Free Online Dating Site OkCupid.com Launches New Application on Facebook(R) Platform.Downloads of OkCupid's application double every day as viral Meaning "related or caused by a virus," with regard to computers and information technology, the term refers less to a computer virus than it does to information that spreads quickly via the Internet. See viral marketing and viral video. growth takes hold; Facebook users take dating quiz A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills. and compare scores NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- OkCupid.com, America's largest and fastest growing free online dating site, today announced the availability of a new quiz application on the Facebook Platform The software environment for developing Facebook applications. It includes a programming interface (API), an HTML subset called "Facebook Markup Language" (FBML), a JavaScript variation called "Facebook JavaScript" (FBJS) and an SQL-based query language called "Facebook Query Language" , a platform that enables companies and developers to build applications for the Facebook website. Downloads of the OkCupid application have grown ten-fold in the last five days and will only accelerate as more features are added to the application. The new OkCupid application, http://apps.facebook.com/okcupid/, lets Facebook users add their OkCupid personality type to their Facebook profile. Next week, Facebook users will be able to take any of OkCupid's 30,000 relationship and lifestyle quizzes and compare their results with their Facebook friends. OkCupid's quizzes, which cover topics ranging from politics to religion and relationships to rock and roll, have been taken 30,000,000 times. Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to integrate with Facebook and gain access to millions of users. More than 50 percent of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people's lives. With more than 45 million active users, Facebook is the sixth-most trafficked website in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . "We are excited to see that the OkCupid application has achieved exponential growth Extremely fast growth. On a chart, the line curves up rather than being straight. Contrast with linear. in such a short period of time," said Sam Yagan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of OkCupid. "So many people dream about their applications getting 'viral'; but we have engineered it into our application. The OkCupid application adds meaningful and interesting content to Facebook users' profiles, but more importantly, Facebook users can't resist comparing scores with their friends." About OkCupid OkCupid is the largest free online dating site in the United States. OkCupid's 500,000 active users have answered over 223 million questions on what matters most to them in relationships. Unlike any other personals site, OkCupid uses this information and advanced mathematical algorithms The following is a list of the algorithms described in Wikipedia. See also the list of data structures, list of algorithm general topics and list of terms relating to algorithms and data structures. to match users together. For additional information or to join OkCupid, please visit http://www.okcupid.com. Facebook[R] is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. |
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