by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Dating industry veterans including the co-founders of Lavalife have funded Shanghai-based WorldFriends Network. WorldFriends Networks currently serves over 200 website partners and 1,000,000 registered members. The Asian dating market continues to heat up, with a...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Marketing
This is hilarious. Ze Frank, who hosts a great daily videoblog, has a segment about the True.com video ads that are showing up in places like Myspace. Watch him chat back and forth with the video ad, thinking the girls in the ads are actually chatting live with him,...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Over the past several years online dating has moved from static profiles in your web browser to mobile phones, cable television channels, YouTube and the nascent SecondLife virtual environment. Today I saw something similar to SecondLife that specifically mentioned...
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 | Dating Markets
The Los Angeles Times writes about internet dating in Iraq, and the online sociology of warzones. Between arranged marriages, little time alone with the opposite sex and the ever-present threat of violence, Iraqi citizens are relying more and more on the Internet to...