by David Evans | Audio & Video
Hot on the heels of the USA Today article about anonymous calling, the NY Times has a piece about, you guessed it, “the last phone number you’ll ever need.â€? If a service is going to take off in the social and dating space, it’s got to be easy to use,...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Marketing
Match.com reports the initial response to the new anonymous calling feature has been “extraordinary�?. Jane Thompson, a Match.com vice president (of what?): 275,000 people already have used the feature, which is being offered as a freebie to Match.com’s 15...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Anonymous calling companies continue to court dating sites. It’s deja vu all over again. The Jangl deal with Match is the first big play in the space, but it remains to be seen what the adoption rates are for the service. Mark Brooks recently interviewed Vumber,...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Site Features
When it comes to innovation, the dating industry is usually one of the last places early adopters will look for examples of cutting edge features. Until now. Match is slated to begin offering free anonymous phone calling between members. But this isn’t your...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Online Dating Innovation
Northwestern University has developed an automated news-video program, News At Seven, with help from the National Science Foundation. News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Site Technology
Cisco, maker of fine routing and networking appliances, has unveiled a $300,000, six screen high definition videoconferencing system. Except they call it telepresence because everyone’s heads are life-size. I spend at least an hour a day videoconferencing in...