Perfect Spammer Profile

Ladies, beware of something like this:

 

I am  young at heart. Man with a sensual, elegant appearance. I have a European background and am stylish, refined and sincere.”I’m worldly experiences and am a genuine Man. I am a down to Earth and romantic person with broad interests: I am content and successful gifted with one child around me whom I love and adore well-balanced man and I enjoy my own time as well as sharing time with that special person… I am intuitive, sensitive and well organized I’m a lot of fun to be with.I am a happy single man that enjoy dining out, reading, movies, going out with friends, camping, going to the sea side & just having fun.I’m looking for someone i can grow old with. Giving each other back rubs, Going for a country drive, Renting a movie, Roasting marshmallows over a campfire, Snuggling up in front of the fireplace, Taking a sunset boat ride. I like reading Danielle Steele.

 

There are no real men available like that, just spammers. Note the subtle grammatical mistakes – these are easy to catch with software on my site.

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

The biggest brainiac party ever!

Over 300 attendees at Slattery’s midtown pub on Dec 17.

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Facebook page

The brainiac Facebook page has over 1000 fans. On some days the posts get over 1000 impressions, so it is doing well.
I wonder if there is an easy way to get even more impressions?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brainiac-Dating/244750840065

Brainiac On KissFM

Brainiac Dating got mentioned on KissFM 93.9 in New York today, though it would be nice if “brainiac” were written without a “K”. Who needs good speeling anyway?

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Brainiac on the Next Web

Yesterday a nice article about brainiac dating came out on The Next Web.
The buzz around this article was great! See the picture below:

There were 182 Tweets of the article in less than 24 hours, and the pageviews were almost 5 times the average. The odd quirk I noticed is that 95% of the new members on the site that came via this
article were men.

Brainiacs Favorite Authors: Are you scared?

I scanned BrainiacDating.com member database to find the most popular authors.
This table shows the frequency percent of response for the favorite author field in the member profiles.
Stephen King is the scary favorite!

1	Stephen King	5.7
2	Edgar Allen Poe	3.3
3	William Shakespeare	3.2
4	John Grisham	2.9
5	Charles Dickens	2.7
5	Earnest Hemingway	2.7
7	J.R. Tolkien	2.5
8	Kurt Vonnegut	2.4
9	Isaac Asimov	2.3
10	John Steinbeck	2.2
10	Mark Twain	2.2
12	Jane Austen	1.9
13	Robert Heinlein	1.8
13	Dan Brown	1.8
13	James Joyce	1.8
16	Douglas Adams	1.7
16	Ayn Rand	1.7
18	Neil Gaiman	1.6
18	Dean Koontz	1.6
18	James Patterson	1.6
21	Tom Clancy	1.5
21	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1.5
22	J.K. Rowling	1.4
23	Margaret Atwood	1.3
23	Frank Herbert	1.3
23	Terry Pratchett	1.3
23	Anne Rice	1.3
27	William Faulkner	1.2

I love Google Plus

I got invited into Google + today and very quickly got hooked into it. I find it easy to use and visually appealing. It combines the best of Facebook and Twitter, and I think it will quickly grow to the same scale
as Facebook.

I signed up for the developer email, so hopefully I will be one of the first to build an application on it.

Add me to your circle.

Weeds Over-targetting

Not only am I seeing ads for weeds season premiere all over the NYC buses, on the radio and TV at the gym and on the internet radio, but now it’s targeting me on Facebook! It’s too much. I’ve never been so over-targeted before except for bonobo pants. Showtime must be spending tens of millions promoting the new season, which means time bigadvertisers must be all gushy and mushy over the pot craze???

How do they find me? Quite a few of my friends seem to have liked it… Ok, I’ve watched the show a few times via my fiancee’s netflix account, but that was only the first season. We are five years behind on episodes and don’t even own a TV, so there is no way I could ever watch the show.