DoYouDo, Inc. is a Beverly Hills, California company that owns the patent to an anonymous matching service designed to detect mutual attraction between friends or acquaintances based on confidential lists they create of people they are interested in.
A 2000 Business Wire article noted: The doYOU2.com service currently focuses on teens, helping them to avoid the risk of rejection and peer pressure inherent in developing friendly and romantic relationships.
DoYOU2.com is designed to empower teens and others to freely express themselves in a fearless and fun way.DoYou2.com's failure to catch on widely may have been due to the implementation of the scheme.
The firm was acquired by Matchnet.com in September 2000 for an undisclosed sum, dependent on certain success parameters, to be paid completely in MatchNet shares.
At present, MatchNet has kept the DoYou2 site dormant and our DoYouDo, Inc. subsidiary has no operations.The patent's description notes: Human relationships are often fraught with difficulties.
Often, even when two people want to initiate first steps in a relationship, neither person takes action because of shyness, fear of rejection, or other societal pressures or constraints.
In Sudai and Blumberg's "Love Detector" system described in their patent, users log in and enter a confidential list of friends and acquaintances who they are attracted to.
The patent described several variations of the system, including one in which a user can choose to be notified 24 hours later; e.g., to allow time for the man to make the first move.