Thanks to all of our supporters, SpeedDate has been nominated in the ‘Dating and Romance’ category for the Open Web Awards.

Update: Voting ended and we won the Blogger’s Choice Award - thanks for supporting SpeedDate!

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Update: Voting ended and we won the Blogger’s Choice Award - thanks for supporting SpeedDate!

In honor of the U.S. Presidential Election, SpeedDate made available virtual gifts related to politics. Tens of thousands of gifts were sent by our users. We introduced an equal number of gifts related to Obama and McCain. We’ve posted the percentage of each gift sent below. The results are interesting:

• The most sent gift was the ‘Vote Obama’ Badge with 24% (it even beat our default ‘vote’ gift)
• The least sent gift was the elephant that represents the Republican party
• Obama/Dem gifts were sent 51% of the time versus only 9% for McCain/Republican gifts

There’s still time to send more gifts to influence the results right here. Will SpeedDate users mirror the rest of the U.S.?