by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Online Dating Innovation
Vivox came up with the phrase “graduated communication” which describes the act of moving from wink to IM to video seamlessly within the context of a conversation. I like the phrase contextual communication even better, but then this morning I realized...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating, Online Dating Innovation
Realtors are showing my building right now so I had to evacuate for a few hours to avoid the disruption. I’m at Starbucks, $10 for a day of wifi. Right about now I’d like to be working and listening to profiles on my Nano, which I forgot to bring so I am...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
I love Technorati and finding out who is linking to my site. Along with the good stuff, which I’ll get to in a minute, I find that unfortunately there are lots of clueless people out there who thinks its ok to pull my full or partial feed without attribution, or...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Jack Mardack left a very interesting comment in the post about synthetic validity. I tried to leave a comment on his blog but it was a real pain so here it is. He says: Whether you will be heartened or discouraged by developments such as this (new personalty testing...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch gets a lot of deserved heat for his glowing review of TrustedID. I’ve been following the ID verification, identity management, background check market for quite some time, advising companies like Trufina and talking to the...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation
A new trend is emerging where free dating sites add the phrase Skype on their home page and call themselves the next generation of online dating. Let me say it here once and for all. Starting a new dating or social networking site with a core differentiator solely...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
Icosystem unveiled Icosystem’s proprietary Hunch Engine technology during the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. WIRED News: When the user starts the hunch engine he is presented with a seed — a starting point — and a set of mutations....
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Bruce Sterling is the author of many incredible science fiction books. He’s also a heck of a writer and an eloquent speaker. I saw him a few years ago at Harvard Coop and he blew my mind, same as he did 10 years ago when I first saw him speak at Amherst. His...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
Piers Steel at the University of Calgary was nice enough to respond to my request for more information about his mathematical formula called Synthetic Validity; A mathematical theory that attempts to bridge the gap between individuals’ personalities and...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
Userplane is rolling out new features over the next few months. The following was part of an email sent to clients. Userplane Presence Although some Userplane clients have implemented infrastructure necessary to handle the burden of messaging and presence – many of...