And now the iPhone will get you laid

Dating site OkCupid has completed a study about its users’ smartphones and sexual history and has determined that among people who use smartphones, iPhone users have the most sexual partners, followed by BlackBerry users and finally Android users.

OkCupid looked at the data hidden in the images that users uploaded as profile pictures to see which cameras were used to take them — including smartphone cameras. With many of the site’s users also having taken personality tests like “The Dating Persona Test” or “The Slut Test,” which ask for a count of sexual partners, the site was able to cross-reference that data to complete the study.

In one approach, the survey sample was restricted to people aged 30. That way, differences in the usual ages of users of one smartphone type or another couldn’t affect the results. Among Android users aged 30, the average man had accumulated six sexual partners in his lifetime, while the average woman had accumulated 6.1. Among BlackBerry users, the number was 8.1 for men and 8.8 for women. Male iPhone users had 10 sexual partners and female iPhone users had 12.3We’ve included OkCupid’s chart for that data below. We’ve also included another chart in which OkCupid mapped out and compared smartphone owners by age from 18 up through 40. While the sizes of the gaps varied, the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android rankings remained the same.

This data was tagged on as a bonus on a blog post about which cameras, camera settings and photography techniques resulted in the most attractive profile pictures. As you might have guessed, the higher the camera quality, the better the result in many cases.

The post is just the latest in a series of fascinating studies by OkCupid based on user data. In the past, the OkCupid blog debunked several of the biggest dating profile picture myths and found the ideal first message length for would-be lovers.

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Amazon has been robbed

You often hear about Amazon Web Services having some downtime issues, but it’s rare to see Amazon.com itself have major issues. In fact, I can’t ever remember it happening the past couple of years. But that’s very much the case today as for the past couple of hours the service has been switching back and forth between being totally down and being up, but showing no products.

Obviously, Twitter is abuzz about this — though there’s no word from Amazon on Twitter yet about the downtime. Amazon Web Services, meanwhile, all seem to be a go, according to their dashboard. The mobile apps on the iPhone, iPad and Android devices are sort of working, but it doesn’t a

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ppear you can go to actual product pages.

Photobucket goes mobile

In the world of online photo storage and sharing, there’s really no name quite as big as Photobucket. Long before the names Flickr and Picasa made their marks, Photobucket was already racking up users worldwide. Presently, over 100 million people choose Photobucket to store and share their photos, and the company has a new focus on mobile that is being done right.

As of today, Photobucket has released a new BlackBerry application that is showing off that mobile focus. Since merging with Ontela back in December, Photobucket has gotten some new funding and this new application is one of the products of that.

Blackberry users can now easily upload and download from the site, browse the “Find Stuff” content categories and search Photobuckets over seven billion public images and photos.

Photobucket is very quick to point out that the mobile applications mean much more than just what’s on the surface. As I said, Photobucket has a new focus on mobile.

I had a chance to speak with Rob Newton, from Photobucket, and he had this to add:

“Mobile is truly a vehicle to bring more users and usage of our site, and also is showing people that Photobucket is much more than a warehouse for image storage; it is a cross-platform multi use social networking utility that allows people to do more than ever before with their images, and from anywhere they have cell coverage.”
Ready to get in on it? Head over to your BlackBerry App World and search up Photobucket. Though the BlackBerry application is the newest, there are also versions for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

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Grooveshark to smash Looz before it gets big

On-demand music service Grooveshark has a nice promotion going on for former users of the now shut down Lala site: one free month of premium VIP service. Cloud storage and streaming service Lala was shut down at the end of May after being acquired by Apple, prompting some to surmise that the latter company intends to bring an online music storage component to iTunes.
The promotion is intended to “help ease the pain” of ex-Lala users, who received iTunes store credit for the music purchases they’d made but have lost access to their Lala libraries. The Grooveshark VIP service, normally $3 a month, removes all advertisements from the music streaming site as well as providing access to a desktop client and to mobile apps for the Android, BlackBerry and webOS platforms and for jailbroken iPhones.

Former Lala members who want to take advantage of the offer can head to Grooveshark, answer a few questions mostly about their listening habits, and get immediate access to the VIP service. A spokesperson for Grooveshark told us this promotion will be available “indefinitely.”

What do you think of this promotion? If you’re an ex-Lala user, will you take advantage of the offer?

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