Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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by David Evans on December 8, 2009 in Dating Sites, Innovation, Social Networking
Black Box Republic has launched a new personal relationship oriented members-only community. If you run a dating site or social network or are considering starting one, you should pay close attention to the Blackbox Republic launch.
Case in point, last week I was at a Mega-Tweetup at Microsoft in Cambridge and I ran into Stowe Boyd, [...]
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by David Evans on September 4, 2009 in Dating Sites, Innovation, Social Networking, Startups
During the past year or so I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about the role Facebook could play in online dating.
I’ve received a lot of feedback from the online dating industry about the possibility of Facebook becoming the worlds largest dating site. Typically I hear that:
- Facebook needs to focus on monitization strategies
- Facebook [...]
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by David Evans on July 27, 2009 in Social Networking
Ed note: I’ll be offline for about a week starting Wednesday 7-29, taking a cross country road trip.
TechCrunch has the highlights of the recent Facebook privacy changes. I’m not talking about the “Can we use your photo in our ads” situation, but how Facebook knows their privacy controls are too complicated and confusing and is [...]
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by David Evans on May 6, 2009 in Profiles, Social Networking
Let’s say a single person wants to try out a handful of dating sites, kick the proverbial tires to see which one performs best for their certain circumstances — geographic location, age, sexual orientation, niche, etc.
Insanity is often defined as “Repeating the same behavior & expecting different results.” While not insane, filling out a dating [...]
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by David Evans on April 4, 2009 in Social Networking
A few weeks ago I had a good conversation with Justin Smith, the editor of Inside Facebook. His blog is a great way to keep up with all things Facebook, check it out.
I think it’s great to see Facebook, Adobe Partner to Create Facebook Platform Libraries in Flash. I wish developers could create new front-ends [...]
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by David Evans on April 2, 2009 in Dating Software, Innovation, Personality Testing, Research, Social Networking, Startups, Technology, Traffic
Niche dating sites can be incredibly effective if you’re Jewish, Black, Gay, Athletic or belong to any number of groups where it makes sense to self-identify as part of a particular group of people. Matchmaker was the first site to have many different demographic areas broken out inside a single dating site, but Date.com merged [...]
Tagged as: Traffic
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by David Evans on March 19, 2009 in Mobile, Social Networking
SNAP has launched it’s first iPhone application, based on it’s popular Facebook Platform dating app ‘Are You Interested?’, which presently has more than 12 million users. SNAP’s new iPhone app allows users to:
Browse photos of singles in their area and tap “Yes” on people they like
View their “Matches” and find out who likes them Check [...]
Tagged as: areyouinterested
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by David Evans on February 23, 2009 in Profiles, Social Networking
Fred Wilson, who writes the excellent A VC blog, writes that Facebook has announced that they are opening up API access to user’s status updates.
Specifically, your applications can now directly access all of a user’s status, links, and notes via new methods and FQL calls. Your application will have access to any status, notes, or [...]
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by David Evans on February 3, 2009 in Finance, Social Networking
Facebook has been talking about implementing a micropayments system for more than a year, only to drop the initiative in recent weeks.
to fill the gap, In an aggressive move, Jambool is developing its own payments platform and virtual economy tools for social network applications and online games.
Watch these guys, they’re embedded with a number of [...]
Tagged as: Finance, micropayments, revenue
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by David Evans on January 19, 2009 in Social Networking
According to founders, Zoosk is now officially the largest “dating app” on Facebook and social networks in general. They recently overtook the HotOrNot lookalike contest crown from Are You Interested, which actually has added some features recently. I’m sure Cliff at Are You Interested will have something to say about the regime change. I’d like [...]
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