by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Dr. James, Houran has written an article at Onlinedatingmagazine warning singles to avoid falling for scientific matching hype that has permeated the online dating industry. Houran comes across as the tell-all scientist who knows the dark secrets of the dating...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
IamFreeTonight has launched on Facebook, although I can’t find the service in the applications listing. Talking about launching HotOrNot on Facebook (which isn’t a dating site IMHO), Markus at Plentyoffish says: As for growing pageviews via facebook I...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
After several years of losing ground to competitors and upstarts like Match.com and eHarmony, Yahoo! Personals is updating it’s creaky dating application and bringing it up to par with other paid dating services. The new dating platform should make it easier to...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups
It’s been fun watching everyone I know starting to move over to Facebook ever since the new Facebook Platform launched several weeks ago. The great rush to Myspace is over and I’m never going back. I’ve installed the Firefox Facebook Toolbar, which...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
I turned it on, saw some woman hiking a football to a guy, got bored and turned it off. Did I miss anything? Was the show sponsored by Perfectmatch? I found a Perfectmatch telivision commercial on the site. I like the BBC version or the Economist article then again,...
by David Evans | Dating Markets
Holly Campbell, host of “What a Woman Can Do” is hosting a one-hour teleseminar focusing on the concept of “Law & Attraction,” which became a buzz word after the movie “The Secret,” recently featured on Oprah. Laura Lopez, known...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
After only a few weeks, Facebook’s new platform shows 40 dating applications. Most are enhanced ways to poke, match up or meet new people, only a few are based on actual dating sites. Here are a few I came across that piqued my interest. fbDating Connections...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Talk about annoying. Match demands non-members subscribe for the privilege of viewing profiles. I had to create a fake member and give them my phone number, but the link that explains the phone number never popped up. I bet it was for the Concierge service, but how...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
Few online dating sites have the resources to run advertising on television and cable. Sites like Mate1 and True prefer to spend over $20 million yearly on online advertising. When it comes to television advertising, EHarmony, Match and newcomer Chemistry.com come to...
by David Evans | Marketing
There are many blogs written by dating site executives, script developers, marketers and other people in the online dating industry which I would like to add to my blogroll. If you know of, work for or write a dating industry-related blog, let us know in the...