Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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by David Evans on May 6, 2009 in Profiles, Social Networking
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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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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by David Evans on January 18, 2009 in Social Networking
Poking around Facebook while watching football and waiting for roads to be plowed. Here are the Facebook dating Applications, Pages and Groups and I’ve come across. Many of the applications have absolutely nothing to do with dating.
Tagged as: facebook dating
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by David Evans on January 11, 2009 in Social Networking, Traffic
KillerStartups talks about Kontagent, a viral analytics platform.
Kontagent can be best described as a viral analytics platform that is geared towards social network application developers. The company itself is headquartered in San Francisco, and it has been founded by serial entrepreneurs Albert Lai and Jeffrey Tseng.
Currently, this platform works with the existing Facebook API, and [...]
Tagged as: Traffic
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by David Evans on January 7, 2009 in Marketing, Social Networking
Burger King has launched a promotional Facebook widget. Un-friend 10 of your Facebook Friends via Whopper Sacrifice and BK will reward you with a Whopper. Careful though, unlike the usual Facebook unfriending process, the widget will notify your friends. I’m off to prune some people, sorry in advance, nothing personal, really, I’m starving.
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