by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Online Dating Innovation
The lumbering juggernaut we like to call Match.com has added tagging to profiles. Except they call them MatchWordsTM. Go, go metadata! I was wondering how long it would take for a major dating site to get with the tagging program. One small, problem, the tags are...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Friendfinder is looking to pay a Flash developer $90,000 a year to improve their sites. Ninety grand for 3 years of Flash experience! I would forget the Flash, most likely they will overdo it and the site will become unusable, which I see happening more and more on...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Online directory service 192.com has launched a new local dating service in partnership with Datingdirect. 192Dating also lets users locate the ideal place and practicalities needed to create a romantic evening. 192Dating enables a user to select potential partners...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
American Singles is introducing several enhancements to the site to bring it closer to par with the rest of the tier one players in the online dating industry. American Singles is a strange beast. Incredibly high CPA, exposure through maddening spyware and toolbar...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Cliche title but it’s not mine. It’s from a BusinessWeek article on the rise of personality testing on dating sites. Continuing the “Let’s hire a celebrity or high profile doctor spokesperson” path along with True and PerfectMatch,...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology
Useplane, a long-time supporter of this blog, has published their October newsletter here. Of particular interest: New Instant Webchat has been deployed on over 10,000 sites in just 12 weeks and the Sitesearch search engine is available to demo. Sliders at the top of...