by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Happy Friday, I actually remembered to #followfriday some dating industry peeps on Twitter today. Follow me at @datinginsider. The dating industry is going to love Narrative Data. This paragraph from Monday Note supports my longstanding belief that dating sites are...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Technology, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Profiles & Matching
In 2008, IntroAnalytics launched their recommendation system for dating sites. As I expected, because every matching system vendor does this, they broadened their focus into anti-scam and e-commerce. Why? In part because getting dating sites to license a third-party...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Profiles & Matching
Rachel DeAlto is on a mission. A “flirt and relationship expert”, she is als a practicing trial attorney the Founder and CEO of FlipMe Flirting Cards. DeAlto is positioning herself right in between Laurie Davis and Lori Cheek. I get several press releases...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Old-growth social network Tagged has raised $15 million. As the other top social networks struggled in a Facebook-dominated world, Tagged was busy acquiring its competitors and complimentary services to firmly position itself as a competitor to MeetMe and Badoo. It...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
At the beach on Cape Cod this week, lots of seals but haven’t see any great white sharks yet. Perfect weather for grilling and chilling. A few weeks ago I mentioned Klik, a cool facial recognition app based on Face..com’s API that identifies people by name...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
OKCupid CEO Sam Yagan gave a presentation at the Digiday Data Marketing Summit. This is a fantastic slide deck, required reading for the entire dating industry. Complete with all sorts of juicy stats on member demographics, messaging trends and even some dating tips....