by David Evans | Uncategorized
First, a shout-out and big thanks to long-time sponsor Userplane for their ongoing support. On today’s menu: freshly redesigned rate sheets, new ad sizes and additional sponsorship opportunities. Online Dating Insider is a prime location to get your company out...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Dating site owners continue to get out of the market while the getting is good. A few more consolidations and it’s going to be a handful of mega-sites and a thousand niches struggling to survive. In today’s news, it looks like Vertrue has found a buyer,...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
David Cassel at 10zenmonkies.com has a funny Twitter post. I am loving 10zen, RU Sirius, video interview with Rudy Rucker, references to Jaron Lanier, early days of Virtual Reality and lots more edgy stuff. Good stuff for your brain. Also, they use Blip.tv, which...
by David Evans | Marketing
Chemistry.com is set to launch a TV campaign that will debut in late April and early May and run for over a month. They also announced a 100% commission structure for affiliates.
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
I was on the phone today with a client who had an older version of aeWebworks (now called Boonex) dating software, which is now called Dolphin. I went over to Boonex and checked out the live demo and thought, what the heck, lets’ see how difficult it is to...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
I just finished adding a new theme to my other blog, The Progress Bar, with a new template. TBP is where I write about Web 2.0, social media, identity, leading-edge internet marketing and other early-adopter topics that don’t quite fit into a blog about the...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Enjoying the nice traffic spike from the link from the New York Times True.com article. Lots of IT-related posts about dating sites recently. Today, Level 3 announces it has launched an Internet-based phone service for online dating service Lavalife. Lavalife, which...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Welcome visitors from the New York Times. Readers of this blog know I have a good deal of contempt for True.com, one of the most talked about online dating sites in recent years. True, which attracted 3.8 million visitors last month and boasts 16 million members,...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Facebok had a Hackathon back in January that resulted in a plug-in for iPhoto that enables photo uploads directly into Facebook profiles. Gone are the days of the 10-step photo upload. Now you can export photos directly from your iPhoto library to a Facebook album,...