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, Profiles & Matching
Good to see Scamalytics increase their efforts in identifying additional scam vectors on dating and other websites. “As an anti-fraud company we aim to analyze as much relevant data as possible” said Scamalytics co-founder Dan Winchester. “Analysing...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Safety, Profiles & Matching
Chiara Atik, HowAboutWe’s resident dating blogger has written a book, Modern Dating. Offers advice on a range of topics, from how to send a relatively unembarrassing sext to how to make sure you’re getting into a relationship for the right reasons. It will...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Profiles & Matching
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time speaking with experts about matching algorithms. 16PF5, behavioral matching, opposites attract, energetic compatibility, etc. There are hundreds of algorithms being used by the dating industry and we still don’t have...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Has anyone seen a dating site that uses people’s real names? Lots of sites use Facebook data and then let people create an alias to hide their FB name – Thread.com was the first to do this, but I’ve never seen a dating site where my profile name was...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Social dating and discovery in its current format is based on a wobbly foundation of media spin, investors (both gullible and heroic) and the reality that singles are tired of the decade-old dating site model. The dating industry needed a swift kick in the pants, and...