by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing
Markus links to a great post comparing unique visitors vs. actual member logins to dating sites and show the top 10 rankings for each. …Ranking online dating sites purely on visitor traffic is flawed; membership is a prerequisite to use the services, and member...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
A new social network for moms called MomJunction has raised $1.5 million in first round funding. I pulled the following from the press release and the website. MomJunction is the first full-featured Personal Online Desktop for moms that allows them to manage family,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this, must have been too much eggnog during the holidays. Mining/holding company Mountains West have announced their intention to merge Together, The Right One and eLove to create an off-and-online dating powerhouse....
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
I was checking something out on About.com and saw this ad for Yahoo Personals. Y! is entering into various partnerships with high-traffic sites, I keep coming across them randomly from time to time.
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Virtual world Second Life has released the source code that powers the client side of the popular 3D environment. While there are lots of issues with security and the service tends to go down fairly often, providing the “schematics� of how SL works to developers...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
PC World Senior Editor Tom Spring signed up for 32 online accounts and then tried to cancel them, documenting the incredible hassle, false billing charges, and crazy runaround he got from vendor after vendor. True.com is featured. Overbilling confusing verbiage make...
by David Evans | Marketing, Uncategorized
Walking around Manhattan I came across these ads for Dumpcupid. I thought it might be for a dating site, but it’s for Herbal Essences. A couple of videos of a fat guy impersonating Cupid. I got drawn in but I’m definitely not their demographic
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Here I sit, with Dave, about to enter the stratosphere: blogging. Why? Because two years ago Match.com came to me to design a new dating site, Chemistry.com. You fall in love for many reasons, but among them is certainly chemistry. And today 91% of American women and...
by David Evans | Marketing, Profiles & Matching
Jessica Mintz at Businessweek shines a spotlight on online dating. Yahoo, ranked the number one site, declined 14 percent in November compared with the previous year. Match.com had 12 percent fewer visitors in November, year-over-year. Match made $80 million last...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
A new Online Dating Toolbar has been released which online dating news via RSS feeds, pulls in some coupons and provides links to dating sites. There are a lot of features not related to dating, but thats what you get when you build on top of Conduit, a free community...