by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation
Several months ago Match.com developed a HowAboutWe clone called DateSpark and rolled it out in select test markets. Looks like the testing went well, because this morning I was greeted with the following. One outcome is that HowAboutWe sues Match for a lot of money,...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
When it comes to matters of the heart many people look to the stars for guidance. Not long ago that was limited to a daily horoscope, or a much more involved in-person consultation with an astrologer. Now online astrologer Kelli Fox and her team at The Astrologer, Inc...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Legal, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking, Uncategorized
Given the previous post about Match supposedly wanting to build a Badoo clone on Facebook, I decided to poke around the raw html that the Match web servers send to web browsers, which in turn create the Match web pages we look at millions of times every day around the...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Match is clearly implementing a number of features that share functionality DNA with OkCupid. Take for example the (relatively?) new Profile Highlighter. As someone who loves to riff on specific things women put in their profile that catch my eye, I am going to use...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking, White Label Dating
A great time was had by all at the eAmore Dating Industry Summit in New York. 150 people got together in Brooklyn to listen to dating industry executives, startups, financiers and vendors. Overall, I was pretty pleased with the event. The main gripe was that the...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Profiles & Matching
Soul2match and Find Your FaceMate are two new dating sites that match people based on the concept of facial analysis. Soul2Match is more of a dating site, whereas FYFM is a service where you upload a photo of you and the other person and your compatibility level is...