Thanks, amarcus, but I needed cities too.

Thanks, guys/girls. Looking at the forums on geonames it seems like it's over kill and that it may be slow reading such a large database, and mondial seems to be the same. I think I may spend a day or two typing in the countries and cities myself!

Yep. That's what I thought. Thanks. Surely, if someone did this, s/he could charge a little for it to all the other developers out there.

This won't help with the current symptoms you have, but when you've recovered:

The best thing you can do is to switch hands frequently through the day. The second best thing you can do is work out in the gym regularly. This will strengthen your fingers, wrists and arms.

I use the back of business cards. They're tough enough to sit on, easy to carry and small enough not to write too much.

Why don't you do a small prototype in both, and see where each one takes you? I'm not really a programmer, but I've got a dating web app running on around 50 pages of php.

Nope. I use http://talkaboutadate.com/about/greg. It just might get me a date. ;)

Yep. That's what I thought. Thank you. I did say _whitehat_ only in the project I posted on getafreelancer. By the way what's OT?

Whitehat? Maybe I misunderstand what you're asking. I thought you were just trying to find places to announce a new online dating app - am I wrong?

OT = Off Topic.

I am trying to announce a new dating app. It's just that when I first posted the project yesterday at getafreelancer.com the bids I got seemed to be the spam kind. So, today I added 'whitehat only' to the project description. I also added the requirement to 'write new ads around the basic template - in good english - and post to around 5 - 10 cities a day.' I'm trying to make it a legit promotional project. Here's the url: https://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/269701.html. This is what I meant when I said 'borderline' in my original post. Thanks, again.

AH, ok. The postings to elance.com, etc, are for people to write ads for you.

Gotcha. That's no problem. I think Elance even has a category for writers and marketing-type stuff.

You might also try Craigslist job postings.

Thanks again. That's good to know.

I can see how to do it via a custom-crafted URL, but not in the interface...

It's based on twitter's functionality, but, we just launched, so it'll develop from there. There is no filtering yet. Right now we're providing a place for 'datees' to talk to each other. You just don't get that on other dating sites.

Because other sites recognizes that communication is two things: asymmetric between guys/gals and a premium feature, so they charge for it.

Yep. They sure do.