Are You Ready To Be Wooed?

In this hungry web world, dating sites are nothing new, but for this new kid on the block, their change in focus has transformed them into something new and refreshing - WooMe.

Instead of sorting through a massive pool of users, themed sessions are controlled by management, but created by the users who sign up for them. Each session has a designated number of spots, which assign one minute per person. After that, you move on. If you connect and want to talk more, a private message will facilitate further communication. So unlike any other dating site, you are finding people to interact with, instead of finding people to date. You may find the one though…

As said, you get one minute to exchange pleasantries over webcam, and then you can choose between graciously rejecting the hopeful or ask for a private message. You get five free one-minute sessions before you have to pay to get in touch further with your chosen date. It also has a social networking side to it; you’re not totally expected to be dating but can make friends this way too.

Session topics range from singles looking to mingle by geographical area, all the way to folks trying to find babysitters or nannies. You can also scope out who has signed up to be a part of the session before you throw yourself in the mix. To help schedule the sessions, users can set a time when they want it to start. In order to aid users in remembering they have signed up, users can set up a 10-minute e-mail alert, but there are also plans to add SMS and IM reminders (via a bot) to help users get a ping before a session is about to begin.

Are you shy, and don’t want to be seen? In addition to video, users can also opt for voice chat correlates with whatever picture they have associated with their WooMe account.

WooMe intends to make the majority of their money via advertising, which is where some cool advertising techniques come into play. As users join sessions, the service keeps track of what they are interested in, and will attempt to serve up contextually relevant video ads while users are waiting to connect to someone, which is after every minute.

For this one of a kind internet-dating site, I think it will definitely become quite a hit, despite the overabundance of dating sites already. This one adds unique features that stand it out from the rest, and that is very important these days.

So are you ready to be wooed?