iDate media announcements
PR and media types, if you plan on sending out pre-conference press releases, product or service annoucements, let me know and I’ll post them here. Feel free to send out releases under embargo, make sure to clearly note the release date. I’ll be announcing...Protopage
Personalized portals help keep track of our digital lifestyles. I use MyYahoo from time to time, mostly for tv listings, stock tracking, and weather. I’ve always wanted the next version of MyYahoo. Unfortunately, Google is not it. Protopage looks like it could...Tribe.net and the 2257 law
Pr0n-meistress Violet Blue says: Tribe.net is *voluntarily* applying the 2257 laws to itself — its members, the tribes and the very architecture of Tribe itself. Federal law 2257 now requires website owners to keep *physical* records documenting, among other...Customer acquisition via call centers
Bill Broadbent at Instinct Marketing said: If the average call cost is $10 and you have a ballpark labor cost of $4 per call (20 minutes with $12 total hourly comp) and say a 20% optimistic closing ratio (from call to paying customer) you’re looking at an...Audio posts are back
I’ve re-inserted links to MP3 versions of every post, courtesy of Talkr.com.The Real Autumn Marzec?
Robin Hamman blogs about the Match date-baiting lawsuit. He’s done some Googl’ing and dug up a photo of Autumn Marzec, who’s sworn statement confirms she has never been an employee of Match.com, nor was she ever paid to go on dates with any members...Myspace, the full story
Cliff Kurtzman sent me a link to his article, The Acquisition of MySpace. Great stuff, a must-read if you’re at all interested in the history of Myspace and want to know more about it’s financials. Also talks about Friendster. [tags: myspace]Weekly Online Dating Recap
It’s been an important week for the dating industry. Here are a few stories that didn’t make the front page. Anonymous calling A whole slew of companies have tried to enter the dating market to offer anonymous calling services. Most gave up and went after...Matchwords still broken, new profile layout
Match.com’s Matchwords seem to be working in people’s profiles, but continue to be broken at the main page. When I add a Matchword from someone else’s profile to mine, I can’t tell the word has been successfully added except for the word being...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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