone.
The updates in your live feed introduce you to other Zooskers who fit the criteria you’ve asked for and are based on trends we see in your searches and daily matches. The updates are great conversation starters, and are an effective way to quickly introduce you to someone new who you might not have found through a search. We are refreshing the feed all the time, so feel free to come back throughout the day to see what’s going on.
Easy Access to Zoosk Features
On the home page you have access to all of the site’s features you need to meet new people:
- Search: Enter the characteristics of your perfect match, and immediately browse through profiles tailored to the criteria you are looking for.
- Emails: You’ll see clearly how many unread emails are waiting for you.
- Favorites: Find out who has added you to their list of favorites. Is it mutual?
- Date Card Views: Curious to know who is checking you out? Click on this link to find out.
- What’s next? Find out what you can do to improve your date card and other opportunities that are available to you in Zoosk.
Feeling Lucky?
Remember the Daily Matches page? No worries! It’s not gone, it’s just more comfortable at home. You can get to the same Daily Matches page by clicking on “full view” next to Feeling Lucky. Just like before, you can browse through profiles that match what you are looking for. See someone you like? Choose to view their profile, wink, send an email, or skip to the next person.
The Zoosk team takes pride in providing a simple and easy-to-use platform for our members. With all that Zoosk has to offer, we want to be sure that the site stays that way as we continue to expand its features.
What do you think about the new home page? No amount of testing we do can substitute for your feedback. If you have something to share, we want to hear it! Visit the Zoosk community and tell us what you think about the home page.
15 comments March 30, 2009
