by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Desktop widgets make finding a date from the desktop easier than ever. According to Uneasy Silence, Metrodate has released a Konfabulator widget, which floats a small window with a slideshow of people’s photos based on simple zip code and age filtering....
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
More free time due to Red Sox being knocked out of series 1-2-3, somewhat expected due to weak bullpen but still, ugh. The past few days I’ve been reading various Web 2.0 conference blogs. The Read/Write Web notes on the Ad Models workshop got me thinking about...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology
Useplane, a long-time supporter of this blog, has published their October newsletter here. Of particular interest: New Instant Webchat has been deployed on over 10,000 sites in just 12 weeks and the Sitesearch search engine is available to demo. Sliders at the top of...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Hot on the heels of my post about remixing Web 2.0 services comes Ning. Founded by Marc Andresson (think Netscape), it’s a development tool for non-developers. Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for people to build and run...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Over the years I’ve seen many different types of virtual helpers, from the ill-fated Microsoft Bob to Clippy the Paperclip. I’ve been doing some research into avatars for dating sites and came across Oddcast. It’s straightforward to create an avatar,...