How Shady is Shadi.com?
Indian dating site Shadi.com has been posting their customer list on the homepage to increase their search engine ranking. Originally they were posting the first and last names, but after a tipster complained, they seem to have removed last names. To say this is an...200 Million OkCupid Questions and Counting
I wasn’t going to mention this until I read the first paragraph of the press release. 200 million questions is a lot, but more from the perspective of “who ARE these people?” than gawking at the sheer amount of data OkCupid is able to gather from...Luvoo’s Kooky Growth Strategy
Infamous “pink sheet” dating site Luvoo is going to start charging members $29.95 a year, ditching the free subscription model. Luvoo mentions stock prices of their competitors in all their press releases to show how warm and fuzzy they are. Feels like a...STD Dating Site For Sale
Stdfriends.com is putting itself up for sale. stdFriends is the second largest dating site for people living with STDs. This network currently has over 42,000 members and still growing. This site is also one of the oldest – it has been running since 2002....The Importance of a Compelling Personal Ad
New York Times on dating profiles, coaches and the importance of great photos. A handful of people make a decent living doing coaching and taking photos, I’ve always thought the process needed to be automated to operate at internet scale. Why help one person for...List of White Label Social Networking Platforms
Jeremiah Owyang, web strategist at Podtech has put together a great list of social networking platforms that could be branded or changed as needed. Some of these are in the Tools & Services section but this list shows I need to update the list. Go build your...Friendster Scores Another Social Networking Patent?
Mashable thinks another social networking patent has been awarded to Friendster. Supposedly the patent, filed on August 25th 2006, was issued on March 6th 2007. Friendster already has several social networking patents.Personality Testing Systems, Time for a Shootout?
If you haven’t read it, head on over to Mark Brooks blog to read all the comments about personality matching systems. One of the best overviews to date of the various perspectives held by industry experts who design, test and validate matching systems for a...True.com’s Latest Marketing Ploy
I’m seeing more and more Myspace profiles like this one of a young woman who says: Friends keep asking me to take revealing pics of myself. I’ve taken some but myspace won’t let us post nude pics. If you want to see my revealing ones, I’ve...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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