Thoughts on Valentine’s Day
For over a decade I’ve received thousands of press releases regarding Valentine’s Day. Here’s why I’ve stopped posting anything to do with this particular holiday. Throwing an infographic related to dating on your Quick Loan website and asking...Dating Industry News Roundup 1-29-15
I wrote When Dating Sites Lie last August when OkCupid got in trouble for manipulating search results and not exactly coming clean to users until after the fact. Jaron Lanier recently discussed whether machine learning systems like Netflix recommendations, Facebook’s...Tacklebox Provides Crowd-Sourced Chat Assistance
The folks at Tacklebox understand how difficult it can be to communicate with potential dates and have come up with an app that crowd-sources responses to those tricky early-days chats. The premise is simple: upon login, users are brought to a feed of “baits.” Each...Whitney Wolfe, Other Former Tinder Employees To Launch Direct Competitor Called Bumble
A bunch of ex-Tinder staff have left to start a competing service. They may or may not have raised several million dollars. This reminds me of the mass staff exodus from JDate who left to start a competing site. That site lasted a year then faded into oblivion....
Sapiosexual Seeks Same: A New Lexicon Enters Online Dating Mainstream
OkCupid is adding a lot more options for gender and sexual orientation, including androgynous and genderqueer. And then there’s sapiosexual, meaning someone who’s attracted to smart people.Source: www.npr.orgDating App The Grade is Tinder With Report Cards
SNAP Interactive, creators of Are You Interested, have launched a new dating app called The Grade, which bans “failing singles.” The Grade, which uses an algorithm to assign letter grades to users ranging from “A+” to “F,” is to...Does Facial Recognition Have A Role In Online Dating?
Match.com’s matching algorithm is ridiculously complex, to the point where they are mashing up quiz answers with behavioral data, and now they are experimenting with facial recognition. Excellent to see them working on facial recognition. I brought that up when...Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth – NYTimes.com
Here’s a bunch of stories about Tinder. CEO leaves Tinder. Tinder raises cash. Would you pay for an Undo button on Tinder? What about a travel feature? Tinder premium features. Tinder is learning things that the dating industry has known for a decade. But...Merry Christmas Dating Scammers
Dating sites use Scamalytics to stop scammers in their tracks, saving them moderation time and the related costs that come with scam and fraud detection. December and January is a boom time for the Dating Industry but also results in a huge influx...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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