by David Evans | Matchmaking
An IBM researcher says she can make an educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. As we’ve heard again and again, Computers can derive people’s traits from linguistic footprints File under – Interesting things...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Matchmaking, Mobile Dating
Match.com is now making $200M a quarter. In the not-too-distant future it’s going to be a billion dollar a year company. More at IAC. Now this is interesting, eHarmony gets into matchmaking at $5,000 a pop. Acquaintable has been acquired by LikeBright. Congrats...
by David Evans | Matchmaking
The New York Times Haggler has two stories about It’s Just Lunch. It’s not a pretty picture, to put it mildly. In Search of Romance, and Maybe a Refund sets the lunch table with tales of poor customer service. Skip the Romance; She’s Going to...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Matchmaking, Mobile Dating, Offline Dating, Profiles & Matching
And so another Valentine’s Day has come to pass. This year I did around 35 media interviews, actually a pretty light load this year. The sheer number of “relationship experts” who asked about guest-posting was unbelievable, probably around 50 people....
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Matchmaking, Social: Dating & Networking
Facebook had an invite-only press event today and boy did they deliver. Facebook announced a feature so stunning and ridiculous and crazy and amazing that it could quite possibly render wide swaths of various industry to waste. One things is for sure, the dating...
by David Evans | Matchmaking
Hey look, it’s eFlirt Expert Laurie Davis at her book signing in Boston tonight. Funny thing is that a friend of mine won her Profile eCritique raffle drawing. She’s got her work cut out for her thats for sure. Here’s Laurie and her fiance Thomas,...