by David Evans | Uncategorized
It’s been an important week for the dating industry. Here are a few stories that didn’t make the front page. Anonymous calling A whole slew of companies have tried to enter the dating market to offer anonymous calling services. Most gave up and went after...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Match.com’s Matchwords seem to be working in people’s profiles, but continue to be broken at the main page. When I add a Matchword from someone else’s profile to mine, I can’t tell the word has been successfully added except for the word being...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
I received an email from Yahoo Personals which says that changing your profile nicname to your given name will make other members “more likely to contact you, reply to you and want to meet you.” I had to look at the raw source of the email to make sure it...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Rafat Ali at Paid Content says that Great Hill Partners, the Boston-based PE firm which bought IGN in 2003, and then made a killing selling it to Fox, has bought a 20 percent stake in online dating network company Spark Networks (operator of JDate.com, among others)....
by David Evans | Interviews
Rich Gosse and I did another podcast at the Singles Podcast Network. This week’s topics are the Match.com lawsuits, active # of profiles on dating sites, Russian Bride scams, writing a great personal ad with ProfileDoctor, Handwritingprofiles.com, and what are...