by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Om Malik asks if it’s time to rethink the whole concept of social networks: Social networks are now cropping up like mushrooms after a monsoon, most of them slight variations on the MySpace1-Facebook2 model. Unfortunately that trend has pigeonholed the notion of...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
First is was family networking, then couples and now women, what’s next? A men’s social network? The Dude Network?Oomph.net is described as Oxygen’s first social network. One of its twists: personality tests designed to help women find other women with...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Social: Dating & Networking
Are dating site operational costs higher than social networks? Markus at PlentyOfFish says “operational costs of a dating site significantly higher then social networking sites.� I doubt that 100%. Come on Markus, enough with the hype, or at least back up your...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Advisor Garage is using dating site technology to help entrepreneurs & startups hook up with business advisors, mentors and potential investors. Entrepreneurs search through Advisor’s ‘Advisory Pitches’ until an Advisor is found which corresponds...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Social: Dating & Networking
Launched in 1999 by music marketing entrepreneur Clark Benson and Northwestern University fund-raiser Karen DeMars, eCRUSH was designed with viral marketing in mind, as members can send email “crushes� to non-members, who must then register with eCRUSH to...