Resources: Tickle.com

Tickle is the leading interpersonal media company, providing self-discovery, matchmaking, and social networking services to more than 18 million active members in its community worldwide. Formerly known as Emode.com, Tickle was founded on the belief that personal insight and connections to others could be both scientific and fun.

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In collaboration with leading psychology and marketing experts from Harvard, Yale, Duke, Northeastern, Washington University in St. Louis, SUNY at Albany, and The University of Kansas, Tickle was the first company to combine consumer insight with state-of-the-art digital technology to generate personality reports uniquely positioned to offer outstanding results. The company offers more than 200 tests (more than 60 of which are PhD-certified) and is the leading provider of online testing services.

Building on a scientific foundation that helps members learn about themselves and better connect with others, Tickle introduced its matchmaking service in March of 2003 and has quickly reached a critical mass of millions of subscribers. Tickle launched the Tickle Social Network in October 2003. Tickle Social Network is the first social networking product to deliver deep user profiles that go beyond basic demographic data to include group affiliations, career history, and personality traits.

The suite of services that Tickle offers provides the easiest, safest, and most comprehensive experience online. From career advice and personality reports to matchmaking and social networking, Tickle is able to apply science to help members build and manage relationships. Tickle's "Think Tank" of certified PhDs ensures that the sites' services are useful and the content is relevant. Thus, members have access to practical scientific data that helps them to discover themselves, and better connect with others - a combination that makes the platform truly powerful.

With close linkage between all the products, Tickle's members can take full advantage of deep, rich and meaningful data and interact with it in a way that they have never been able to do. The end result is a tight integration of self-discovery, matchmaking, and networking services designed to deliver compelling insight and help people develop and manage new and old relationships from one convenient place.

Tickle offers many applications and features to its online community. These include:

Self-Discovery: Tickle's tests are based on the most current and accurate research available. Each offers thought provoking test questions, personalized analyses, and follow up emails that encourage goal fulfillment and relationship improvement in every area of life. Tickle's free sample reports related to personality and career growth to help members learn more about themselves and their interests, and provide deeper context for them to connect with others.

Matchmaking: Using scientific matching to help members find the most compatible partner, Tickle provides a highly targeted channel to find both romance and friends.

Social networking: The Tickle Social Network provides user profiles that are deep in self-knowledge and self-expression. The unique profiles reflect career/university and other group affiliations as well as qualitative attributes such as personality traits, and career aspirations, resulting from users taking Tickle's tests.

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