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Pitch Night v.02

THE FUTURE OF ONLINE DATING

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WHAT’S MISSING IN ONLINE DATING TODAY?

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Embracing randomnessOnline dating today is all about finding the perfect match. When in real life love actually embraces randomness and is found in the strangest places and between the most unlikely people.

After all if you knew what the love of your life was, wouldn't you have found it already?

THE LACK OF SERENDIPITY

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Location, location, locationThe traditional way to meet new partners is in the wild. The streets, at the café, at work, in night clubs or in our neighborhoods.

How can technology and online dating enhance the experience of finding a mating partner in the wild?

OFFLINE ENCOUNTERS

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Matching online personalitiesNow a days we live large parts of our lives online. We snoop on our friends’ and would-be friends’ Facebook profiles to learn more about them. And that’s just one site. Just think about the potential in matching people using data from all our social profiles.

Matching people based on their every day use of websites and social networks is common sense in 2011.

LEVERAGING THE SEMANTIC WEB

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What to say, wear or doWe all need guidance to reach our full potential in life. Also in dating.

The dating sites is packed with research and data on what works and what doesn’t work. It’s a shame not to make use of all that data in the name of love.

GUIDANCE

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THE EVOLUTION OF ONLINE DATING...

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15 min to spare? Up for a coffee date?Your dating site should have a mobile feature which knows who you match with, so if you want to grab a coffee or go see a movie you can push out a message to all the matching people who are in your area at that time.

The people who get the push notification/ sms will only see how compatible you are, and possibly a profile rating. If they accept that is all you will see as well. So it's basically an automated blind date where it's first come, first serve.

LOOKING FOR...

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Random profile browsingBasically you have the chatroulette function paired with people's dating profile. You can go completely random, or filter chatters by interests etc.

While you chat you have access to the other persons profile, and when you get bored you can just click next.

The datingroulette function registers your chats, who've you've talked to, how long, who you reject and so forth. This filters who comes up in the future.

CHATROULETTE + DATING SITE

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Party datingGoing on a date with someone you met online can be a bit weird, much better to go out with your friends and just happen to meet someone interesting.

That doesn't happen so often so we think groups of friends should be able to sign up together. Then they can have pre-parties with other groups of friends by web cam, have some fun and meet up at a bar.

If they like each other, they can always have an after-party as well. 

MATCH PRE-PARTY

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For people with humor and zero illusionsAn app for when your date went badly or you're just plain desperate.

With a geo-location app you can announce that you're available for people nearby.

A nice add on feature is the Sunday No-Strings, for the times when all you want is someone to watch a movie with when you're hungover, and maybe cuddle a bit.

LEFT OVERS

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Find the right place with the perfect matchThis app brings the information from your dating service out with you when your going out.

You can get an overview of the "market" before you go somewhere, and see how many potentials there are at a bar compared to how many competitors you have.

When you check in, other people who use the app will get access to your information.

MARKET APP

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IDEAS CONCEIVED AT THE REFINEMENT CLUB’S PITCH NIGHT v.02

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‣ Benedikte Kluge‣ Gro Larsson‣ Johannes Rummelhoff‣ Cyan :studio

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Thanks to all the participants!

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