by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Not satisfied with running the best dating site on the planet, OkCupid parent company Humor Rainbow appears to be launching a service to help match up potential roommates. If Humor Rainbow can pull it off, the process of searching, finding and vetting potential...
by David Evans | Dating Research
The Love Competition from Brent Hoff on Vimeo. This has nothing to do with the business of online dating. In fact, this is the farthest thing I’ve ever seen from what we perceive as the human experience of online dating. This is about love. Online dating...
by David Evans | Marketing
I cannot wait until social actions become the norm for organic search results. At first its going to be a big problem, but link rank has got to go away, at least in its current incarnation. Inbound Links != authority. Number of Facebook Likes, # of times song played...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
In the name of research, I have tried just about every location-based dating app out there. Its exciting to fire up a new app and that a cute single person two blocks away might want to eat squid pancakes with me while watching a Felini movie in a public park nearby....
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Its common knowledge that website testing can bring in double-digit revenue increases, so why do so many dating sites stick with the same design and layout year after year? My mantra with clients is test, test, test. We learned this from companies like Google, which...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Out of the blue I received an email from Hi5, the social gaming network. Social gaming, sure thing boss. The next screen had broken images on it, and the hot or not feature didn’t even show the person’s photo. Then I saw the usual Badoo-style strip of...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Happy Friday, I actually remembered to #followfriday some dating industry peeps on Twitter today. Follow me at @datinginsider. The dating industry is going to love Narrative Data. This paragraph from Monday Note supports my longstanding belief that dating sites are...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
FlikDate brings real-time video dating from your phone. The latest version of the mobile app is available in Itunes. New features include: Flikdate Parties: join our scheduled party events to meet new Fliksters – we’ll even send you an invite to make sure you...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
A billboard depicting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in an advertisement for a marital affairs website has been pulled down from its perch in South Boston. “Apparently I put up an ad not in America, but in some country where freedom of expression isn’t...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Goodbye Jazzed, hello eHarmony. I hope everyone is having a lovely National Singles Week. HuffPo has all the relevant Someecards for you. Iovation launched the Virtual Crime-Fighting Network, where customers and fraud professionals can connect in private. Scamalytics...