Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Profile photo

To add profile photo, you should go to edit profile page and select photo tab. There you can upload you photo.

There shall be light!

Now you can put a picture in your profile.

Monday, February 8, 2010

302>300

The number of registred users has out numbered the number of questions!

Monday, February 1, 2010

Use your Google account

Your Google profile provides you an OpenID identifier. There are a few simple steps, before you can use it.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

300 questions!

A comment from a friend:

"The number of questions in your website is more than the number of users!"

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match

Do you think you are a matchmaker? You can enjoy closenes as well.
First do a search on the website. Then on the result page, pick a result and click on "view as" link. From now on, you will see the world through the eyes of that user. Now, If you see a profile, it includes the comparison of personality traits of the selected users. So you can find him/her a match and introduce them, while listening to the matchmaker song from Fiddler on the roof movie:

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch...

Friday, November 6, 2009

What is BMI?

closenes is the first dating site that uses Body Mass Index (BMI) to classify body types (slim, average, overweight and etc) in a quantitative way. It is useful when you are looking for a partner of certain body type.

Some people prefer partners within certain range of physical characteristic. For example, a man, average build, 175 cm and 73 kg is looking for a woman, average build, 175-160 cm.
Usually dating site put height and weight among the search criteria. At first it looks fine, but it has a problem. If our man searches for a woman who is in the range of 175-160 cm and 48-70 kg, the search will return women with different body types, like a slim woman 175 cm, 49 kg or an overweight woman 160 cm, 70 kg. Now the big question: how can we just keep the results who have a certain body type?

This problem has a nice and elegant solution. We can use height and Body Mass Index (BMI) to perform a search. BMI is your mass in Kg divided by square of your height in meter. BMI represents body type regardless of height and weight:

BMIbody type
16-19underweight
18-25normal
25-30overweight
30-45obese class I


So the man of our story first goes to his profile page where his BMI of 24 is already calculated, then he searches for a woman 175-160 cm and BMI between 23-25. The search engine takes care of the rests and returns people with the desired body type.