Bluedating

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wireless dating, Widating or Bluedating (from Bluetooth) is a form of dating which makes use of mobile phone and Bluetooth technologies. Subscribers to the service enter details about themselves and about their ideal partner, as they would for other on-line dating services. When their mobile phone comes in the vicinity of that of another subscriber (a radius of about 10 meters) the phones exchange details of the two people. (The vicinity can be a public and populated space, like a pub, a department stores or hypermarket, a skyscraper, a hospital, a street, a plaza, a beach and so on — called blueplaces). If there is a match, then both users are alerted and can seek each other out and directly chat using Bluetooth (bluechat). Settings can include an option which restricts alerts to subscribers who have a friend in common.

There is an implementation of wireless dating called Serendipity (the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for) being pioneered by MIT's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. (Reported in New Scientist Magazine 20 March 2004.). Another open source study is called “spontact”. Spontact comes with ICQ support.

Speck uses its own appliance, but bases exchange of data on Bluetooth technology.

A group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have developed a dating application called Bluedating running on mobile phones with Bluetooth.

Further implementations include Jambo, Enpresence, SmallPlanet's CrowdSurfer,Easy Jack , MobiLuck, Nokia Sensor and, the latest, 6th Sense.