by David Evans | Dating Safety
The next few posts are going out in an attempt to post things that have been stuck in my draft folder. My notes from a recent iovation presentation. iovation is a new sponsor of the blog and we’re glad to have them on board. Fraud and abuse in idating spammers...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Safety
Recently I had a great lunch with Brad Canavan at Iovation. I had to meet with a guy who’s email signature is “The Wizard of Odds.” Reading the Iovation newsletter, I see its now public knowledge that Iovation has completed a $15 Million Investment...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
I heard from Stephany Alexander, who runs Womansavers, “World’s Largest Database Rating Men” (30,000+ men’s names, descriptions & photos entered by women, top 5% most popular women’s websites). Thankfully I don’t show up in the...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
Boston is getting a lot of snow today, tonight the snow shoes come out! I’m sorry to say that Consumating is joining the TechCrunch Deadpool on March 15. I talked with founder Ben Brown many times when they were starting up and during the transition after CNET...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
Given the important role fraud detection plays in the idating market, I expected the iovation webinar to be packed. Perhaps school vacation week got the best of people’s schedules. A transcript of the event will be posted and I’ll try to link to it here....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Dating Safety, Dating Sites & Startups
Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day. Today I feel like accountants must feel on April 16th. In my quest to learn more about the role of fraud detection in online dating, I had lunch with Maxmind. Talking with the fraud guys is a real eye-opener. There are...