by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Site Features, Mobile Dating
Its July 4th, hope my US readers are out having fun, stay safe! Ex-Googlers Launch Avocado, An App For Couples Backed By Baseline, General Catalyst, And Lightspeed. Via TechCrunch. Facebook testing ‘Want’ button. This is going to be huge. I have been talking to a few...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Mobile Dating
TechCrunch has a review of a new mobile video dating app called Flikdate. Its the first all-female founded dating startup I’ve ever heard of, cool. Snip: By default, every conversation is limited to 90 seconds and costs you one flik. If, however, you decide that...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Markets, Dating Site Features, Mobile Dating, Offline Dating
This morning I had a Skype videochat with Match.com President Mandy Ginsberg and Shar Dubey, Vice President of Product. Mandy and Shar took some time out of their busy Internet Week in New York schedule to share supplemental detail to the Match blog posts and press...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Offline Dating, Online Dating Industry, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
This week Match.com’s PR department reached out to set up a time to talk about an important upcoming announcement. Then today the Match blog, Up To Date, features a post, Stay Tuned for an Exciting Announcement from Match.com. Match.com will be making a BIG...
by David Evans | Dating Markets
Have you been following the ChristianMingle saga? This is great theater and Spark Networks must be loving the free publicity from Leno, Colbert, etc. Especially delicious is the irony that Spark Networks also runs JDate. Oh what a difference some copywriting and a...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
Online dating industry veterans continue to attack JDate’s market share. This time it’s Avalanche LLC, which runs Date.com, Matchmaker and a number of other sites. According to CEO Meir Strahlberg: The outlook for Jewish online dating was bleak. While...