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The Editor's Top Pick - Innovative Award recipient for 2010 is PerfectMatch.com. We found that they were the dating site which had risen above others by offering more new and updated features for their service which make it even easier for PerfectMatch.com members to meet and communicate with each other.

Some of the new features were as simple as allowing members to express if they liked a certain part of a members profile and/or photos. They could also explain why they liked it by choosing from a list of predefined statements. This feature gives members a good way to break the ice since a message is sent to the other member, telling them of the connection. The initial communication with someone can be one of the toughest things to do on a dating site. Having a feature like this shows that PerfectMatch.com understands what members may need to help start jump start communication. Other new tools in 2010 include "Compare Us" and a News Activity feed. "Compare Us" offers a side by side comparison of your profile and your potential matches making it easy to see what works and if any deal breakers exist. The News feed updates members on their homepage with all of the latest actions of their matches. This includes things like any communication you have received, to your profile getting bookmarked.

Another unique dating tool PerfectMatch started offering was video profiles through Dating on Demand. This allowed members to be featured on TV across the United States through Cox and Comcast Digital cable. For members to participate all they needed to do was attend a free Perfectmatch / Dating On Demand video event (held in major cities). A professional crew at these events will tape your 2 to 5 minute interview of you answering questions about who you are and the type of person you are looking for. If you are unable to attend the event PerfectMatch.com members also have the option to send in their own videos.

PerfectMatch.com is a full featured dating service. In 2010 they continued to innovate and improve their dating site making it the winner of this year's award and a dating site worth checking out.

Read our review of PerfectMatch.com for more information about this online dating service.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: Match.com

SeniorPeopleMeet.com is the recipient of the 2010 Editor's Top Pick - Senior Award. This dating service continued to grow throughout 2010 and has remained one of the most popular services for singles over the age of 45. On average close to 60,000 visitors check out this site every day. All this traffic has made SeniorPeopleMeet.com into a fun and exciting dating community with members who truly are looking for the love of their life.

SeniorPeopleMeet.com is easy to use. It takes just 2 minutes to create your basic profile. Once completed you then can start searching for matches and communicating with any potential dates. All the features are straight forward and simple on the website and if you do run into any problems, then their help system is just one click away.

So, if you are unsure about which dating site to try that caters to mature singles, SeniorPeopleMeet.com should go to the top of your list to try out.

Read our review of SeniorPeopleMeet.com for more information about this dating service or visit Senior People Meet directly.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: Lavalife Prime

While Justin Bieber is trending on Twitter, what's trending in the world of online dating?

According to the Google Barometer Blog, mobile dating is the newest trend sweeping the U.K. Bickey Russell and Elizabeth Song, Senior Industry Analyst and Analyst Intern, respectively, for Google UK, studied the rising popularity of mobile dating and found that "the volume of Google searches on mobile devices related to dating grew by 215% YoY ['Year Over Year'] since 2008" in the UK alone. And, in an even more remarkable turn, "the volume of dating queries on mobile phones shot up ten fold in just three years' time."

As smartphone usage has become increasingly prevalent, the usage of mobile devices - and the constant Internet connectivity they provide - to access dating websites to search for potential matches and answer messages from interested members has become more and more popular. The market is so large, in fact, that Juniper, a market research firm, has estimated that "the overall mobile dating sector will grow to $1.4 billion worldwide by 2013." That's right - $1.4 billion in just three years. Google research has also found that searches from laptops and desktop computers for "mobile dating" and "text dating" have grown over 72% YoY in the UK.

So what can on-the-go online dating do for you? New interactive features are being invented constantly, allowing you to take advantage of countless new online dating opportunities like proximity dating, which uses GPS or Bluetooth technology to alert users when other singles are nearby. Mobile and location dating also introduce a real-life context into the online dating scene, "making the process less detached from users' everyday lives, social networks, and gathering places."

If you're interested in trying mobile dating, you don't have to venture far outside your comfort zone - many major dating sites, like Match, eHarmony, and JDate, have mobile apps available for download. If you're ready for something new, however, check out these popular apps:

1. Meet Moi: Meet Moi is a location-based mobile dating app that updates your location in real-time and alerts you when a match is nearby. Their basic service is free.

2. SpeedDate.com: Members can search through millions of profiles and start conversations via email with prospective matches. SpeedDate provides an advanced set of filters that allows users to search based on specific criteria, as well as a tagging feature that ensures that favorite profiles are saved.

3. Grindr: Grindr is the largest location-based dating app for gay, bi, and curious men. Grindr is free, and has about 600,000 users per month (about 250,000 users per day, who log on approximately eight times within a 24 hour period!).

4. Zoosk: Zoosk won the award for Best Mobile Dating Site at the Internet Dating Conference this year, and is consistently a #1 dating app in the iTunes Store. The app has all of the functionality of the website, with a GPS location tagging feature.

For more information on the service which won the award Best Mobile Dating Site, please read our Zoosk review. For other dating sites which also offer their services over a phone, check out our Mobile Phone Dating category.

Pauly Shore is the spokesman and judge for the new Mate1.com contest. The contest is called "Check Please!" and is designed to find the most awkward date experience. There is $5,000 in prizes and just a few steps required to enter.

• First, you will need a 1 to 2 minute video with you describing or re-enacting your awkward date
• Second, you will need to upload the video to YouTube. You will need to title and tag the video with "Mate1 Check Please! Contest"
• Third, you will need to register as a contestant at CheckPleaseContest.com
• Finally, you need to spread your video through your social channels. The top ten viewed and mentioned videos will be judged by Pauly Shore

Here is Pauly Shore giving more details on the contest as well as his most awkward dating experience:

To find out more about this story you can also read the press release. For more information on this dating site, please read our review of Mate1.com.

The "Are You Interested" Facebook application is owned by SNAP Interactive. This app recently became the largest dating application on Facebook with 13,262,420 monthly active users. Just a month ago they had only around 8,424,000 monthly active users. Snap Interactive also posted 3rd quarter revenues of $1.65 million which was an increase of over 100 percent when compared to the same period last year. With these rising revenue numbers it looks like Snap Interactive new found traffic is of high quality.

The second largest Facebook dating application is Zoosk with 7,514,381 monthly active users. While "Are you Interested" may have a larger Facebook presence, Zoosk still has a much larger overall membership base thanks to the popularity of their dating website. Zoosk Facebook users also get to interact with the members of the dating website, and vice versa.

For more on this story, check out All Facebook. To find out more about dating on Facebook, please take a look at our Facebook Dating reviews category.

For a limited time Perfectmatch.com is offering a full 3-day trial membership for free. Now members can try out the online dating site and be able to create a profile, receiving matches, use the advance search and communication tools (like email). This new promotion will enable singles to see that PerfectMatch is a high quality dating service with a large membership base and is worth joining. Once the trial is almost over members can either cancel the membership or receive a special discount price of $29.95 per month. This is 50% off of PerfectMatch's normal subscription rates.

To find out more about this dating site you can read our review of PerfectMatch.