WooMe, the site that throws users into 60-second one-on-one online video sessions to form new relationships, is launching a new public version of the site that should appeal to the voyeur in all of us. The site will now allow users to post recordings of their brief dating sessions to the public in a portion of the site dubbed “WooMe TV”.
Following each dating session, users will be asked if they’d like to post a recording of their chat to WooMe TV. If both parties agree, the video is posted to the public (everything is opt-in).
At first, the idea sounds a little bizarre. WooMe (and other online dating sites) are appealing because it’s so easy to escape a awkward introduction or an botched joke - just close the browser window and pretend that it never happened. Sharing these special moments with the public is probably the last thing some users will want to do .
But some of these chats can be pretty hilarious (in my own testing, I am often left cracking up after particularly awkward exchanges), and there should be a fair number of users brave enough to share their romantic adventures. Provided the site doesn’t get overrun with “fake dates” - users who are just trying to be silly just so their video will become popular - WooMe TV could provide a very funny (and perhaps even insightful) perspective of the dating world.
We should note that while WooMe seems best suited for online dating, it is also used to establish new, more platonic relationships. The site is a direct competitor to SpeedDate, a video dating site that has recently been caught using some deceptive tactics on Facebook to gain users.
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Interesting concept, although it seems more like group flirting rather than dating. It’s amazing to see how far people will take technology into their lives, but if it works and they find a suitable partner from an online site, more power to them.
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Woome TV is a great concept and a great business plan–it’s certain to go viral very rapidly.
I couldn’t stomach dating online at all, not even via video. If you are doing that already, and it wasn’t too embarrassing, why not post it? It’s good to laugh at oneself.
I had access to the beta test of this. While i’m too shy to post my own sessions, it was incredible how much you could learn about other people by watching them interact.
it is much more telling than any profile you could fill out.
17.4mn in funding. wow. are they developing some new technology? why so much money? do you know who led the rounds? seesmic and others can do a quick spin on this. i’m shocked.
They can’t woo me to use it. Sorry!
So, they are using youtube to host the publicized sessions? Not sure what to think about that and these videos are months old. If you want to check out some rather uneducated strangers talk:
This guy (californian i think) doesnt know where ohio is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6MUZgXOLYo
This guy strikes a pose hoping to land a threesome (sounds like he will be, but):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxyx8RLKJ8o
There’s some others in the related too if you have time to kill.
No they’re not. They’re hosting on their own site it seems. Likely there will be ability to upload to youtube. They’d better otherwise where’s the virality.
It is possible you are brain-dead, and can’t understand simple concepts, or you are trolling. While on their site, if you watch these previously recorded sessions, it is clearly the youtube player.
You are clearly a retard. Its not the YouTube player. They have their own player which they embed on their page. The videos CAN be posted elsewhere but on the WOOME site its THEIR player.
Those are some ugly ass women
@Andrew - why don’t you post a seesmic response so we can be blessed with your perfect facial structure
else, let’s not criticize, k.
just saying if you are going to front page someone where they can get screen captured, you need to put in some effort to put your best foot forward.
Um, right, b/c one can not judge attractiveness unless one is attractive. Just STFU Thomas, this ain’t disneyland. Suck it up.
@Larry - settle down there tough guy.
judge all you want, but when you POST publicly about someone’s looks, it shows what a coward you are if you are not willing to subject yourself to same kind of criticism
so i’m really curious to see the dime pieces you guys are pulling in if you think the ones in the videos are unattractive (a seesmic video with them would suffice)
Anyone try this service?
this is fun.
i really have to try this.
You don’t have to try this… IMO you’ve got a really pretty face, so skip the online dating and just go to your local bar/club. =)
I second RICK!! Real gud!
i’ve heard about the site since their launch at tc40 last year and figured they had a trick up their sleeve given the $$$$ raised to date. vertically integrated content production, editing and distribution of “micro” introductions? sounds compelling when you think of the voyeuristic nature of people. they just broadened addressable market 10x overnight, by opening the site from those who play , 18-25 year old singles, to those that WISH they could be playing on site, relogated to watch instead = everyone else.
Some of those videos are pretty damn funny, beats the hell out of the reality tv i get on NBC. I love the notion of exploiting the interactions people have… so long as those people have a say in it.
cool site - woome doesn’t seem like a heavy dating site, but more like a social network. or at least the video content on the homepage is pretty casual and playful.
I’m actually not too excited about video dating. There are a lot of great uses for online video, but for anyone who is extrovert enough to post a video of themselves would probably fare better simply going to a local club or bar/lounge.
IMO, video is great for the promotion of businesses, products, services.. but not so much for dating in which a continuous, face-to-face conversation should take place between two parties.
haha, you act as if the participants’ whole relationship takes place online.
the same way people get to see a greater number of the products your site offers through your video ads is directly related to being able to meet more people online and lets you decide if you want to meet them face-to-face.
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