Now, you can use your high-speed Internet connection for some high-speed dating

Date: 2007-10-05

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Speeddate.com is inaugurating its service tonight with an invitation-only speed-date session for 100 singles in the San Francisco area. The new online dating service offers a brief questionnaire and three-minute livevideo chats. Co-founder Dan Abelon says Speeddate.com started as a project for a Stanford University graduate class. He says spending hours filling out online questionnaires and e-mail exchanges is a waste of time. Abelon adds that a brief conversation is all that's really needed to determine whether a relationship is worth pursuing. Now, the service is free, but Abelon says they hope to eventually charge a subscription fee.

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