by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Online Personals Watch mentions Cinekin using movie ratings to match people. Fernando, as expected, takes them to task. Josh Berg at Cinekin weighs in calling their algorithmic matching sytems “as good as Netflix.” Without knowing the full details, I...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Viximo, purveyors of fine virtual goods, have hired former IGN Entertainment executive Dale Strang as its new CEO, replacing interim CEO Dayna Grayson. Viximo founder Brian Balfour has more on the announcement. Viximo has enjoyed the company of several CEO’s in...
by David Evans | Marketing
The online dating industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to attract visitors. Unfortunately, the majority of visits begin and end on first page the visitor encounters. Called “bouncing”, this single issue is responsible for millions of...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing
Magnetu is the world’s first personal Mobile Social Networking fashion accessory that socialize you with people around you.FriendFinder IPO Update: There has been talk about a FriendFinder (which also owns Penthouse) IPO for quite some time. Starting in the...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Spark Networks, operators of such popular online dating destinations such as JDate.com and ChristianMingle.com, has merged AmericanSingles.com and Date.ca into Spark.com. Having suffered ongoing declines in membership across the majority of their dating site...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
White label dating platform providers continue to duke it out over at Online Personals Watch. The tone of the accusations does not bode well for the vendors involved. Many of which have contacted me about the skirmish. Private label companies are eager for dating...
by David Evans | White Label Dating
Dating Factory December Update This week Dating Factory have introduced an optimised pricing model for those dating affiliate partners who run Disabled Dating sites with us. Cross promote not only to different niches (Adult, Dating, Gay) but also different niche...
by David Evans | Marketing
As the online dating industry starts it’s busy season and prepares for iDate in January, I’m going to be mentioning a number of resources that dating sites can take advantage to make 2010 the best year yet for the online dating industry. First up, email...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Had a great conversation with CrowdFlower. CrowdFlower is all about making casual or crowd labor reliable. There is a whole new economy being built around the crowdsourcing of labor. This new marketplace is initiating an entire economy of spending around work that...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
I never paid much attention to pickup artist stuff, which I find embarrassing for the most part. I just got around to reading The Game, which was disturbing and sad. It’s one of those books that makes you wonder about humanity and how far down the toilet our...