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Chemistry is having a free weekend again soon. It runs for 3 days and starts Friday November 19 and ends Sunday November 21. During this free communication weekend all users will be able to communicate by sending emails at no cost and with no credit card required. Creating a profile and receiving matches are also always free at Chemistry.com.

These free weekends at Chemistry always means it will be extra busy at the dating site since more singles will be visiting to take advantage of the free promotion. Chemistry also steps up their marketing efforts by advertising the free weekend on TV.

The last free communication weekend was held in October (see Story). This upcoming one will be Chemistry.com's 11th they have run. For more information on this online dating site that matches you with members based on personality, you can read our Chemistry.com review.

In April, 2010 Zoosk released an instant messenger program for both Mac and PC computers. Well, ZooskTV released a video recently showing us a bit more about this free communication software and how it all works.



Not only does the Zoosk Messenger act as an instant messenger between Zoosk members (Zooskers), it also streams your activities feed and allows you to receive flirts in real-time. You can also search for old and potential new friends through the program as well.

To find out more about this popular online dating site, you can read our review of Zoosk.

Women don’t need to apologize more often than men, and yet they do.

According to a study recently released by psychologists at The University of Waterloo in Ontario, women apologize because they feel as if they’ve done something requiring an apology. Men are just as willing to apologize, but only for what they feel deserves an apology. The difference is that men have a “higher threshold” for bad behavior.

The study showed that men and women both apologized 81% of the time when they felt they had committed a wrongdoing. However, when subjects were asked to rate the severity of the offences (like waking a friend up in the middle of the night), female respondents offered 35% more apologies than male respondents, and believed they committed offenses worth apologizing for 30% more of the time. Women also said they’d been offended nearly 50% more often then men.

Apparently, the biggest gap in perspective appeared from those in romantic relationships. Female respondents currently in relationships identified three times as many offenses as men did.

Social psychologist Karina Schumann who lead the study noted: “rather than assuming that your partner can read your mind or read your emotions accurately, you need to communicate to the partner what you’re experiencing.”

The study was conducted among 33 male and 33 female students at the University of Waterloo, where they were asked to record all of their interactions with others over a 12-day period, and what they considered offensive and worthy of an apology.

Kudos to Match.com for listening to their members.

On their official blog Match.com talks about the latest release of their popular iPhone dating app (version 1.8.1). Apparently the new version included banner ads at the bottom of the app interface. Match.com members complained about it and Match.com listened to their feedback. Five days after the release of the new version, all ads were removed from the iPhone dating application.

In the post Match.com also mentions that members using matchMobile has doubled in the last six months. I am not surprised by this statistic. The new mobile dating apps are a great way to access the dating site and I I wouldn't be surprised if usage doubles again in another 6 months.

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

Well, we have completed point number 2 from our Dating Sites Reviews - New Features and Updates! story. The Dating Site Top Ten lists have been redone. They now are completely dynamic ranking each dating site and/or service at the point when the visitor views the page. All dating services are also included in the rankings with the exception of ones that have gone out of business or have as yet been categorized.

While we were at it, our full Online Dating Site Reviews list was upgraded as well. Instead of the entire catalogue of categories and dating services being displayed, we now offer a convenient dropdown control on the page that allows visitors to view each dating site category separately on one page.

Stay tune for more updates. We plan to finish our new advance Dating Site Search Engine by the Christmas Holidays.

eHarmony.com is having a free communication event and it starts today! The event is 10 days long and will run to Sunday November 14th ending at midnight (Pacific Time).

For this event, members will be able to create a profile, review matches and be able to connect with those matches using the eHarmony Guided Communication process. At no point will you need a credit card. The only things not included are Fasttracking the guided communication process, eHarmony Mail and viewing of members profile pictures.

This current free communication event will be eHarmony's 30th. The last one occurred in October (see Story).

On a related note, eHarmony Canada is also having free communication event. It is a month long and it starts Nov 1st and ends Nov 30th at midnight.

To find out more about this online dating site designed for people looking for long-term relationships, you can read our review of eHarmony.