by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
American Singles and JDate have been redesigned, along with a few other Spark properties. Standardizing on a design template is a smart move but it also makes you realize there is very little difference between several of their sites. You could replace the home page...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
This week I spoke with Userplane CEO Mike Jones, who tells me Userplane is offering permanent profiles for their free ad-supported app clients users. Anyone can still jump in with just a screen name assuming they set up the app to work that way, but for users that...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
The buzz over GoogleBase continues. People Profiles are one of the drop-down category options found in the service when it was publicly available for a brief time this week. Using the bulk upload function (think of GoogleBase as a giant public database), a free dating...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Desktop widgets make finding a date from the desktop easier than ever. According to Uneasy Silence, Metrodate has released a Konfabulator widget, which floats a small window with a slideshow of people’s photos based on simple zip code and age filtering....
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
More free time due to Red Sox being knocked out of series 1-2-3, somewhat expected due to weak bullpen but still, ugh. The past few days I’ve been reading various Web 2.0 conference blogs. The Read/Write Web notes on the Ad Models workshop got me thinking about...
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...