by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
Today’s New York Times has an article about The Dubious Science of Online Dating. While I was reading it, Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish (recently rebranded as POF), sent me ELI J. FINKEL AND BENJAMIN R. KARNEY are wrong at least when it comes to POF....
by David Evans | Dating Research, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
New York Times has compiled a Latest Hits of online dating and relationship research. As with a new John Mayer or Coldplay album, with most dating research you already know what you’re going to get even before you dig into the data. While somewhat enlightening,...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
How many times have you received an email that requires you to click a link to a website, perform a few more clicks and perhaps type in some text in order to accomplish a task? Examples could be responding to a twitter notification, a Facebook comment, a dating site...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation
Several months ago Match.com developed a HowAboutWe clone called DateSpark and rolled it out in select test markets. Looks like the testing went well, because this morning I was greeted with the following. One outcome is that HowAboutWe sues Match for a lot of money,...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Legal, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking, Uncategorized
Given the previous post about Match supposedly wanting to build a Badoo clone on Facebook, I decided to poke around the raw html that the Match web servers send to web browsers, which in turn create the Match web pages we look at millions of times every day around the...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking, White Label Dating
A great time was had by all at the eAmore Dating Industry Summit in New York. 150 people got together in Brooklyn to listen to dating industry executives, startups, financiers and vendors. Overall, I was pretty pleased with the event. The main gripe was that the...