by David Evans | Marketing
I’ve been going to Starbucks looking for evidence of their Starbucks partnership and I have yet to find anything more than the Starbucks card with the hearts on it, but no mention of Yahoo Personals. The Espresso Dating partnership includes a link on the...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
I appreciate the comments people have been leaving. Nothing bad happened to me, in fact it’s all good. From what I can tell, iDate continues to be a decent show. Attendance was slightly down from last year, which doesn’t surprise me. As usual, the...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
Due to various circumstances I was not able to attend iDate. If you attended, send in your reports of the show. I’m hoping several readers people will sharing their thoughts and photos to give the rest of us an idea of what went on. Technorati Tags:...
by David Evans | Dating Research
I just read that over 33,000 eHarmony members got married in a twelve month period ending August 31, 2005. Dr. Neil Clark Warren: Soon-to-be-released research has found that eHarmony married couples are significantly happier than married couples who met by any other...
by David Evans | Interviews
Listening to Bill Gates, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Skype and Cisco CEO John Chambers and moderator Geoffry Moore (Crossing the Chasm) in Davos at the World Economic Forum. The podcast is a rich vein of deep thinking, too much to get into here...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
I’ve been playing around with Last.fm, the popular music recommendation engine. The service reads the list of songs I play in iTunes and creates a profile used by Last.fm to recommend other people and music I may like based on what I’ve been listening to....
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
iDate is next week and I wanted to talk a bit about the agenda. Recently I wrote about the iDate speaker schedule and improbable iDate sessions which is sure to provide a chuckle. The format this year is morning seminars and lectures, followed by afternoon workshops....
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
This is sure to be a first. According to CNET, Wiriadi Sutrisno works as a physiotherapist in California, and Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi is from the Indonesian city of Bandung. “We’ve exchanged photos, chat almost daily and often call each other, but...
by David Evans | Marketing
Late night TV last night was full of dating commercials and talk show references. Early on I saw several Eharmony commercials and as the night progressed a few for Quest personals with blonde on bed in nightie doing the 1-900 pitch. Doesn’t Vertrue makes...