There are two things that deserve to be reconsidered at Drive By Dating – an Australian automotive dating site.

1. In much of the world, being involved in a drive-by is a bad thing
2. Their logo reminds me of something I can’t quite put my finger on…

UPDATE: This could be very, very clever marketing indeed. Those Aussies…

If you’ve written mail to my vooji.com email address and had it bounce back sorry. As of right now, that address is working and I’d still love to hear from you. Technology is hard sometimes…

Some people are having problems recording profiles with Vooji. I do not want this to happen, here’s how to fix it.

When you click to record your profile you’ll see this Flash pop-up.

Don’t panic. Click ‘Allow’ and you should see your webcam image and a flickering line of red bulbs whenever you make a noise. If so great, everything’s fine, if not put your mouse over the gray video box and right-click. You’ll see a menu, select the “Settings…” option and you’ll see something like this:

Choose the webcam tab (shown above) if it’s not selected already. You now need to select your webcam from the menu. If you have a Mac, like me, you might have a few. Your iSight cam is called “USB Video Class Video” for some reason only Adobe understands. Choose that and you’re webcam tab will look like this:

Now all you need to do is click close and you should see your pretty mug and be ready to record. If you don’t have a Mac, or this doesn’t work, repeat the steps and select each of the cams in your list in turn until one starts working. Remember to close the Flash pop-up, your changes won’t have any effect until you do.

Great – I look forward to seeing your profile, and all your potential dates do too (next week!)

Still having problems? Let me know.

Sam.

Vooji’s a work in progress and we’re always working on rolling out improvements and tweaks. A couple of people have said:

“I love the design but I think other people might not.”

Does anyone who doesn’t like the design care to tell me more about why? Anyone who loves it keen to do the same? I’m listening.

Thanks to your feedback we’re already working on ways of making recording a Vooji profile easier. Until those changes are in place I’ll tell you that the ‘Photo’ button, which looks like a Polaroid, allows you to shoot a new photo to go along with your profile. Be default we choose an image from halfway through your profile. If you don’t like the automatic selection just click ‘Photo’ and take another.

Not recorded a profile yet? What are you waiting for…?

You can now record a Vooji profile in advance of the beta opening. This is a good idea because:

1. You’ll get to secure the account name of your choice (that can include spaces too).
2. You’ll get $10 in credit as a thank-you
3. You’ll be guaranteed a beta invite
4. Being first is cool

The profile set-up form is here. It takes less than 2 minutes, try it on for size.