by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
More than 10% of Sweden belongs to Lunarstorm, a new social network style site. I found this interesting because back in the day I worked on Torget.se, a site commissioned by the Swedish government to provide AOL-style experience to Swedes. At $6M, it was a huge...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
After only a year, Yahoo! Personals appointed Anna Zornosa to replace Lorna Borenstein as its new VP and general manager. FastCompany has a story on Zornosa’s wild IPO ride at Women.com. She has held positions and Knight Ridder Digital, Topica and several other...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
Last week Match.com launched a Singles Observatory in France that it intends to use as an “independent” body to publish data about singles, their lifestyle and the hunt for the perfect partner. This just shows how much they want to be able to soundly claim...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
The Matchmaking Institute in New York City is offering their next certification series. They also run Continuing Education Series of Tele-classes beginning in January. Matchmaking demands the innate ability to gauge the compatibility between people. While I find it...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Take Google Maps and mix it with a dating site and you have MapMix.Search by location, orientation or relationship type. The site asks for *all* of your contact details and remains light on profile questions. In fact, there are none at all, but it’s still in...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
John Engstrom emailed me with an update about recent events at AppleDates a New York City-specific dating and event site. AppleDates is taking member feedback and feeding it back into development and they are busy adding a plethora of new features: Movie Dating:...