by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Dr. James Houran has accepted Dr. Joel Block’s challenge. With several caveats. Update: Dr. Block responds to Dr. Houran in the comments for Personality Testing Smackdown. Wow, just go read it and come back. Dr. Houran says: …my team is confident we can...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
eHarmony Starts an Open Relationship With AOL EHarmony begins a partnership with AOL today to share its online dating advice to readers of AOL Personals. AOL users will be able to register for eHarmony’s singles matching service directly from AOL Personals, but in...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
If you attended, leave a comment and let us know what you thought about the show? How many people in attendance? Any presentations stand out? How where the exhibitors?
by David Evans | Audio & Video
WooMeTV went live today. The original Woome made it fun to jump into conversations with random people. But what about the rest of us who can’t make it into these videochats? WooMeTV is the logical progression of WooMe, basically an archive of WooMe sessions....
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
The editors of TechCrunch: had a slow news day and hyped a Japanese virtual boyfriend simulator: In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nippon’s newest web...
by David Evans | Marketing
Anti-piracy company Mediadefender is receiving a significant amount of revenue from adult affiliate programs. MediaDefender is better-known for receiveing $4,000 to protect music albums and $3.6 million from a large studio to protect just 4 movies. MediaDefender’s...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Research, Dating Safety
A group of 20-somethings has created a website called Girls Teach Guys. The idea behind the site is to publish real and uncensored advice and tips from the opposite sex. The advice is provided as video clips, most look like they were recorded with webcams, although...
by David Evans | Marketing
Press Release Grader is a web service for grading the quality of press releases. I’ve run a few dating site releases through and the highest grade so far was 89. Many score in the mid-60’s. I ran a recent BlackPeopleMeet press release through the HubSpot...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
The more I think about it, the more I’m excited about the idea of a personality matching shootout. It’s about time we had some true scientifically proven, apples-to-apples comparisons between the various systems in use on today’s dating sites. Any...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
Andrew Chen has written a high-level document about how to set up analytics for websites. Absolutely applicable to dating sites. You’ll probably want to search for additional information to drill down into each specific section.