You and your spouse have split up. You took some time to yourself, and now you're ready to dip your toe back into the dating pool. Maybe you even have someone special in mind.

But you're nervous. It's been a long time since you last played the dating game, and you're worried you might have forgotten some of the rules. It's ok if you feel a little out of your depth right now. You aren't the first person to have to navigate dating after divorce, and you certainly won't be the last.

What you need is a refresher course, a few short lessons on the dos and don'ts of dating to get you back on your feet. Let's start with the don'ts:

1. Don't be afraid of judgment. Are you that person who orders a salad for dinner because you're afraid of what your date will think if you order the steak? Order that steak and stop worrying about it. If a steak-eater is who you really are, that's the person your date should meet. It doesn't do either of you any good to pretend to be someone you're not.
2. Don't stay glued to your smartphone. Emergency calls get a pass, but all other communication can wait. What good is a date if you spend half of it texting your friends and the other half live tweeting about the date's progress? Put the phone away or don't bother leaving home in the first place.
3. Don't get lost in the past. You will be tempted to compare your date to your ex. Resist the temptation. Leave the past in the past, and focus on the exciting future that could be in front of you.
4. And speaking of exes...don't make them the main topic of your dinner conversation. You're moving on, so sound like you're actually ready to do so. Nothing says "needy," "unstable," or "not over the past" like rambling on and on about your ex. There may be things that need to be said about your previous relationships, but the first date is not the time to say them. Save those conversations for later on.
5. Don't rush. You may still be feeling vulnerable at this point. You may find yourself longing to be in a relationship again, and that may make you take steps you're not yet ready to take. There's no hurry. Don't enter a first date expecting anything more than an entertaining evening. The future can wait.\

And most importantly...don't be too hard on yourself. It will all fall into place if you stay focused on learning about yourself, meeting new people, and having fun.

Not long ago, the once-unstoppable Netflix had fallen to only $50 a share. It was a low point in the history of a company billed as the future of film and television, but the lull didn't last. Netflix quadrupled in value over the last seven months and is now back on top, trading at more than $217 a share.

The rise and fall of Netflix is the stuff of legends. "I've never had a stock quadruple in seven months - to my recollection, any way - in my 15 years of managing money," said Whitney Tilson, founder and Managing Partner of Kase Capital. "Back in October, I said, 'I think Netflix this decade is going to be like Amazon last decade - a stock that can just continue to grow and grow with enormous upside optionality.'"

So if Netflix is the new Amazon, then who is the new Netflix?

Spark Networks is ready to step up to the plate. You may not have heard of Spark Networks, but you definitely know the company's two most famous offspring: Christian Mingle and JDate.

Like Netflix before it, Spark Networks is an Internet-based company with nearly unlimited potential. But instead of expending energy to realize all of that potential right away, both Netflix and Sparks chose to channel current profits from an existing lucrative business into a future growth opportunity.

The major difference between Spark Networks and Netflix is size. Spark Networks is a significantly smaller company than Netflix, and though JDate has been around for over a decade and brings in a great deal of money for the company, the Jewish dating site's growth has stopped. Christian Mingle is nearly identical to JDate and targets a much larger market (30 times larger, in fact), but it is not yet profitable.

Tilson is confident that bigger and better things are in store for the company. "Christian Mingle - if you think it's addressing a market 30 times the size of JDate, has upside, you know, that could make this stock a multi-bagger," he says. "It's a pretty exciting growth story." In the last quarter, revenue grew 45% year-over-year, putting Christian Mingle and Spark Networks on a rapid growth trajectory. Add that to the success of JDate, and Tilson expects stock to double.

The question is: what's in the future for the company? The answer depends on who you ask.

Some think Facebook, which recently acquired a new social dating app, could mean the end of Spark Networks. Tilson isn't so sure. He thinks the future of Spark Networks lies with IAC, the company that owns Match.com.

"I think IAC is the most logical buyer for Spark, and it would be a tiny bite-sized acquisition," he says. He considers Facebook. Yahoo, and Google close seconds to purchase Spark Networks and usher in the next era of the company..

To find out more about these 2 dating sites you can read our review of JDate and Christian Mingle.

"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" is solid advice for most every situation, but it rings especially true online. Anyone who has ventured into the untamed Wild West of online dating knows that it comes with certain risks.

Chief among them is the possibility of being ripped off by an unscrupulous Internet scammer. Your rational side knows it's a possibility, but for the most part it's a fear that's relegated to the deeper, darker recesses of your mind. A far as you're concerned, getting scammed is something that happens to other people in the cautionary tales told on the local news. It's not going to happen to you, right?

