by David Evans | Dating Site Features
IMVU users can now develop for their world-like 3D chatspace using SketchUp, the free 3D design program bought by Google some months back. SecondLife should have a SketchUp importer one of these days. I got a lot of flak from people when I last mentioned IMVU and how...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Mark Brooks interviewed Evan Katz, founder of e-Cyrano. Worth reading, as Evan is one of the most visible value-added service providers in the dating space. The majority of online daters write unappealing, ineffective, generic profiles. Helping people write better...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Virtual world builders Rivers Run Red have built the Swedish social network PlayAhead inside SecondLife. I’ve been spending more time in SL and it appears that the 3D internet is slowing coming to fruition. c|net’s Michael Parsons has a review....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
What a week. Facebook and Yahoo are dancing, Comscore rolls out wildly inaccurate numbers (Zencon?), Dogester raises $1 million bones, dead people on Myspace, FriendFinder turns 10, all my friends are sick, getting married or having babies, Plentyoffish continues to...
by David Evans | Marketing
I wonder what drove True to internally build and launch a targeted on-site advertising system? Is it because visitors aren’t converting to members and they want to makes what they can off the massive amount of pageviews they are probably logging due to...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a story about Spyder, a Mac desktop application for managing social networking. For now, it only works with Myspace, and the price is a whopping $40. this totally breaks Myspace’s terms and conditions, I don’t expect it to...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Tech Crunch says: Friends For Families, a sort of match.com for families, quotes a study that says 25% of people claim that that they have no close personal friends. They aim to help families find other, compatible families to establish friendships. At its core it’s...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
Meetic, a leading European online dating network, announced that is has validated the screenplay for the “Meetic� film, which will be shot and released in 2007. The shooting of this romantic comedy should begin during the first quarter of 2007, with the film...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
I was clicking around Match recently and see that members can now search by state, major city and various communities: religion, non-smoking, teachers, liberal, athletic, etc. Match is taking a play from the Matchmaker and many other dating sites (and Facebook), by...
by David Evans | Dating Research
The RateOrDate blog continues to impress. Now they have gone and researched the relationship between online personals and newspapers in the US. Observations: Almost 1/3 of newspapers have no online-personals partner? Which side is dropping the ball? The top two...