by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Safety, Marketing, Mobile Dating
OKCupid Asking About Background Checks: By asking members questions about background checks, OkCupid can effectively poll people without seeming too much like an intrusive survey. Interestingly enough, this question appeared right after I was asked how freaky I am....
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Safety, Dating Sites & Startups, Legal
DuoDater is a new Dating Website For Double Dates. At first glance this seems like a great idea but do do you really want to get into your personal history, dating nightmares and other personal topics in front of two complete strangers? The founder says sites like...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
Trufina, RelyID, HonestyOnline and Tru.ly are just a few of the many services that have launched in the last five years with the hopes of offering background checks and identity verification services for the online dating industry. The actual list is more than 25...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Mobile Dating
The market is saturated with mobile apps for finding nearby friends, dates and deals, but this hasn’t kept the ex-CEO of Match.com, Jim Safka, from starting a new location-based social/dating site called AtZip. I have 10 or so similar apps on my phone and I...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Profiles & Matching
Big news in the world of online dating. Match.com has announced it would begin running members through a sex offender registry. The story began to unfold just over a week ago, around the time I interviewed the rape victim, then called Jane Doe, who was attacked by a...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Mobile Dating
Over the years we have come across a number of safe-dating websites, apps and mobile phone alert services. A new services, myDateTrackerAlert, aims to remove some of the risk of that first face-to-face encounter. When you need help, when you don’t check in, they...