by David Evans | Uncategorized
Bambi Francisco at MarketWatch asks why dating sites are still charging when social networking sites like Myspace offer free access to multitudes of singles. She asks why would a consumer bother paying to be in front of Match’s 15 million members around the...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
Pendulum Communications has launched a scam and fraud consulting service. Scam Vigilante will focus exclusively on assisting online relationship providers who are concerned about this crisis and the outcome it will have on their ability to keep membership levels...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
My celebrity peeps are always complaining they need more friends. Often, when signing autographs outside a trendy LA nightclub, they opine wistfully about the meaning of life and how lonely they feel. I hate to see friends unhappy, so I decided to check out Couplets....
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Match.com has launched its new Make Love Happen(TM) Guarantee. The guarantee promises new subscribers they’ll meet someone special in six months or less, or Match.com will give them an additional six-month subscription for free. New Match.com members who sign up...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
I was hopping mad when I heard that only 1 in 10 people have even heard of RSS, and a mere 2 percent actually use it. When can I finally start a post, “As more and more people adopt RSS newsreaders for keeping up with their news..?” There are currently 216...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
Thomas Technologies International, a leader in private-label behavioral assessment software and related personality reporting, has partnered with JLove LLC to offer JType™– a customized suite of Thomas’ web-dating applications. Yoav Cohen, JLove’s founder...
by David Evans | Marketing
Amazon launched aStore, an easy to set up affiliate tool, this week and I decided to create a small store to test the system. Behold the Online Dating Insider Store. Right now it’s only books and very simple. I’ll be playing around with it, adding and...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Master Skype mashup king Hans Blaauw has built a when2date, a dating site that integrates Skype and Rapleaf, a reputation management system I’m familiar with due to their partner status with Opinity, an identity management service provider I’m advising....
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
Now that Google has hired most of the big brains in academia, Yahoo is rushing to catch up. In the dating space, Yahoo is hiring PhD’s to figure out how to use economics to save attractive women from unwanted solicitations on an Internet dating site. While...
by David Evans | Marketing
After taking a few days to go camping and hiking in New Hampshire I logged into Match.com from someone else’s computer. Look at how awful the home page looks. So much text which has been tweaked for search engines and mostly useless to humans. Why do they ask...