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Twenty years ago I was working with Tangent Design and Modem Media to develop interactive content for AT&T and Zima. The guy who’s place I took at Tangent Design ended up founding Razorfish a few months later. Anyone remember The Blue Dot? This Is The’s...Dating Profile Moderation In the Philippines
Most social sites, and some dating sites and apps, use humans in the Philippines to moderate profile content. Over 100,000 people there spend their days looking at the most disturbing things you could imagine, and then some. Everybody hits the wall, generally between...Second Life Creator Builds Next-Gen Virtual Worlds
In the early 1990’s I was part of the Boston Computer Society Virtual Reality Group. We built clunky virtual worlds viewable in scary head-mounted monitors and at any time someone in the group had very expensive high-performance computers on loan from various...Tinder Turns on The Revenue Tap
Tinder is going to offer freemium services in a few weeks. The new premium service will likely let users break away from location limits and expand their Tinder reach. “We are adding features users have been begging us for,” said Rad. “They will offer so much value we...Crowdfunding A New TV Pilot, Love’s Bounty Hunter
Love’s Bounty Hunter is a new comedy series that reveals the inner workings of a fictional online dating company and the people who play Cupid there. Our story follows Claire Desmond, who is coerced into signing a contract with America’s largest online dating...Cupid Subscriber Count Plummets
I always thought of Cupid as Spark Networks with more adult services. Judging by their current situation, I stand by this. Cupid, which runs subscription-based dating websites such as Cupid.com, UniformDating.com and LoveBeginsAt.com, announced £3m ($4.9m) in pre-tax...Zoosk IPO: The Offering Price Is Everything
Seeking Alpha has an article about the planned Zoosk IPO. A couple of datapoints for those tracking this evolving situation. High Operating Expenses Raise Red Flag: The extremely high operating expenses (72% of revenue in fiscal 2013) raise concerns that this is a...HowAboutWe co-founder: How to Avoid Delusional Thinking in Start-up Growth Strategy
Over the years I have posted many links to Andrew Chen. Andrew has a great guest post written by Aaron Schildkrout, co-counder of HowAboutWe, which Match recently acquired. While we’re talking about the industry, SFGate has some great stories about the online...Siri, Get Me A Date
The team of engineers that created Siri, Apple’s voice-driven intelligent assistant, are creating a an advanced form of AI which “will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities. The stealth startup, Viv Labs, has been working on the...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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