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OkCupid’s Tallygram Experiment Shutting Down

April 17, 2013 By David Evans · 3 Comments

In other OkCupid news, they are shutting down Tallygram on May 15. I liked the service for a few days, then got bored with it because the discovery and surfacing aspect was non-existant. A nicely designed site that nobody used because they put zero effort into marketing it. OkCupid is focused … [Continue reading...]

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OKCupid Accepts Bitcoin

April 17, 2013 By David Evans · Leave a Comment

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Lot's of discussion about Bitcoin lately. Wordpress.com and several other companies accept the digital currency, and now OkCupid accepts BitCoins as well. I've been mining Bitcoins on my laptop for a few weeks. At this rate, I'll have $.000002 cents in a few years. At this point it's easier to … [Continue reading...]

Facebook’s Graph Search Awkward For Dating

April 3, 2013 By David Evans · 4 Comments

Business Insider article I contributed to: Facebook's Graph Search Would Make Online Dating Unbearably Awkward. Couple of choice quotes. Sam Yagan, CEO of both OkCupid & Match.com said, "I used graph search and it showed me people who meet my criteria but that didn't mean I wanted to date … [Continue reading...]

Dating Companies at AdTech

April 3, 2013 By David Evans · Leave a Comment

It would be great to meet up with dating industry folks who are attending AdTech in San Francisco next week. I know a number of dating companies will be there looking to buy/sell traffic, maybe we can organize an industry meetup. Send me a message and let's make something happen. … [Continue reading...]

All We Want To Do Is Date Ourselves

March 27, 2013 By David Evans · 12 Comments

Lately I've been spending a lot of time speaking with experts about matching algorithms. 16PF5, behavioral matching, opposites attract, energetic compatibility, etc. There are hundreds of algorithms being used by the dating industry and we still don't have a good public effectiveness benchmark … [Continue reading...]

Next Online Dating Summit In Curacao

March 26, 2013 By David Evans · Leave a Comment

Where did March go? Feels like I was just in Miami for the Online Dating Summit. It's been a busy month or so working with a great group of new clients to build out several new dating sites. Also enjoying the great spring snowboarding we've had. Moving this weekend, things will get back to normal … [Continue reading...]

BBC Radio Investigates Cupid PLC

February 25, 2013 By David Evans · 5 Comments

Over the weekend the BBC's Adrian Goldberg aired an investigative piece centered on allegations that Cupid PLC had among other things made use of fake profiles and communications to entice members to sign up. Cupid LLC's official response was that there are 100 test accounts in their systems … [Continue reading...]

Dating Sites Do The Harlem Shake

February 19, 2013 By David Evans · 2 Comments

The Internet meme of the moment is the Harlem Shake. Match was the first dating site I've seen jump on the opportunity to dance spastically to the song and post a video. A solid effort, I challenged the dating industry to a Shake-off on Twitter and POF was the first site to accept the … [Continue reading...]

Man Accused of Raping Woman He Met On Christian Mingle

February 18, 2013 By David Evans · 12 Comments

Match isn't the only dating site in the news for members behaving badly. Now it's Spark Networks, owners of ChristianMingle. A man using the nickname "Rarity" (and sometimes Rylan Butterwood) was arrested on two counts of sexual assault and burglary after allegedly raping a woman he met on … [Continue reading...]

Are Real Names On Dating Sites A Good Idea?

February 18, 2013 By David Evans · 7 Comments

Has anyone seen a dating site that uses people's real names? Lots of sites use Facebook data and then let people create an alias to hide their FB name - Thread.com was the first to do this, but I've never seen a dating site where my profile name was my real full name. YouTube is trying to get us … [Continue reading...]