by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
It’s too bad iDate didn’t do the pre-event chat like last year. I wanted to give people a chance to network before the event so I decided to host a chat here on Friday, January 16. Many thanks to Userplane for agreeing to let me use their Web Messenger...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
Over the holidays I spent some time talking with Mandy Ginsberg, Match.com GM for North America. You might want to read Match.com Gets an Update along with this post. Daily 5 Daily 5 helps members find interesting and relevant people who wouldn’t normally...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Evan Marc Katz, a one-time competitor hopefully turning into a collaborator, is speaking on the Generating Revenue panel. Here are Evans’ websites. Advice From a Single Dating Expert Evan Marc Katz Finding The One ThoughtRocket Evan needs to change the first...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Over the past month or two Match has been rolling out a number of design and functionality updates. To begin with, the familiar black header has been replaced with a blue one. Match has thrown out any sort of cohesive design pattern, everything looks like it’s...
by David Evans | White Label Dating
In the past it has been difficult to get unbiased information about white label sites. White Label Dating and World Dating Partners only went so far as to tell you how fantastic their conversion rates are, which is all fine and good, but not exactly useful when it...
by David Evans | Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
KillerStartups talks about Kontagent, a viral analytics platform. Kontagent can be best described as a viral analytics platform that is geared towards social network application developers. The company itself is headquartered in San Francisco, and it has been founded...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
This is what happens when I keep compiling links and then forget about them. How will dating sites take advantage of FacebookConnect? Speaking of Facebook, I don’t see any Match people in Are You Interested anymore. 50+ essays on viral marketing, social network...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
You can now leave a video comment on any post. You’ll need to set up an account at Seesmic and have a webcam and a microphone. If the feature is abused it will be removed, have at it.
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
I just had a great conversation with the Down to Earth team. Down to Earth is the new Match.com free dating site. It will take a few days to process everything, will have something up next week. I also have a ton of information from my talk with Match over the...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
Conferences are fast and furious affairs, days are full of presentations, panels and impromptu hallway meetings, while evenings are chock full of food, booze and questionable behavior (it is South Beach after all). I’m a big fan of pre-event networking. Today I...