The day then became a series of speed-dating style chats with key White House staff on topics like education, the economy, jobs, housing, science, and off course, the elephant in the room: immigration. ❋ Wendy Carrillo (2011)
Not surprisingly, there's a slew of businesses catering to these eligibles, including $35 speed-dating services, $20,000 "executive" find-a-wife outfits, and hybrids such as It's Just Lunch, which charges $1,000 to fix people up with other singles who, one can only assume, are also too busy to eat dinner. ❋ Anne Kadet (2011)
During New York Comic Con, the four-day gathering that wrapped up Sunday at the Jacob Javits Center, Mr. Glitch staged seven speed-dating sessions for 600 lovelorn singles. ❋ Ferdinando Di Fino (2011)
It sponsors speed-dating events and love cruises to encourage marriage that hopefully leads to children. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The program includes employment services and social activities, like club sports, group travel and speed-dating. ❋ Melanie Grayce West (2011)
Borrowing a page from speed-dating events where people spend a few minutes apiece with a bunch of strangers and decide who they want to see later, this app would look at your musical preferences based on your music library, online profile, and maybe a few simple toggle controls and deliver a mini-mix of 30-second samples of songs. ❋ Eliot Van Buskirk (2011)
In studies of online dating, behavioral economist Dan Ariely found that 10% to 20% of those who met briefly in speed-dating settings wanted to go out subsequently, versus only 1% who looked at dating profiles online. ❋ Susan Adams (2011)
That following week felt like speed-dating, music-industry style. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)
Getty Images Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts In the best way, the Tribeca Ball—the benefit for the New York Academy of Art, on Franklin Street—can feel a bit like speed-dating for artists and potential patrons. ❋ Kimberly Chou (2011)
The single best piece is both the funniest and the one with most pathos: Ben Ellis's "Speed Date," in which the wonderful actress Emma Fielding plays a woman with dreadful eczema, trying to reconstruct her life post-9/11 by finding a mate at a speed-dating evening in Kuala Lumpur. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)
Teacher conferences can resemble speed-dating, he said. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)
It looks like people really want smart playlist creators for the car, musical speed-dating, and a way to track the music playing in any app on their phones. ❋ Eliot Van Buskirk (2011)
(I described it to akirlu as like a cross between TED and speed-dating.) ❋ Akirlu (2010)
Just like a speed-dating booth, the Japanese premiership attracts some odd characters. ❋ Michael Auslin (2011)
Mr. Glitch, a retail-display assembler who lives in Canandaigua, N.Y., participated in a failed speed-dating experiment at a smaller convention before trying his own. ❋ Ferdinando Di Fino (2011)
Torsten Blackwood/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Fourteen people took part in a speed-dating event atop the Sydney Tower to mark the holiday. ❋ Unknown (2012)