Nerve Dating – Do you use online dating? Come on now, don’t be shy! Did you know 1 in 8 couples who got married last year in the US met online? It’s getting more and more socially acceptable to use the internet to find flings, dates, love and marriage. But many e-dating sites are still inaccessible and, in all honesty, a little bit embarassing! Nerve Dating has taken note of this to create more of a social network feel around the e-dating meet market. To borrow directly from the words of its creators: “Think fewer awkward “About Me” essays, and more conversations about what you did last night and what you thought of latest buzzed about restuarants.”

I really like this idea, being a proponent of online dating myself. It makes it much easier to fill out a profile, because you’re answering one-liner questions on your opinions and habits that pop up in very user-friendly places on the webpage. They’re actually quite fun to answer, and this feed of answers on your profile in turn gives a potential date an easy way of starting conversation with you. The usual suspects of online dating remain – your profile picture and stats for example – but again these are very easy to complete. All in all, if you do date online, this is a new, different approach worth your attention. It’s for anyone to use, whether you’re interested in men, women or both, and it’s free to fill out a profile. You only have to pay the $20 monthly fee to get the absolute most out of the site.

So click here (or on my tongue-in-cheek effort at a profile below!) and see if you can find a date in your area.

Nerve Dating - a new, social network-style approach to online dating: hope you like my profile!

If you want to find all the best sites on the web for women… or the best sites for men… check out our awesome All My Faves homepages. There’ll be something in there you’ll like, guaranteed!

Foodie.com, by online lifestyle publisher Glam Media, is a site that’s launched with very grand aims: to become a Facebook/Twitter hybrid… for food! Before you start groaning at yet another social network however, this does seem to have a reason to exist. For a start, you couldn’t say with much conviction that Facebook or Twitter provide a real niche towards food, recipes and restaurant sharing. And that’s exactly what Foodie provides.

This social basis enables Foodie.com to become a sort of interactive food magazine: you can browse delicious looking pictures of new and exciting recipes currently. And you have the ability to follow and interact some of the world’s most exciting chefs, who will post recipes and ideas on their feed; as well as top restaurant lists and shareable menus. All sounds rather delectable if you ask me! Click here or on the big pic below to join this fast growing foodies’ network.

Foodie allows you to follow top food writers & chefs, as well as get inspiration for meals in and out with tasty recipes

Don’t forget to check out our All My Faves Recipes Faves Page – with some great sites that any food enthusiast would salivate over (or just find some good ideas for tonight’s meal!).

This site + app actually pays you to go to the Gym... and fines if you don't!

Gym-Pact – The unmistakable allure of splashing out on an expensive gym membership is something many of us just can’t resist, with the opportunity to transform from Mr.Measly to Mr.Muscle too good to pass up. However, we don’t tend to factor in the likelihood that after joining, the most difficult weight to actually pick up is, well, ourselves. Sometimes we need just that little bit of extra motivation to get up and go. And that’s where Gym-Pact.com comes in, ensuring that the couch potato in you will remain firmly locked away until after you’ve been to the gym!

Bureau of Trade – If you’re into making new and interesting discoveries (which you hopefully are if you like reading about our website and app discoveries each week on here!), then you may love this site.

Readability - Read articles more comfortably, without all the added online clutter; save them for later

Readability is a free downloadable service aimed at making web-pages and articles more visually accessible and reader friendly, as well as allowing users to save and send articles they may want to go back to later. Particularly on smart phones, cluttered internet pages make reading good, interesting articles or blogs a far more stressful and uncomfortable experience than they should be.

With Readability, readers can extract articles from a busy webpage, and see it on a clear, in a customised style and font size, without any distractions. It makes reading online a far more relaxed, organic experience. Readability also allows users to save articles for later, or send them to an Amazon Kindle, leaving its users feeling organised and refreshed, and not frantically searching through Google for an article that seems to have been cleansed from the web, just to personally inconvenience you. Readability’s video gives a clear visual of how it works – simple, easy, readable. Click here to get to the Readability website.

A Future Cult Classic in the Free Online Games World? Quite possibly...

Cuboy: Back to the Cubeture 2 – our free online game of the week – is at times hilarious, at others incredibly bizarre, but nearly always engaging and entertaining to play.

The potential next phenomenon to swarm over the iPhone photosphere, Cinemagram (cinemagr.am) fuses still photography with moving video to create a moving photo, or a partially still video…or whatever you want to call it. Either way, being able to animate a photo you’ve taken is really very clever, and it gives photographs posted online an extra dimension, literally.

Houseparty.com – When is the last time you attended – or hosted – a house party with a great theme, that was fun, different… and mostly paid for by a famous brand? If you have, there’s a good chance it was organized by our latest Weekly Fave, Houseparty.com.

Sortable – There’s so many seemingly great cameras, phones, laptops, TVs and other electrical goods out there, crying out for you to spend your hard earned cash on. But how often do you get home only to be a little disappointed with the product you chose? How often does it not quite fit your perfect requirements? And how often is that down to the fact that the salesperson was in fact selling you the product their store wants you to buy?!

Headspace Meditation – This, friends, is meditation for the internet generation. This isn’t some kooky class that your mother-in-law once went to and now insists you attend every other week, with a hippie instructor leisurely guiding you along the road to ‘nirvana’. Not at all.

This is an online program and free iPhone app designed out of cutting edge, scientific research, that appreciates the busy life you live. Headspace doesn’t want to make any drastic changes. It simply wants to help a modern generation for whom time is an all-too-elusive commodity take just 10 minutes out each day, follow some simple techniques and exercises, and help to enhance our busy lives by making us less stressed, more clear thinking and more motivated.

So before you start thinking i’ve gone all spacey, telling you about the inner calm I’ve been feeling over the last few days, take a look at the Headspace program. It’s led by zen-like, yet relate-able, Buddhist Brit Andy Puddicombe, and you get a series of beautifully animated, daily videos to start you off on the road to a clearer, more motivated mind. The video above on the benefits of meditation is a preview of the sort of short video you’ll be getting when you sign up for the 10 day trial Headspace offers. And you can click here to explore whether Headspace could help you get your mind in order!

Everybody loves a good jam!

ThisIsMyJam.com – We’ve all got one. A favorite tune. That song you just can’t stop listening to on your fave online music streaming site.

Udemy – We’ve been very enthusiastic about some of the great video-based education sites popping up around the web recently. Grovo – the site that creates groovy video tutorials to some of the net’s most popular services – of course won our coveted Best Education Site of 2011. And Udemy is fast becoming a contender for the 2012 crown!