Dating technology is ever expanding. The newest way to grab a date is with the use of your ZIP code. Now, when you go shopping for a house not only can you look at the price and the size of your new home — but you can see how many singles live in your new neighborhood.

Cyberhomes.com is a website which show how many single, married and divorced people live in each ZIP code area throughout the United States. This site can also give you the ratio of males to females per neighborhood, and the level of education of your potential neighbors.

This is a great way for meeting people though it's a bit more expensive to go about it this way. Of course, when you move to your new home you have to get outside and meet the neighbors, or your potential new date.

This site can be used for many other purposes, like finding out about the air quality, commute times, parents can find out about student-teacher ratios and the average grades of children in their new community.

Lindsey Groepper the spokeswoman for cyberhomes.com said, "The real estate market is so upside down now that people are starting to look at aspects of neighborhoods aside from just home values."

If you are in the midst of buying a new house, this may be the service to try out. After all, it's a good idea to date a neighbor… or not.

[Via: StarTribune]

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This is a somewhat fresh approach to online dating. A Canadian online dating service called OmniDate has decided to offer its members a unique way to avoid the hassles of unsuccessful dating with singles whose profiles showed all the information to make you feel they are compatible with you, only to turn out to be fake or insincere profiles.

Basically what happens is you (your avatar) meet your date (their avatar) online in a pleasant setting for a cup of virtual coffee. This creates an easy atmosphere for conversation where you get to find out more about the other person from that person (well, virtually). After this, and with a better idea about them, you can choose whether you want to continue your relationship by going on another OmniDate, or meet in real life for a real date. Whatever you choose, communication is done discretely and securely through a convenient messaging system.

OmniDate members have a choice between six male or female avatars, also including an avatar that clearly represents a person of color. Virtual dates include a museum gallery tour, bar or beach, but also lounging while listening to chosen music. Avatars interact in a way that expresses emotion. For example by typing "LOL" you can make your avatar giggle. Other possibilities are blowing kisses, holding hands, yawning and even rolling eyes. This all helps to let the other user know how much you are enjoying, or not enjoying your date with them.

This sounds like a lot of fun. Registration is free, and even though it's still in beta, there are already a few thousand members waiting for you to join them.

[Via: TheStar.com]

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IntelligentPeople.com is a dating service whose aim is to connect intelligent people from all over the world for socializing and dating. Membership is free, but in order to qualify everyone has to take an intelligence test. The test itself can be accessed through a special test code sent to the candidate by email right after sign-up. The code can only be used once, and you have only two sign-ups to take the test, so I guess that means if you strike out two times, that's it - you're out! They say it's because members are supposed to be from the top 15% of the world population who are highly intelligent people, as opposed to top 2% who are MENSA members.

The service claims the tests are culture and education neutral (as much as they can be), and the visual part is in black and white (to equalize odds for color blind people).

"Intelligent people usually want a partner who is also intelligent. Everyone wants someone they can talk to… At general dating sites, you have to spend time and energy, sorting profiles to find the ones that match that criterion. At IntelligentPeople.com we already made that sorting for you." (Trine Jensen, founder of IntelligentPeople.com)

So, if you feel like taking an intelligence test head on over to IntelligentPeople.com.

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Dating can be a costly process - there are expenses for dinner, dressing up, transport… It's unavoidable and necessary. A dating service just entered Beta, which allows its members to communicate with other members in a social network like fashion for the purpose of finding a dating/relationship partner, except you can actually make some money as well.

The founders of YouLoveMe.com have done extensive research on the topic of dating, and found that 4 dates a month will set you back an average of $345. This takes into account various expenses such as dinners, movies, transportation expenses, obligatory candies and flowers on the first or second date. YouLoveMe members are given space where they can place their own banner ad on the MyPage section of the site. All clicks generated from these ads are worth money, which members can use to cover at least some of their dating expenses. Basically, members are payed to stay members.

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Well, it's not only a dating search engine. It's actually a search engine for finding individuals who have profiles on many social networks that are out there, but it's quite easily used for searching for a date. Currently, the search engine retrieves results from these sources - 43 Things, AIM, BEBO, BlackPlanet, Blurty, BookOfMatches, Digg, Espin, Facebook, Flickr, Fotolog, Friendster, Google Talk, Greatest Journal, HI5, Hot or Not, ICQ Messenger, IMVU, Jabber Messenger, Jaiku, LavaPlace, LiveJournal, Meetup, MocoSpace, MSN Messenger, Myspace, NetLog, OkCupid, Paltalk, PlentyofFish, Skype, Stickam, StumbleUpon, Tagged, Tribe, Twitter, Veoh, VOX, WAYN, Webdate, Xanga, Yahoo Personals, YahooIM, YouTube, Zwinky… and they say plenty more are coming in the following months.

There is a simple search interface on BuddyFetch - it lets you enter keywords (best to use personal traits of a person you'd be interested in), select sex (male, female, both), and age. I tried a few simple searches plenty of results pertaining to people interested in dating, although I must point out that some of the results shown are a bit "spam" looking. You can also add your own profile to let the service know where your social profile can be found (basically choose from a list of all the services mentioned earlier). They also ask for your email address, which threw me off a bit - a source network and screen name on that network should be enough.

If you've got a couple of minutes, give BuddyFetch a try and do tell us your impressions.

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