by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
I found this photo of Mike Jones on Esther Dyson’s Flickr account via Marc Canter. (How come Flickr doesn’t accept trackbacks and this triple-threat deep linking stuff is exhausting, where is the plug-in to track the links back themselves so I can...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Badges, shields, icons and chicklets are becoming more pervasive on blogs and discussion forums as companies offer tracking, verification and identity management services. I recently came across some new entrants, ClaimID and MicroID. ClaimID will allow users to...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
Jeremy Wright says Myspace scares the hell out of him. He lays down a few choice comparisons and points I want to riff on. According to Wright, by the end of the year, MySpace will account for roughly 10% of all web traffic and, by the end of 2006 (if growth and...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
MySpace employs a staff of about 12 who do nothing but look at all 1.5 million images uploaded each day for inappropriate photos, including pornography. Despite their efforts, some illicit images still get through.’
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
After SafeDate made a big PR splash and threw a great party in Miami Beach this year at iDate, the company went way under the radar and a few executives left the company. SafeDate is back, having recently struck an alliance with DatingHeadshots, to “provide...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Techcrunch has a good review of iKarma. I’ve been on the site for a while now and agree with most of what they said, both the good and bad. Tagging can wait, it’s usefulness to average customer is lost. I spend a lot of time talking about tagging, and most...