by David Evans | Dating Site Features
I joined up for IMVU, the online avatar company, in 2004. Today, nearly two years later, I get my first message from another member and it’s about lesbian avatar pr0n. Not exactly what I expected when I opened the email. File under: It was only a matter of time....
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Dating and social networking sites spend a lot of resources on customer service reps that manually review profiles and photos. Larger sites employ sophisticated skin filters that can differentiate between a nipple and a nose, which is important for sites that have...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Innovation
TechCrunch is talking about online dating again, someone over there must be single. This was the title of a New York Times Magazine article two years ago, aren’t we at 3.0 by now? Story starts out with the usual “Myspace is really a dating site”,...
by David Evans | Marketing
BeMyEx is a spoof site promoting the new movie My Super Ex Girlfriend. The intro video reminds many of the LOST tv show spoof site for the Hanso Corporation, which has been playfully hacked recently. The BeMyEx site features a fun quiz, your answers move a heart...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Interactive media group YooMedia has abandoned plans to sell its online dating business after securing £2.9m of additional funding from Mentor Marketing & Investment (MMI). Earlier this year the company revealed that it was considering spinning off its YooMedia...