Anyone who’s ever dealt with a traffic spike from their dating or social network being Slashdotted (or having an extraordinary marketing team) might find this of interest.

Brad at LiveJournal did presentation a few years ago called “Holy hell that’s a lot of hits” which outlines in detail how they scaled up the Livejournal web and database server infrastructure to deal with mega-traffic growth.

Fascinating for the technology types and important for executives to understand how complex dynamic web apps have become and how getting it right can make or break a site (see Friendster).

Via Markus.

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More interesting dating site feature reviews at RateOrDate. This time it’s search radius options. Andy certainly is gathering up useful comparison data for the next version of his service.

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If you're in a serious relationship maybe it's time to diversify your portfolio. No, I'm not talking about seeing other people. I'm saying that if you're both on the corporate track, maybe it's time for one of you to...

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Sure we all have our favorite things we like to do between the sheets. But don't underestimate the value of spooning. It may not be the most sexual thing you can do, but it surely can be one of...

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Match recently did some major design changes. Someone in the design department like pages with no real sense of cohesion and the color black. I don’t particularly care for black blue and green as a color palette personally. Then again, if you saw the myriad systems and legacy stuff Match runs on, at least they continue to streamline, even if the site goes through periods of “what were they thinking?”

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Userplane has announced that OkCupid has selected and implemented Userplane’s Webmessenger™ technology, a leading IM and chat tool featuring both live text and streaming audio/video.

I met Sam Yagan of OkCupid recently. We had a great conversation you may want to read.

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I’m in the process of moving the blog. The next handfull of posts will be links to what other bloggers have been writing about this week while I’ve been busy under the hood moving to a new host, domain name, blog platform and taking care of the innumerable issues that pop up during the process.

A blog called “mapping the themes of human existence” has a post about the truth about eHarmony, which I found via RateOrDate.

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