by David Evans | Uncategorized
I am heading off to Nantucket for a few days, back on Friday. Working an hour or two a day and responding to high-priority email. I’ve had some very interesting conversations with executives at Match, eHarmony and several startups in the US and China in the past...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Dear Pilot Group. I went to sign up as an affiliate today. How come your banner sizes are different for social dating and social networking? The smallest size for dating is 250×250, don’t you have anything smaller? Fix your category listing, it’s not...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Google has finally gotten into the virtual reality market with Lively. As an early member of the Boston Computer Society’s Virtual Reality Group circa 1993, I have a longstanding interest in virtual worlds and keep up to date with SecondLife and to some extent...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Yesterday I was in New York City being a good consultant and meeting with clients and doing some business development with people I’d really want to work with. Nothing drives home my value like looking across a table at someone and telling them something they...
by David Evans | Marketing
Looks like JLove has been up to some questionable Search Engine Optimization tricks. It seems the Jewish dating startup has been creating fake profile pages for people who don’t belong to the service. Whatever they are doing, traffic is up 500% in recent months....
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
It’s not just Match thats broken, I just saw these two blunders on Facebook. “Come back in a few days.” What???? This is barely acceptable on a free site based on a very basic platform. The second one is that I was shown an ad for men. Believe, me,...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Marketing
I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I’m paying for. This isn’t an overloaded social network with a million features, it’s a dating site, albeit a large...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
If you enjoy rejection, have I got the perfect site for you. OnlinePersonalsWatch says: A dating website exclusively for intelligent people has now launched in the UK. IntelligentPeople.com requires that its members pass an IQ test in order to join....
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
I’ve been filling out questions on Chemistry.com for what feels like forever. Some of them I think I remember from the first time I filled out my profile, why are they re-asking me these things? Is it because our answers change over time? I bailed out about 1/2...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
This article is part of a series concerned with building, launching, maintaining and growing dating sites. Found an article about figuring out the optimal startup burn rate. New technical term of the week: Dogpiling. If you are planning, running or about to launch a...