by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Online Dating Industry
Terra Lycos is selling its Lycos assets to Daum Communications. Lycos represented about 16 percent of its total earnings in 2003. Terra originally purchased Lycos, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May 2000 in a stock deal worth $12.5 billion. How will this affect...
by David Evans | Dating Research
FirstMonday has an interesting article called a Manifesto for the Reputation Society. As I’ve been saying, identity verification from the likes of Trufina, Rapsheets and Verified Person is the next big thing that dating sites will add to address low customer...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Research
The Online Dating Research Center held a conference in Vienna in April with the title, “Online Personals: “Scientists, designers seek same for good conversation.” About the workshop Online personal advertisements have shed their stereotype as...
by David Evans | Dating Research
David Trastour, Claudio Bartolini and Javier Gonzalez-Castillo have written an interesting paper titled A Semantic Web Approach to Service Description for Matchmaking of Services. The paper (350k) is a super-geeky look at what will undoubtedly become a key technology...
by David Evans | Dating Research
For trend analysis, growth patters, etc. Link to other historical reports are here. Price: $750 Published on: July 2002 Published by: Hitwise Do you want to understand how UK surfers interact with the online Dating industry? Hitwise is the leading online competitive...
by David Evans | Dating Research
It’s dated 2001, but this PDF report (432k) from MSN covering the Canadian dating market might be of interest for historical purposes.