by David Evans | Uncategorized
Link Tracking: Added Mybloglog, which shows how many times links are clicked on. Roll your mouse over links and a pop-up will display stats about the link. I’m considering if I should display the rank of the link or the number of times it’s been clicked....
by David Evans | Marketing
About a year ago I signed up for Dating on Demand, the Comcast cable channel for viewing dating video profiles. I received an email from them today, which was a bit of a surprise. I thought they had taken the service out to pasture long ago, because they aren’t...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
Avatars are hot. I’ve got ’em in SecondLife, Yahoo Chat, not to mention a few for bulletin board posting. Yahoo chat avatars are the easiest to create but you can’t do much with them, they just stand there. However, I love the audibles. Flirting,...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
If you who work for a dating site, founded a dating site, or are thinking about starting one, this post is for you. “The LEK” is a sitcom pilot about a fictional online dating site called The LEK. The episode focuses on the dating site company during the...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Spark executives will be talking about something or other at the Thomas Weisel Partners Internet & Telcom Conference. The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time at The St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
Engineers at Fujifilm are working on a terabyte holographic memory device the size of a sugar cube. When video profiles are finally in vogue this will come in handy. This weekend I am installing Linux on my iPod Nano so I can load Wikipedia on it. I got sick of...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
JDate founder Alon Carmel has a new gig. Carmel resigned from Spark Networks less than a month ago. Now we know what he is up to. The TechCrunch bunch says: Founder Alon Carmel is a gifted designer and developer and is getting ready to launch his stealth project...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Viacom CEO Tom Freston told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit the company will get into social networking this year: We don’t believe the game is over … Really, it’s just started. … I would expect within this year...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing
Found this about Alexa while looking at different VOIP clients today: Alexa does not calculate the actual number of users visiting Web sites… what we do instead is release raw data about how many people in a sample population (Alexa Toolbar users, among others)...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Conferences & Events
I’m adding a VOIP category to cover Skype, Vivox, Gizmo and emerging Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) products and services. There’s so much happening in this space as it directly relates to dating and social networking sites that it deserves it’s...