by David Evans | Uncategorized
Friendfinder IPO Cut in Half: Friendfinder Networks ongoing quest to IPO took another hit this week. The company has revised their S-1 to reflect a a halving of expected fundraising, from $460 Million to about $220 Million. Via paidContent. City dating site...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Yesterday while watching the horrible Patriots loss at my corner bar, the topic came around to dating. I mentioned a few niche dating sites and went into my usual rant about being more interested in a giant single shared database of members than 2,000 separate sites,...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
As online dating continues to evolve in the direction of enhanced personality matching systems, including visual profile bulders and DNA tests, let us not forget the question, What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? Takeaway quote: “If you show us what...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
The days of browsing static dating profiles are nearing the end of their decade-old lifespan. Hallelujah and good riddance, I say. 2009 was the year when the concept of a newsprint-style static dating site profile began to gave way to a new breed of services based on...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Douglas Hines is an electrical engineer and computer scientist who formerly worked on artificial intelligence at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Roxxxy, the latest “sex robot” from the company Truecompanion.com. Hines combined his background with the expertise...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Onlinedatinginsider has teamed up with WiderFunnel Marketing Optimization to present this free webinar, “How Landing Page Optimization Will Explode Revenues for Online Dating Industry Leaders in 2010”. Join us on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:00 pm EST in...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Last week I mentioned Cinekin, a dating startup that uses movie ratings to match people. Today I was checking out someone on OKCupid and I saw a message that the women I was emailing with also likes Shawshank Redemption. This got me thinking that things...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
From a Glamour story about the upcoming Paris Lingerie Show: But by far the most fascinating is “The smart bra from Slovenia’s Lisca, boasting cups made of memory foam that ebbs and flows with body-heat — a NASA patented technology from the...
by David Evans | Marketing
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by David Evans | Marketing
I read with amusement and pity that Beautiful People has kicked off 5,000 people it’s members no longer deem worthy of the site. I’m sure the 27 people left on the site are extremely happy about the move. Spark.com jumped on the opportunity to give the...