by David Evans | Dating Profiles, Online Dating Innovation
The folks at Tacklebox understand how difficult it can be to communicate with potential dates and have come up with an app that crowd-sources responses to those tricky early-days chats. The premise is simple: upon login, users are brought to a feed of “baits.” Each...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Webcam sex is now a billion-dollar market. The New York Times has a writeup of the industry, what’s driving it, the money involved and much more. The day-in-the-life story of a popular webcam girl is worth the read.
by David Evans | Dating Profiles, Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
Lately I’ve been reading about the many different uses for Bitcoin that people have been dreaming up. The founder of Angel List, where many dating startups are listed for funding purposes, wrote an article, The Fifth Protocol, which caught my attention. I knew I...
by David Evans | Dating Profiles, Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
A while back I wrote IBM Deciphers Personality Types From 200 Tweets. I’ve had countless email discussions with everyone from psychologists to dating site matching algorithm experts and others about the industry’s take on matching systems. While I’m no psychological...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
This is great news. Scamalytics, based in London UK, maintain the largest shared anti-fraud blacklists specifically dedicated to the online dating industry. Scamalytics has hired Dave Wiseman as VP of Sales. Wiseman has extensive experience selling fraud solutions...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
The OkCupid blog is back, and as usual, it’s ruffling feathers. This just a few weeks after Facebook came clean about doing experiments where they manipulated user data to explore the contagion of emotion, among other things. It’s great to see OkCupid...