by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Ebay has made a jillion dollars using a seller recommendation system based on 1995 technology. KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, was definitely the way to go for such a large and popular site. TechCrunch says Rapleaf has created a full open version of eBay’s feedback...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Reali-ity has created a mashup of last.fm and Pandora. This is the most useful merge of two different sites I’ve seen in a while. I’ve written about both services here and here. Finally something new and useful that isn’t geared towards build-n-flip...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
WIRED News has article about a new meta-dating service called Collaboradate. A few clarifications should to be made, as WIRED got some of the story incorrect. Collaborate is nothing like Trillian, which aggregates all your instant messenger accounts into a single...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Imagine a day in the future when you or an algorithm determine who you should date based on what sites you visit and what sites your prospective dates visit. You wouldn’t even need to fill out a 500 question compatibility test. Would you really want to date someone...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Andy Abramson at VoIP Watch and Om predict that Yahoo is coming out with a new version of their IM client next week. Ever since I started using Adium for most of my IM needs I haven’t missed the musty old version of Yahoo’s chat client on my Mac. That...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Online Dating Innovation
Vivox came up with the phrase “graduated communication” which describes the act of moving from wink to IM to video seamlessly within the context of a conversation. I like the phrase contextual communication even better, but then this morning I realized...