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 | Dating Profiles, Dating Safety
Dating sites use Scamalytics to stop scammers in their tracks, saving them moderation time and the related costs that come with scam and fraud detection. December and January is a boom time for the Dating Industry but also results in a huge influx...
by David Evans | Dating Profiles
Most social sites, and some dating sites and apps, use humans in the Philippines to moderate profile content. Over 100,000 people there spend their days looking at the most disturbing things you could imagine, and then some. Everybody hits the wall, generally between...
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 Industry Finance, Dating Profiles
Last year I went to Toronto on business to meet with a dating site in stealth mode. While I was there I spent some time at the offices of Ashley Madison. I don’t particularly love the particular brand of Kool-Aid that they were selling, but that’s besides...
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...