by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Dating Safety, Dating Sites & Startups
Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day. Today I feel like accountants must feel on April 16th. In my quest to learn more about the role of fraud detection in online dating, I had lunch with Maxmind. Talking with the fraud guys is a real eye-opener. There are...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Sarah Lacy at BusinessWeek says it’s over between her and online dating sites. She thinks she’s going to find her mate on Myspace and Facebook. Good luck with that, Sarah. Then she goes on to state that online dating as we know it is dead. I don’t...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Now here’s a concept I can get behind. BuyYourFriendADrink.com (BYFAD), the leading online social gift service for buying drinks in bars and restaurants, has partnered with HurryDate to integrate BYFAD’s drink gifting technology and service within...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Attention speed daters, the key to success is not to act too desperately. Conventional wisdom has long taught that one of the best ways to get someone to like you is to make it clear that you like them. Now researchers have discovered that this law of reciprocity is...
by David Evans | Marketing
I only caught the highlights of the Daytona 500 over the weekend, talk about exciting! The NY Times (reg req’d) says that Harlequin and Nascar are teaming up on a series of 16 paperback books that feature Nascar prominently. I didn’t know that romance...