Newsbites From Match President Chat
Had a great catchup call with Sam Yagan last night. I remember when Sam was handing out roses on Valentine’s Day at subway stops around Boston back in the day to promote OkCupid. And now he’s the president of Match. Reminds me of Mike Jones, who founded...Match.com Profiles Are Partially Public, Social-Graph Enabled
Here’s another bit of thinking I did about Match and the social graph a while back. Some thoughts on Facebook’s social graph as it relates to Graph Search, and the surprising news that my match profile is partially viewable by anyone without having to log...LikeBright Hooks Up With The Bing Fund
LikeBright, the Seattle matchmaking startup, has been selected to join the Bing Fund, a Microsoft angel fund and incubator program sponsored by Bing. According to TNW: Why is Bing interested in the startup? Mostly due to its fusion of social data and search, something...Facebook Timeline Is The Perfect Personal Ad
Found some old notes while looking researching the Facebook Graph Search. Relevant so here they are. Facebook’s Timeline and Graph Search is going to change the online dating industry, forever and for the better. People Media, Spark, Cupid PLC and all the other...Girls Date For Free
Last fall, during the ChristianMingle advertising deluge, I was also inundated with Girls Date For Free ads. GDFF is a Cupid PLC dating site thats been around for several years. Functionality wise, the site reminds me of Friend Finder sites due to the video uploads...POF Invests in LikeIt (Thecomplete.me)
Dating sites are now investing in other dating sites. Taking build vs. buy to the next level. Frind and POF recently made their first investment, contributing funds to a seed round for theComplete.me (now LikeIt). TechCrunch describes the Facebook app as a...Facebook Officially Jumps Into The Dating Pool With Graph Search
Facebook had an invite-only press event today and boy did they deliver. Facebook announced a feature so stunning and ridiculous and crazy and amazing that it could quite possibly render wide swaths of various industry to waste. One things is for sure, the dating...OkCupid Hides User Photos For The Day, Re-Launches Crazy Blind Date
Sam Yagan, co-founder of OkCupid and President of Match, just emailed me to let me know that Crazy Blind Date is baaaaack. Not only that, every single profile photo on OkCupid is blanked out today. Every one of the ten million photos on OkCupid has been removed from...Improving Relationships with Tokii
Tokii allows couples to communicate with each other while having fun and strengthening their relationship. With over the top features and self-help focus, couples can connect anytime, anywhere. In addition, learn from couples that are already using Tokii. Tokii...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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