How Do you Say What’s Your Sign In Chinese?
Meetic and China.com are partnering to provide online dating service to the expected 100 million eligible singles. Two things about this that I’m sure about. #1 Sounds like the site will be available in Engish, French and German. Ni hao? #2 Since its launch in...Interesting Factoid about JDate Founder and JLove
I was not aware until I read this press release that Alon Carmel, one of JDate’s founders, became a JLove investors in June 2006. The release is question is a clear Seinfeld, which I am making an official category. A Seinfeld is a press release about nothing,...Spark Networks Launches Private Calling, Games
Spark Networks plc (AMEX: LOV) announced today that it has launched live and anonymous calling and interactive games on a number of its online communities including AmericanSingles, Date.ca and CollegeLuv via Userplane Webchat and Webmessenger applications. This is...Dating Sites vs. Social Networking
I’m working on some feature comparison’s for clients and this morning I slurped down a few dozen personal ads from the top ten dating sites. Initially I was looking for ways to increase the value of ads by giving members the ability to add metatdata to...Match.com Pays $1 Million to Sponsor Sitcom
Match has landed a season-long product placement in a TBS sitcom through MediaHub, the media planning and buying division at Mullen. Match will shell out between $1-2 million to be features in My Boys, based on a woman sports reporter in Chicago. The...Match.com Members Remain Anonymous
Match.com reports the initial response to the new anonymous calling feature has been “extraordinary�?. Jane Thompson, a Match.com vice president (of what?): 275,000 people already have used the feature, which is being offered as a freebie to Match.com’s 15...Casual Encounterwear
I have a drawer full of tech company t-shirts going back to 1993. This is the first dating-related t-shirt I’d wear, not including the SafeDate shirt, which looked great on employes but I’m pretty much a liability when it comes to donning a South Beach...Ex-Microsofties Launch Crush or Flush
Crush or Flush, a mobile version of Hot or Not, is launching soon, with an added twist. Users can tag hotties or flush them. Flushing is really just the ability to ignore people. I’d rather see a 1-10 style rating system, but then again I’m not 25 and can...New Features at Consumating
Ben Brown is the creator of Consumating.com. After our first conversation I will always imagine him coding on a Powerbook next to the grill in his backyard in Austin, TX, drinking PBR’s out of the can, surrounded by 20-something hipsters. Ben sold Consumating to...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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