by David Evans | Marketing
OkCupid asked me to have fun with them developing a press release touting the economic benefits of free dating sites. With gasoline prices inflicting pain on Americans everywhere, singles across the country can save the equivalent of a full tank of gas every month,...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Earlier today I drove around Boston being filmed for a documentary, Seeking Happily Ever After. This was the last shoot that I’ll be involved with. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out in the end. Speaking of television, supposedly the E! True...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
I had a great conversation with Stephen Stokols, CEO and founder of Woome.com. I’ll post notes from our talk soon. Did you see the article in the NY Times Love on Girls’ Side of the Saudi Divide? Talking about how men and women are prohibited from co-mingling...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Jangl, which powers the anonymous calling feature on Match.com and several social networks, has expired. The founders are going to work for Jajah, which powers eHarmony’s anonymous calling service. Sorry to hear the news, I like the Jangl team and their PR team...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
People tell me around 30 people showed up. Online Personals Watch has a video. but I’m not seeing much coverage otherwise. According to on attendee, the crowd was small, only about 20-30 people but there were some nice, new faces. Mostly social networking...
by David Evans | Marketing
When I went to check out Are You Interested I saw that they have a signup for Match.com as part of the Facebook Application. I clicked through and as happens a lot lately, Match threw an error. I’m seeing error messages on Match often, not sure what the cause is...
by David Evans | Marketing
Don’t Date Him Girl has launched on Facebook. The application Love Inspector is mentioned in an interview with DDHG CEO Tasha Cunningham at Onlinepersonalswatch. We created the application to introduce ourselves to the Facebook audience, which we hadn’t really...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
As dating sites grow, they tend to slow down. Steve Souders, the author of the O’Reilly book High Performance Web Sites and creator of Firefox plugin YSlow has a great presentation about how to speed up your website. Dating site IT people need to read...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Mashable has a list of 120 dating sites. Very comprehensive and doesn’t look like it’s full of affiliate links.
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
I received this from the Zoosk. I now have something like 25 dating applications installed on Facebook. The amount of daily emails, flirts and winks is staggering. Zoosk has launched the beta version of www.zoosk.com. The beta site is only open to current zoosk users...