by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Legal, Marketing, Online Dating Innovation
Lawless Luvoo.com: Missouri residents on the Do Not Call list are receiving telemarketing calls from dating site Luvoo.com. Reader Renaldorv says I have been living under a rock, that Luvoo is not the real deal. I put Luvoo and Mate1 in the same category. Site that...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Innovation
Much of my work in the online dating industry involves working with startups looking for a way to leapfrog their way into a market-leading position in a particular niche. Other times it’s developing new growth strategies for established sites that are looking to...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Innovation
TechCrunch is talking about online dating again, someone over there must be single. This was the title of a New York Times Magazine article two years ago, aren’t we at 3.0 by now? Story starts out with the usual “Myspace is really a dating site”,...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Safe dating site TrueDater has launched a site for bookmarking people across multiple social networks. I’ve been critical of TrueDater in the past. I’m not convinced the service has the audience or features to be considered useful. I think something along...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Online Dating Innovation
Edward at Other Singles has been using Google Trends to track the popularity of the term “dating” according to geography. Check out the graph. It shows Google search terms related to dating from regions of the world. Searches related to...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
From the department of location-based presence detection, Meetro has released an new version of their chat client. Meetro let’s you see who is nearby, based on zip code, and includes a basic profile. They have a Myspace importer that pulls in your About, Music...