EVENT: iDate at Miami Convention Center
Bad news, I have a scheduling conflict with iDate and won’t be attending this year. Thanks to all of you who have written to see if I was going or speaking. Alas, the powers that be at iDate once again don’t seem to think I have anything to contribute to...Happy New Year
I hope everyone had a great holidays. I escaped to the woods of Vermont for a week of badly needed downtime. I’m glad my parents finally got satellite internet access but it felt great to sit on front of the wood stove with a regular book instead of a Powerbook...Yahoo Personals Customizable profile
As I previously mentioned, Yahoo Personals has rolled out a few enhancements to the service. Have you seen the overview of the new customizable profile? Very nice. I like the idea of being able to customize the quick view, displaying the traits you feel most important...Holiday Dating Gift Certificates
ProfileHelper Gift Certificates are the perfect holiday gift idea for single friends and relatives interested in online dating. $149.95 is pretty steep for a conversation and a profile polish but what’s 14,995 pennies for someone you care about? Match is...Engage Wishes Members Happy Holidays
Today I received a Happy Holiday email from Engage (disclosure: a past client). This was the only dating site that sent out a holiday greeting to it’s members, at least of all the sites I belong to. A nice touch. They have a few job openings as well. Engage was...eHarmony Launches Marriage Wellness Program
Earlier this year I worked closely with a startup that wanted to address the issues of marrieds and couples over 40. Clearly there was a need for some sort of online component to keeping married people happy, when I was talking with them they were trying to figure out...Firefox SEO Tools
MIT Advertising Lab writes about a new SEO plug-in for Firefox. SEO for Firefox is a little plug-in for search engine optimizers (optimizators?) that ammends Google and Yahoo search results will all sorts of related trivia on sites that show up in the search results....New Dating Script
Dmitry Rudakov wrote from Moscow to tell me about his social-dating software script AbleDating. All he said was that they pay attention to some “tasty� things like 3d chat, games etc. Has anyone used this? Leave a comment is you have any experience with this $597...Match My Boys Product Placement Update
Media Daily News weighs in on the Match.com product placement in the new TBS show “My Boysâ€?. Judging by the brand’s appearance in the Nov. 28 debut episode, the product placement feels forced, a potential consumer turn-off. This despite Match’s CEO...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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