by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Site Features
After writing about Flikdate, I started hearing about Airtime, the new videochat service built on top of Facebook. Remember Chatroulette (lots of posts here)? Huge initial growth, absolute media frenzy, featured live in an epic concert, and the fell off a cliff. Watch...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Industry Finance, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Uncategorized
While browsing AngelList, I came across Pinstant Karma which calls itself “A pitch-perfect convergence of match.com and Pinterest that will energize the online dating segment.” With stunning visual pin boards singles can easily ‘like’ and...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Markets, Dating Site Features, Mobile Dating, Offline Dating
This morning I had a Skype videochat with Match.com President Mandy Ginsberg and Shar Dubey, Vice President of Product. Mandy and Shar took some time out of their busy Internet Week in New York schedule to share supplemental detail to the Match blog posts and press...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry, Profiles & Matching
For the past few months I’ve been working with CNBC on a new dating special that airs next week. Here’s a clip, which features OKCupid’s Sam Yagan, Match and a few other dating sites. From the show’s website: NBC News and Today Show...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Had a great time today at Harvard Business School being interviewed on-camera by Amy Robach from CNBC/Today Show. Amy and her cohorts were wrapping up filming for a big story about online dating. After talking to the fantastic producers and collecting stats (never...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Great news for Craigslist sellers and psycho’s. RingShuffle is a new iPhone app for creating temporary and later self-destructing phone numbers that route to your cell, available now. Seems like every piece of news I get lately is a re-hash of a product or...