by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Single Again magazine, an award winning website, on the web since 1997, receives an average of 1 million hits per year. High viewer survey and “stickyness� rating. Content driven site, with many regular contributors and authors, articles and archives. Over 200...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Head on over to Technorati to read part two. – 900,000 posts created each day. That’s about 37,500 posts every hour, or 10.4 posts per second. – On average, public blog posts are indexed by Technorati in less than 5 minutes after they are created or...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching
This week, social calendar service Evite is rolling out several new features related to memeber profiles. With the new Contact Manager, you can: – Create groups to manage your friends’ information – Request updated contact and profile information...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Beautiful People is a UK-based site that charges $10 signup fee and $20 per month to join. BeautifulPeople.net is an online community whose purpose is to create relationships, both private and professional, between people who because of their attractive appearance and...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Match has rolled out Connections, “The #1 way to manage your love life.” Enables you to see all your winks, emails and matches in one place. One new feature I see is a tab which tell you who’s turn it is to communicate. The other is how many emails...
by David Evans | Dating Research
From Technorati- The blogosphere has just about doubled again in the past 5 months (7.8 to 14.2 million). 80,000 new blogs a day, roughly one a second. 55% of all blogs are considered active, they contain a post within the last three months. See how easy it was for...
by David Evans | Marketing
Duane Dahl, CEO of PerfectMatch, wanted me to pass along his response to my post about the father-daughter date scene in Must Love Dogs. As our team consulted from the early days of the script we are in fact thrilled with our historic integration into this terrific...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Lavalife flat at 600k members, and is a dispointment for Vertrue. Projected 10% growth in 2006. Advertising to be stopped in US market. (They were major major spyware advertiser). Major shift to advertising and spending money in the canadian market and a push of...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Trufina, to which I am an advisor, has a short piece in the Washington Post. Engage.com launched recently. I’m working with Corante on our first big event, the Podcast Hotel, September 6-8 in Portland OR. Various dating site evaluation projects. Pushing forward...