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Blogs & Podcasts

Cupidcast Interview: Engage.com

by David Evans on May 2, 2008   in Blogs & Podcasts, speeddating

Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]

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Engage.com on CupidCast Radio

by David Evans on May 1, 2008   in Blogs & Podcasts

It’s Thursday, which means we’re taping another episode of Cupidcast.
Tonight the CEO Series continues with Suneet Wadhwa, founder and CEO of Engage. Darwin and I sit down with Suneet to talk about online dating, Engage’s approach and what advantages daters have mixing it up on Engage.
I’m excited to announce that Trish McDermott, VP of Love, [...]

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Cupidcast Internet Radio Launches

by David Evans on April 27, 2008   in Blogs & Podcasts

Several weeks ago I was approached by a gentleman named Darwin Stephenson to participate in a new Internet radio show about dating.
Today I’m proud to announce the launch of CupidCast, the Internet Radio & Podcast Dating Show. CupidCast is part of the STUDIO [darwin] radio network.
CupidCast is a weekly Internet Radio Talk-Show and Podcast covering [...]

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Chemistry.com Launches The Great Mate Debate

by David Evans on April 25, 2007   in Blogs & Podcasts

Hot on the heels of the Eharmony Labs launching the Hot Science Blog, today Chemisty.com launched The Great Mate Debate. Each week, Chemistry will ask experts their opinions about relationships in America. Why does Chemistry use the phrase “relationships in America?” I guess Canadians and 190 other countries do not apply.
Whereas eHarmony doesn’t [...]

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I’m Late to the Match.com CEO Blog Party

by David Evans on April 24, 2007   in Blogs & Podcasts

I just found out that Jim Safka, CEO of Match.com, has a blog. I can’t believe no one tipped me off about it until yesterday. Jim hardly ever posted to it, but there was enough openness that it seemed like he was writing it, not the PR department. Although you never know, the PR [...]

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Blog: Dating Facts

by David Evans on March 26, 2007   in Blogs & Podcasts

I’ve just emailed back and forth with Eric, who write Datingfacts, a blog about the dating industry in the Netherlands.  Eric tells me that in the Netherlands there are already more than 300 dating websites. For just 16 million people and only 2.4 million singles.

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GoFish Launches Branded Dating Show

by David Evans on July 31, 2006   in Blogs & Podcasts, Marketing

Video sharing site GoFish is promoting it’s online reality contest, American Dream Date, by posting footage on other video sharing sites. Jet Set energy drinks are the sponsor of the show, which is using social networking to build it’s brand.
Listen to the podcast (1m34s, 2.2 MB). Read more at ClickZ.

Technorati Tags: gofish, jet set

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Layers of Identity Podcast

by David Evans on May 30, 2006   in Blogs & Podcasts, Identity

Aldo Castañeda posted our podcast discussing the marketing implications and emerging surfaces of identity and attention systems. The talk primarily covers the layers of the identity stack, with particular focus on data providers and aggregators leading up to my thoughts on how our digital self will be represented in the future.
The podcast is located [...]

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Skype Will Own Part Of Click-To-Call Market

by David Evans on January 31, 2006   in Blogs & Podcasts

Listening to Bill Gates, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Skype and Cisco CEO John Chambers and moderator Geoffry Moore (Crossing the Chasm) in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
The podcast is a rich vein of deep thinking, too much to get into here but I will say the first thing that [...]

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ODI Podcast #1 – ranking & rating dating sites

by David Evans on December 22, 2005   in Blogs & Podcasts

Today marks the inaugural Online Dating Insider podcast. I haven’t done my own podcast in many moons, usually I use Skype to talk to the interviewer, and they take the raw audio file and convert it to MP3 after an hour or so tweaking the quality. Consider this an experiment/beta while I get up [...]

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