by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Ten years ago today I posted the first entry at Online Dating Insider, cleverly titled What’s This? Over the years I have performed hundreds of interviews, podcasts, site and feature reviews and more in almost 4,000 posts and 8,000 comments. The blog has...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
The well-funded geek squad at OkCupid Labs in NYC are entering the social discovery market with the launch of Tallygram. With Tallygram, we’re utilizing the Facebook social graph, and our experiences with developing the world’s best and free online dating site,...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching
Here’s a link to my OkCupid My Best Face crowdsourced photo evaluation. The results are absolutely incredible, almost TMI (too much information). Love how they show you who voted for you and make it easy to message them. Only problem is you have to rate 100...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Site Technology, Profiles & Matching
Nobody, and I mean nobody, is crushing social media marketing like HowAboutWe, but I do like some of the social media stuff coming from eHarmony. How Ironic that most of the eHarmony posts on this blog are about their technology. Its crazy that the media is *still*...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Back in the day, every dating site had some sort of a wink feature. Called by many different names, the feature was a lightweight way for one dating site members to show interest in each other. For women, for the most part, winks were more trouble than they were...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Match has implemented a HotorNot-style browsing feature on member homepages called You Might Like. It’s a simple feature, the two options are Skip and Save. Skip I get, but why Save? People’s Saved Favorites list is where great matches go to die. Why not provide...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Its difficult enough to teach kids how to just be kids these days, and now they are seeing directives like this in games for 11-year-olds. Via Reddit. This is so wrong.
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Over the weekend I made a number of changes to the blog. New ad units More teaser posts at bottom of home page Recommend/Related posts are back New font Cleaner sidebar New footer with tweets and recent comment New archive page Had some fun with the header banner Lots...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Innovation
Hot new dating app of the week. Received an email about an iPhone app called Let’s Date from the creators of Suicide Girls (edgier Nerve.com). Absolutely gorgeous interface and I like how it imports my FB data to create my profile (called a Date Card). When you...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
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