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Thread Slowly Rolling out New Features

by David Evans on January 18, 2010   in Uncategorized

Social dating site Thread appears to be going in the direction of a Zook or Are You Interested clone. I was hoping this wouldn’t be the case. Meeting friends of friends is obviously a the primary way people connect, but more incessant clicking is not what I was expecting. I asked a few friends [...]

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Online Dating Week In Review June 27, 2008

by David Evans on June 27, 2008   in Legal, Marketing, speeddating

Lot’s of news to cover, rumors to mull over, a tremendous amounts of comments, dating site launches and as always, much love to our sponsors, Userplane, SkaDate, ivoation and Dating Ad Network. Click their ads and find out how they can help you run a successful online dating site.
I had lunch with Ravi @ Viximo [...]

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Dating & Discovery Services Raising Big Bucks

by David Evans on June 18, 2008   in Finance, speeddating

Two big fundraising events in the past week have occurred.
First, online videochat service WooMe has raised $12.5 Million. That’s an enormous amount of money for a videochat site, but after having a conversation with CEO Stephen Stokols I’m pretty confident that they know exactly what they are doing. The Series B round was led by [...]

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Engage Unleashes Our Inner Connector

by David Evans on June 14, 2008   in Dating Sites, Innovation

The new Engage improves upon the matchmaker theme, adding quite a bit of transparency via new features that make it easy to recommend people to your friends and even people you don’t know. … Fixup page – sense of what that person is like and what people are saying about them Clicking on friend- shows his fresh faces, suggested for them and suggestion Score Board About You- your stats.

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Facebook Dating Applications, Anything Goes

by David Evans on April 18, 2008   in Social Networking

I’ve been getting a lot of emails from Facebook dating applications this week after signing up for about 20 of them last weekend. Thing is, I deleted 20 applications a few weeks ago because I thought they were breaking things on Facebook. It appears that when you delete a Facebook dating application, all of the [...]

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