by David Evans | Mobile Dating, Online Dating Innovation
Cambridge, MA based Viximo has launched TrueFlirt, an application that enables users to send and receive virtual flirts via mobile phone. Viximo is first and foremost a virtual goods company: think roses on HotOrNot or Facebook gifts. They have produced a video...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Every so often I find it useful to review blogging rules of the road and general etiquette. Ever since I upgraded the theme that powers this blog and the comments are consistently working for the most part (I can’t do much to fix the spam filter on blog...
by David Evans | Marketing
Several people have contacted me asking if I’m going to the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas next week. I will not, but I thought it would be a good idea for people who are attending to leave a comment and their contact information if they would like...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
I just read on Twitter that the Inc. Magazine article about PlentyOfFish is live. And the Money Comes Rolling In covers much of founder Markuk Frind’s personal as well as professional life, including his site’s rise as one of the most popular web...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
A few links with more information about the IPO. CNET ZDNET Andrew Chen (fantastic post, Andrew is amazing). Related- the role of Freemium in Web 2.0.
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
The director of Common Angels, a prominent angel investor network, gave a presentation about the status of the current investment climate at a recent Webinnovators meeting in Boston. A good read if you are contemplating raising capital for a new dating site or social...
by David Evans | Marketing
TechCrunch has a guest post from Mark Brooks about the new Match free dating site, Down To Earth. Getting a post on TC is a double-edge sword. Mark cut and pasted the press release, hyped his client with extreme bias, then pasted in some generic traffic data and the...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Meir Strahlberg, CEO of Date.com, gave the state of the online dating industry talk at iDate in 2005. This is a must-read PDF, if only for the mindset of the industry going back a few years. Lots of interesting facts and figures, the emergence of white label...
by David Evans | Marketing
According to TechCrunch, Wine review site Corkd was hacked to redirect to Adult Friend Finder. Interesting that the Corkd home page actually showed showed up for a second before redirecting to AFF. Details are thin but I bet it was an AFF affiliate. The Corkd site...