by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program student Drew Burrows, 28, engineered a “virtual girlfriend,” and showed her off at a recent Tisch School of the Arts show. She’s perfectly quiet, but once you sit or lie down, she responds to your every...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
As dating sites grow, they tend to slow down. Steve Souders, the author of the O’Reilly book High Performance Web Sites and creator of Firefox plugin YSlow has a great presentation about how to speed up your website. Dating site IT people need to read...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
PlentyOfFish is now serving images off solid state drives, which employs a technology similar to what is found in the new MacBook Air- no moving parts. Markus has been having trouble with content delivery systems and I guess he thought that faster hard drives were the...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Social: Dating & Networking
I rejoined the Twitter crowd today after taking some time off from gorging on people’s lifestreams. One of the first tweets I received was from from marshalk at Read Write Web, who just posted OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on Myspace. Marshall’s list of key...
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, Dating Site Technology
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Jay Johns from Iovation. Simply put, Iovation brings a level of security to online transactions unlike anything else I’ve ever seen. Iovation’s patented technology builds historical information about every computer...