by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Let the Badoo cloning begin. Just as 25+ companies attempted to ride the coattails of Chatroulette (every single one failed), requests for Badoo clones are starting to appear on freelance developer sites. While I doubt that a $5,000 eLance site is going to achieve...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
Following along with the liveblog for the Apple iPhone event. Seeing this, I wonder how long before Cupidtino and other dating sites will take advantage of the “Find My Friends” iOS feature. Create a temporary event, invite friends, but location sharing...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Edit: Source clarification. Greg Blatt, the CEO of IAC spoke at Goldman’s Communacopia Conference in September. Below are the dating-related highlights from his presentation published by GIR. Prior to being appointed CEO in December 2010, Greg Blatt served as the CEO...
by David Evans | Marketing
Successful dating companies pay extremely close attention to their daily revenues and related affiliate program performance, tuning payouts accordingly. Taking you eye off the ball, even for a day, can screw up your marketing numbers for the month. I’ve been...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
ChristianCafe.com co-founder Sam Moorcroft was recently on a national Canadian Christian TV show called “Full Circle”. The show featured a former hostess of the show who met and married her husband from ChristianCafe.com. Talk about a great testimonial....
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
Jiayuan, China’s largest online dating platform, has launched a new English-speaking online dating website, IsThisFate. Aimed at expats living in China, overseas Chinese looking to reconnect, and anyone interested in Chinese romance, IsThisFate attempting to...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Profiles & Matching
Heading to the Harpoon Octoberfest party on the waterfront tonight along with a few thousand other dejected Red Sox fans. This has been a trying month, not only in baseball, but getting blog posts out. Don’t you worry, lots of good stuff coming down the pipe....
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
It was a great looking site, innovative and fresh beta launch, nice design and features, and still gay dating site Fabulis wasn’t able to grow large enough to remain in existence. Now its a pop-up shop. Lots of money, expert internet marketing, strong team and...
by David Evans | Dating Safety
ExRated.co is a new social media site with a unique twist. Geared towards empowering singles, ExRated allows users to read reviews of potential dates written by their ex’s as well as post reviews of their own. The ratings provide a general 1 to 5 star scale...