Thursday, July 23, 2009

WooMe: Speed Dating Comes to the Web

Would you pay a dollar for the email address of someone you met online and have the hots for? WooMe is betting you would. It's an online hook-up instigator in which you sign up with your picture and location and then join 'sessions.' These are scheduled web-events in which you interface with each participant via webcam for one whole minute, and then decide which ones you found attractive.







Appscout's Brian Heater and I met virtually with WooMe's CEO Stephen Stokols last week to check the nubile young service out. The video quality is quite good, based on Flash Video. For now sessions are restricted to 7pm-11pm West Coast, and the service is in closed alpha, by invitation only, but that will all be changing soon, according to Stokols. At least you can save the 50 bucks you were planning on spending for that tired old non-virtual speed dating event. One downside of WooMe--You won't be able to smell your potential suitors.

1 comment:

  1. Seems that your post is a little out of date!

    WooMe is open to everyone, and it costs nothing to connect, and chat sessions are open 24/7!

    Check it out www.woome.com

    :)

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