by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation
A new trend is emerging where free dating sites add the phrase Skype on their home page and call themselves the next generation of online dating. Let me say it here once and for all. Starting a new dating or social networking site with a core differentiator solely...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Today’s Joy Of Tech cartoon has Steve Jobs heckling the audience, complaining that they sit around all day obsessing about Apple and to go get a life. The punch line is that an audience member thinks that reading between the lines of Jobs’ speech that...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
It’s been a few months since the migration from SpringStreet to FastCupid and time to see how the new site is functioning. FriendFinder and FC have always been among the first to roll out features way before any other sites. They were among the first to offer...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Ever since Jim Safka at Match.com said the number one demand from members was help with online dating, several companies have emerged to provide dating advice. We have videos from Dr. Phil, live coaching from any number of people and now for $19.99 a month Econfidant...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Rumor Alert: Silicon Beat has news on rumor that Google may buy Friendster. Goodle offered $30 million for friendster in 2003. Current asking price is less than $5 million. This comes on the tail of recent rumors that Kleiner Perkins put another $5-12 million into...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Spent a few minutes revising my profile at Yahoo because change is good. I went to upload a few new photos, and the photo upload feature was b0rked. Missing preview page, unable to upload multiple photos simultaneously and now all of a sudden in Firefox the upload...