by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
Mandy Ginsberg, Match.com General Manager for North America, will be introducing Dr. Helen Fisher as the keynote speaker for iDate. Two years ago I worked with Dr. Fisher and Chemistry.com to build their first blogs. Working with the entire team was rewarding I...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
I saw this on Match over the weekend. How can a person not have a profile but still be able to communicate? Did I bookmark them when their profile was public and then they hid it? Mysterious.
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
The New York Times has a fascinating article about Netflix, which is offering $1 million to anyone who can improve their Cinematch recommendation engine by 10%. It turns out that improving movie recommendations by 9% was pretty straightforward, it’s the last...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Profiles & Matching
Match has gone through a pretty radical redesign. Nobody I’ve talked to is a big fan of what they did with the Connections page, but I like the new Daily 5 feature, which is similar to what OkCupid recently launched. I’ll dig into the new features and look...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
European VC Index Ventures has pumped €15 Million into dating site Be2. The test is mainly based on the “New York Longitudinal Study†about the five factor model of personality development and Sternberg “triangular theory of love.†I took the test. Seemed...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
A common complaint on online dating sites is that personal ad photos range from unflattering to fake. to make matters worse, in the past few years there has been an influx of photos done by professional photographers that are as disingenuous as the photos people post...