“Honest” Online Daters Are The Biggest Scammers
When I met Maria Coder a few years ago, she was writing about online dating for the Examiner blog network. Today, Maria runs Investidate, a service which offers workshops focused on making sure your date is who they say they and how to navigate the complicated world...Location-Based Skout Raises Additional $22 Million
Several years ago I met Christian and (at the time) Redg at Skout, think it was iDate. After talking to them a while I wanted to help them out with fundraising, so I went to the usual suspects and sat in on some investor meetings on Skout’s behalf. Nobody was...Rocket Ninja Launches Lightweight Dating App Be3D
While we wait for society and dating sites to figure out how to do video profiles and videochat, the dating industry has had one option when it comes to getting past static profiles. OmniDate, which many readers will remember from iDates past, was the only pure-play...Dating Sites on Pinterest
Like the other 10 million of you, I’ve spent some time pinning away on Pinterest. I now understand why the service is 90% women, because most dudes are not going to pin anything unless its girls, guns, stuff with engines or showing off their man caves. Women, on...FourSquare Banning Stalking Apps
Mobile applications that track and make your current location public have proliferated in recent years. Almost all of these efforts have been tied into public Foursquare, and now Facebook, checkins. My favorite has always been Assisted Serendipity, which I’ve...Online Dating Industry Weekly Wrapup
Happy Friday, #followfriday, TGIF and all of that. I threw a bunch of fun and interesting links up on the Online Dating Industry Insider Scoop.it page. Finishing my move to Vermont this weekend, back next week. Here’s to hoping that the cable modem in the woods...Profile Sellers, The Dating Industry’s Bad Actors
Anyone who’s been on a dating site has seen them. She’s a beautiful girl with poor grammar skills. She wants to talk via her Yahoo email account and within a few emails she’s often asking for money to come visit you. Thats a clear indication of a...I’m In Like With You founder Becomes Filthy Rich Overnight
Once upon a time there was a casual auction-based dating site called I’m in Like With You. The basic premise of the site was to gain points for bidding on people by answering questions. I never really understood the site, and then it went away. But this is not a...ChristianMingle Advisor Steps Into The Spotlight
Have you been following the ChristianMingle saga? This is great theater and Spark Networks must be loving the free publicity from Leno, Colbert, etc. Especially delicious is the irony that Spark Networks also runs JDate. Oh what a difference some copywriting and a...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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