by David Evans | Uncategorized
Boston-based virtual goods company viximo hosted a party last night to show off TrueFlirt, their iPhone virtual gifting application. I stopped by the say hello, catch up with Ravi and get the skinny on the latest viximo apps. I even got to see some unreleased iPhone...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Free dating sites have had a good run the past few years. Everyone starting a free dating site jumped, and continues to jump, on the free dating bandwagon. Meanwhile, top paid dating sites are making hundreds of millions of dollars, while free dating site are scraping...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
Not content with relying on Happen Magazine or any of the other dating site companion publications, consumers are adopting a more Do It Yourself approach by taking the business of online dating research into their own hands. Be forewarned, if you’re looking for...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
A reader is looking for “professional and good hosted solutions that are also suitable for European companies.” If you have knowledge, leave a comment.
by David Evans | Uncategorized
A gentleman sent me his personal review of Chemistry.com. Reviews of dating sites tend to me somewhat negative, and this one contains it’s share of barbs, but it is much more detailed than most reviews. Some very astute observations here. He had me at his...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Mobile Dating
Just got off the phone with Redg at Skout. Skout is presenting at Demo this afternoon, around 2:30pm PST. Demo is a launchpad for emerging technology, similar to TechCrunch 50. Skout is bringing location-based dating to 10,000 social venues across the US. A special...
by David Evans | Marketing
Question of the day – What will happen to the indicated recession-based growth the online dating industry is currently experiencing when Team Obama and the US collectively gets ourselves back on track? Will it continue, decline or something else?
by David Evans | Marketing
Simple and clean PlentyofFish ads, eHarmony puts my usage data to good use and Chemistry.com took a nap for a few hours over the weekend. True obviously wants to be bought by Penthouse, click the image for the full flash banner.
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
In My Route to MySpace, co-founder Chris DeWOLF talks how life led him to MySpace. He had this to say about the future. In the future, social networks will be more distributed on the Internet. They’ll be able to be part of virtually any Web site, even content sites....
by David Evans | Legal, Profiles & Matching
Facebook is again running into serious problems when it comes to clearly explaining their take on ownership of member data. This is a work in progress and they are going to need many iterations to get it right. It’s easy to talk about portable profiles, social...