by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Technology
Device reputation firm iovation did some research and found that the online dating fraud rate originating from Europe grew 357% between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012. The exact breakdown was: Q1 2011 = .22 Q2 2011 = .50 Q3 2011 = .66 Q4 2011 = .73 Q1 2012 = 1.02 This is great...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
I just got back from a weekend meditation retreat. At one point there were 24 of us sitting on cushions in a room overlooking the mountains of New York State, with an amazing sunset and all of a sudden I felt 100% connected with everyone in the room on a level...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
When I met Maria Coder a few years ago, she was writing about online dating for the Examiner blog network. Today, Maria runs Investidate, a service which offers workshops focused on making sure your date is who they say they and how to navigate the complicated world...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Mobile Dating
Several years ago I met Christian and (at the time) Redg at Skout, think it was iDate. After talking to them a while I wanted to help them out with fundraising, so I went to the usual suspects and sat in on some investor meetings on Skout’s behalf. Nobody was...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Profiles & Matching
While we wait for society and dating sites to figure out how to do video profiles and videochat, the dating industry has had one option when it comes to getting past static profiles. OmniDate, which many readers will remember from iDates past, was the only pure-play...