IBM Deciphers Personality Types From 200 Tweets
An IBM researcher says she can make an educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. As we’ve heard again and again, Computers can derive people’s traits from linguistic footprints File under – Interesting things...Online Dating Industry Update 11-12-13
Match.com is now making $200M a quarter. In the not-too-distant future it’s going to be a billion dollar a year company. More at IAC. Now this is interesting, eHarmony gets into matchmaking at $5,000 a pop. Acquaintable has been acquired by LikeBright. Congrats...OkCupid Bingo Game is Hilarious
Friend sent this to me, very funny OkCupid Bingo game. The squares alone are great, but when you start looking at profiles and playing and someone wins within 3 profiles, it makes you wonder about people. And you get buzzed very quickly (don’t ask me know I...MeetMe Launches Dating App Charm
Social network @MeetMe (formerly MyYearbook, acquired by Latino social networking site Quepasa for $100 Million In Cash And Stock) today launched a standalone dating app called Charm. Like At First Sight, users shoot short looping videos. Videos are swiped for...Twoo Acquires StepOut
Last December Meetic, owned by Match, acquired Massive Media, which runs Twoo.com, for $25M cash. Twoo, a Badoo clone, had grown to 9.6M unique monthly visitors (source). I met some of the Twoo team in London last fall when I was in town to speak at the White Label...HowAboutWe Adds SpeedDate and DateMap
I’ve always loved the design and marketing of HowAboutWe, although in terms of profiles, search and being effective, it’s always fell a bit short for me compared to the top dating sites in terms of payoff for time spent on the site. While their unique...Scamalytics Launches Free Scammer Health Check for Online Dating Sites
Back from Peru, what an incredible trip. It’s amazing what a few weeks in the jungle, seeing Machu Picchu and visiting ruins at 13,000 feet will do for one’s health and perspective on life. Lost 10 pounds and I’m the calmest I’ve ever been in...Heading out of Town
I’ll be offline in the jungle in Peru for several weeks, back the first week of October. Comments turned off until then.Big Changes in Online Dating White Label Provider Landscape
TheDatingStudio is terminating their white label dating service. To capitalize on the opportunity, Dating Factory is sending out emails saying: If you have sites with them, you may already know the news that Cupid Plc may be closing the doors on their white label...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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