Yahoo, Technorati “Dating Industry” search
Due to the fact that I’ve been working on several projects, I’ve had to choose between listing every press release to come across my desk and saving my thoughts for posts that touch on what I consider more important issues facing the dating industry. For...Spam filter woes
Thanks to all of you who pointed out that your comments were not making it onto the blog. Turns out our publishing system (Movable Type), somehow had the phrase “online” added to it’s blacklist of phrases, making most everyone’s posts get stuck...Yahoo Personals has a new GM
After only a year, Yahoo! Personals appointed Anna Zornosa to replace Lorna Borenstein as its new VP and general manager. FastCompany has a story on Zornosa’s wild IPO ride at Women.com. She has held positions and Knight Ridder Digital, Topica and several other...Media coverage of the dating industry
I get a lot of interview requests because the GoogleJuice for the blog is pretty good. Recently I was interviewed last week by TheStreet and I was surprised they went with the title “Web Dating Game Heats Up.” For interviews like that, I constantly attempt...Dating Industry Circa 2003
At one point I moved all my bookmarks to the social bookmarking service del.icio.us. They have a browser toolbar-based bookmark drop-down menu that displays my server-based bookmarks. If the originating file is removed, I’m basically back to Google to re-find...Me on Marketplace on Date-Baiting
On Monday I’ll be on Marketplace talking with Ashley Milne-Tyte about the class-action suits against Match and Yahoo. Check your local public radio listings for times and I’ll see if I can link to an MP3 podcast of the interview. [tags:...Online daters sue matchmaking sites for fraud
I came across a press release stating that “Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp., is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit...Site Review: Profiles on your iPod with PodDating
Today I spoke Jon Myers, VP of Strategy at PodDater. PodDater was created to leverage the new video-enabled iPods. PodDater is the world’s first dating/social networking site that brings together the growing popularity of the online dating space and the enormous...All you GooglBase belong to us
Lot’s going on today. GoogleBase launched, go check out my profile. There are lots of security vulnerabilities, the interface is klunky and I need a few days to figure out how to roll out GoogleDating but it’s a start. People are going to have a field day...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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