by David Evans | Dating Safety, Profiles & Matching
Read/WriteWeb has an overview of identity verification services. Having worked with Trufina and Opinity, I am intimately familiar with how they operate and current issues that need to be addressed if these companies hope to succeed. At first, background checks were a...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
I had a chuckle this morning when I saw that Markus says that HotorNot competed with OkCupid. He thinks HotOrNot will move to a hybrid YouTube/dating model. Bizarre that they are shutting down HotOrNot, $5 million revenue for 5 people, but then again, they have to do...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
I like how Classmates has added further customization of profile pages, including the ability to create new pages featuring blogs, photo galleries and articles. If they can do it with hundreds of thousands (millions?) of members, what’s holding back dating sites...
by David Evans | Marketing
It looks like American Singles is the only dating site taking advantage of Valentine’s Day promotions by offering special affiliate banners. I’m surprised more sites are not doing this. An easy way to get out in front of affiliates, re-establish...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
Eharmony needs a Product Manager and a Java/J2EE Developer to work on an emerging eHarmony service. I’m not sure what exactly the service is, let the rumors begin the the comments.