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Cheek'd

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Cheek'd

Description: Cheek'd is a savvy online social circuit which draws on the age old custom of networking with business cards. The company designs personal cards with clever catch phrases and unique ID numbers which direct card receivers to a brief online profile and photo to learn more about their admirer, and if the recipient wants, may send a message via the Cheek'd internal messaging system. It's like online dating, only backwards.

Twitter: @cheekd
Website: cheekd.com
Location: New York, NY

Luv@FirstTweet

Luv@FirstTweet is a new free online dating service for your Twitter account that is fun, quick, and easy to use. The beauty of Luv@FirstTweet is that you can build your profile anywhere you are. Tweet responses to our profile-building questions while on line at the grocery store, waiting for a cab -- heck, do it if you are bored in a meeting. When you follow @LuvAtFirstTweet, one question a day will show up in your Twitter feed. We will use your responses to match you with someone we think you'll like. The more you answer, the better the match.

Twitter: @luvatfirsttweet
Website: www.luvatfirsttweet.com
Location: New York, NY

Debate It! 60

Get Cheek'd! Take fate into your hands-- get carded and start dating!

Posted By loricheeknyc, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Both good ideas but the nod the has to go to Cheek'd on this one. Love the clever use of new school and old school tech. Cheek'd gets my vote. Good luck to all!

Posted By ggekko, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd ROCKS!

Posted By bina, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Get Cheek'd! Our fate is at your fingertips! --get carded and start dating!

Posted By obsoleteforms, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Congrats to both Cheek'd and Luv@FirstTweet for making it this far!

Be sure to check out the WhoSentIt vs UpLynk match! http://thisorthat.com/t/whosentit-vs-uplynk

Posted By danklynn, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd is the word.

Posted By TravisL., 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd isn't that bad of an idea, but wouldn't it be more financially responsible of me to just give out my phone number on a napkin?

Posted By bobbykriegs, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek has been CHEEK'D!

Posted By suparnab, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'D is making me cheeky and Chicked! :)

Posted By jai2011, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

i'm all cheek'd up and nowhere to go

Posted By philypfeif, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek me!

Posted By wags3671, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

great concept. facebook will be a has-benn!

Posted By alanbnj, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Stinks being up against our friends at Cheekd but let's go Luv@FirstTweet!!

Posted By jon_laft, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Luv@FirstTweet is such a cool dating tool - unique and easy-to-use, it's the future of online dating!

Posted By pumkinpiee, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Get Cheek'd!

Posted By ash5885, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Luv@FirstTweet is such a fantastic concept - free, easy, and innovative. It definitely has my vote!

Posted By sark730, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

WOOHOO

Posted By alanm, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

So confused... do I need to make a comment to submit my vote?

Posted By plaura, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Get Cheek'd...all the cool kids are doing it!

Posted By mollybeal, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Luv@firsttweet gets my vote! It's an easy, fun way to meet people..and it's free!

Posted By charlie4, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

I met my girlfriend on luv@firsttweet

Posted By doctad, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

i just cheek'd this tournament!

Posted By Jdogg, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Can I get a Cheek'd Cheek'd?!!! In the hizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzouse!

Posted By Sissyturnbow, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

LETS GO LOVE!

Posted By JoeJoe, 03-29-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

um, cheek'd is awesome

Posted By MarioG, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

cheek'd, please.

Posted By jnevins, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

i need a date

Posted By larryjenkins23, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Yes for cheek'd

Posted By Text Talks, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Let's do this Cheek'rs!

Posted By morr, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

no question - Luv@FirstTweet!

Posted By sooki, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Clearly Luv@FirstTweet

Posted By wawagirl, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

If YOU have ever been LUCKY enough to be CHEEK'D you would KNOW this is the ONLY way to vote :)
LONG LIVE LOVE XOXO

Posted By Maureen , 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

I'm in love with Cheek'd. All my victims Cheek me.

Posted By jacquesduprey, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

go lori! cheekd rocks

Posted By twisted, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Check in on Cheek'd.com not-so-ordinary little black cards!!

Posted By LarryC, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Get Cheek'd!

Posted By sbenzeno, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

you've been cheek'd

Posted By batesmotel, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

cheek'd yea

Posted By kathy1, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

yea, cheek'd

Posted By dkbrown, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Both dating sites, except Cheek'd costs at least 50 cent per card plus a $10/mth subscription (seriously???). The other one's free. Free wins.

Posted By sh1234, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

This or that? Online or Offline? CHEEK'D!!! Bringing the online back to the streets! Its called Love at First Sight-- remember those days?

Posted By SelinaT, 03-30-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

luv@firsttweet is amazing!!!! ive been on it for 5 days and ive already got a nice date out of it! :)

Posted By noamhazan, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Interesting concept, Luv@FirstTweet, but please consider significant privacy concerns in how you expose users' personal e-mail within the unregulated Twitter environment. (And what about the concept of "opposites attract" in formulating your matches?) Vote is for Cheek'd since they already address both privacy and monetization, but Luv@FirstTweet can iterate through these issues. Good luck to both!

Posted By paliwgroup, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Go Cheek'd

Posted By johnwahl, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Date responsibly! Vote Cheekd

Posted By smalltownsexy, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Luv@firsttweet is the best!!!

Posted By Tammerj, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Luv@First tweet is awesome! Not corny like match.com and its hip! Just to take a simple question to a more amazing conversation!

Posted By acrawford10, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Go Cheek'd

Posted By Sandy Stevenson, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

I agree -Cheek'd is the one

Posted By golfergirl, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Good Luck girl

Posted By rtcrouch, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Best Wishes to Cheek'd

Posted By Papa Jack, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd works for me!

Posted By Coach J, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Are there millions of singles secretly wondering, "Oh, I would LOVE to date, but I don't have 5 minutes of time to fill out a dating profile. If ONLY a dating sign would tweet me at random times so I can fill out my dating profile while at work or going to the bathroom." And is the pain so intense, they're going to be willing to pay money or at least spend lots of time on a Twitter-based dating site so their attention can be sold to advertisers?

If not, my vote is for Cheek'd. :-)

Posted By jdegoes, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

cheek'd ! yes!!!

Posted By rossa, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Have to say.. I wish cheek'd had been my idea.... half of the night mare of online dating is over.. when you can see the person.. ! how cool that part is over..and then you can hopefully connect.. and fall in love.. be friends.. whatever.. It so chic.. and cool.. with no big rejection involved.. !

Posted By catherine johnson, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd all the way!

Posted By mejennu, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd is kickin it!

Posted By mkted, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Love the idea of Cheek'd

Posted By johnwahl, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Cheek'd is the way to go

Posted By patrickpatterson, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Good Job, Cheek'd Team!

Posted By EllenBloomingdales, 03-31-2011 (2 years and 2 months)

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Cheek'd History

Defeated TheIdeaStartup

60%

Crushed GoodEatsFor.Me

71%

Defeated Untappd

53%

Luv@FirstTweet History

Defeated Keepstream

60%

Defeated eEvent

59%

Defeated Commendable Kids

52%

Round 4

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