Odds are in your favor, but it never hurts to be prepared. SeekingArrangement.com recently posted a report called The Face of Fraud to help online daters separate the catches from the catfish. The site reviewed the profiles of 60,000 banned accounts, and discovered that fake profiles tend to have a few things in common. Here are 7 signs you might be looking at the profile of a scam artist:

Zoosk's dazzling rise to fame is the stuff of online dating legends. Over the last five years, Zoosk has evolved into a leader in the industry, and this year it celebrated a major milestone.

On May 22, 2013, Zoosk announced a company record: revenue exceeded $40 million in the first quarter of the year. That's not a bad way to celebrate the half-decade mark...

And that's not all Zoosk has achieved this year. The first quarter of 2013 also saw these breakthroughs for the popular dating site:

• Zoosk experienced a 116% increase in monthly total unique visitors compared to the same period last year.
• The number of monthly active users for Zoosk's mobile products increased more than 200% year-over-year.

Zoosk believes its success can be chalked up to its unique approach to matchmaking and a strong focus on the mobile market. The site set itself apart with its Behavioral Matchmaking engine, which learns users' preferences by observing their behavior on the site. It continuously improves subsequent matching suggestions as it more thoroughly profiles a user, resulting in increasingly better matches and higher levels of engagement with other singles.

The Behavioral Matchmaking engine is driven by three discovery tools:

• Zoosk's Scientific Matchmaking service, a daily introduction to a potential match
• Carousel, a rapid-fire round of profile pictures
• Search functionality that sorts through the millions of profiles on the site

On the mobile front, Zoosk created a variety of mobile applications to meet users' increasing demands for dating on-the-go. The applications are all optimized versions of the site's experience that are frequently updated to provide better and more sophisticated service. Applications are available for Apple devices on iTunes and for Android in the Google Play store.

Zoosk's commitment to mobile has paid off. It consistently ranks as the #1 dating app for the iPhone and iPad, and in Google Play the Zoosk app has been downloaded more than five million times.

"We wanted to bring a no-compromise approach to small screen dating for users on-the-go," said Shayan Zadeh, Zoosk CEO and co-founder. "So instead of designing our mobile product as an extension of our website, we built a brand new experience from the ground up. This mobile-centric design plus our Behavioral Matchmaking engine equals a powerful formula that is driving user adoption."

Congratulations to Zoosk on their stellar start to 2013. Can't wait to see what the rest of the year has in store...

For more on this dating site you can read our review about Zoosk.

I just got an "Upgrade your POF Account" email. After reading it I was only a little surprised to find even more free features of POF for paid members only.

These features includes reading date feedback, hottest girls that reply, and viewing extended profiles. Features that are new and for upgraded members only include standing out in all searches (highlighted) and seeing who viewed your profile after you voted yes or maybe on.

The last time we found Plenty of Fish removing free member features was in December of 2012 and this was for knowing when a user was last online (very important when using a dating site).

I wonder what is next on the chopping block? Does anyone have any guesses?

There's yet another dating app that's taking advantage of the power of Facebook. And why not? With all the connective power the social network has, why wouldn't companies capitalize on it to help people find love?

"You Should Totally Meet" is an app that helps you play cupid among your Facebook friends, introducing them to each other to see if they hit it off. (I guess you could say it's like setting two of your friends up on a blind date, but in a cool-because-it's-digital kind of way).

So, if you've been dying to set up your single friend Sally, you can be her wing-woman and set up a profile through the app. It allows you to list reasons why you think Sally would be so amazing to date. Then your other Facebook friends can agree or disagree with your assessment.

When the profile is complete, you can scroll through your list of friends and see if there's anyone you want to introduce Sally to, and then let them take it from there. As in real life, there's either a connection or there's not.

I met my husband through a mutual friend on Facebook, so I'm all about tapping into your network to see what can happen. But really, let's call this app for what it is - you're setting your friend Sally up, and you are playing cupid here, not some dating website. So you better be sure to run it by her before she starts getting emails and friend requests from people she doesn't know.

As cool as this app sounds, I wouldn't replace online dating with it. Although the company claims that it's a less awkward, more organic dating experience than meeting a stranger for coffee, it's also limited to your friend's circle of friends.

It's good to keep your options open when it comes to meeting people. Online dating, mobile dating, and plain old-fashioned ways like approaching the cute guy at your local bar are effective ways to meet more people, especially those outside of your network that you'd otherwise never come across.

Of course, online dating means meeting people without any mutual friends to help vouch for them. And sometimes in dating we like to know what we're getting. References are good, because they put us more at ease. We like to hear that Sally is a cool girl before we meet.

So, try it out. But don't drop your online dating membership.