OkTrends : The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating. another gem of a post from OkCupid. That height distribution chart is amazingly close.

Homeowners Use Airbnb Room-Renting Site to Pay Mortgage, Dodge Foreclosure – Bloomberg. mentions a couple people who are basically paying their mortgage with airbnb.

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing. I feel like I’m late to the game on this one but this is really well executed. The timeline player is great.

shutup.css. custom css file to hide comments from sites like cnn.com and the globe and mail. i didn’t know safari could do this.

Dating site lets women call the shots – Springwise. men can only post profiles if referred. only women can search and they pay to use the site. interesting model.

You’ve Been Yelped – Inc Magazine. about small businesses coming to grips with the power of yelp.

The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine. this article blew my mind.

Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push – igvita.com. nginx is certified badass.

Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups – Vimeo. 20 minute talk about the last 3 years of mint.com. interesting talk as he had just sold mint to intuit for $170M and he uses their actual numbers for costs and equity shares. I though the most informative slide was about their projected revenue per user based on cost-per-acquisition deals (jump to 14:00 for this).

NYC BigApps Competition – $20k In Prize Money | FlowingData. new york city has released public apis for accessing restaurant inspections, traffic, city budgets, etc. best app to use the data gets $20K and dinner with the mayor. pretty great idea.

Hulu Desktop. hulu is definitely doing some cool stuff. it’s a shame it’s not in canada.

Gen Y’s financial entourage. Ali is quoted in the article. i really gotta get going on my financial planning app for the twitter crowd.

Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline | Epicenter from Wired.com. this is insane. they basically lost all their data due to a faulty back-up scheme.

Evernote + Eye-Fi = Instant Photographic Memory. not a bad gtd idea.

Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc. find images by colors on flickr. kinda cool

Magic/Replace – Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB. web-based tool for easy spreadsheet transformations. kinda cool, not that i really need it.

Meet Inbetween Us. Google maps mashup to find the “middle” of where people are. I actually just used this to figure out where a group of 6 people should meet.

LeadVine – Crowdsource Your Lead Generation and Referrals. post referrals for all sorts of businesses.

TokBox – Live Video Calling. this is pretty well executed for multi-person video chat.

The Dollar Auction and Swoopo | MetaFilter. “capitalism is over, everybody, we’ve finally found the winner”. via anton.