by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
The NY Times has a piece (reg. req’d) on the plateauing of the online dating industry. Lot’s of glum anecdotes about people getting burned out, disappointed in the experience, and going back to offline dating activities like speed dating, group dates, etc....
by David Evans | Uncategorized
True.com is rehiring after slashing 60 percent of its 162 original employees.
by David Evans | Dating Research
Every since the checkbox and radio button were invented, websites have polled visitors about their experiences and desires. Dating site surveys range from psychologically-revealing (if you were an animal, what would it be?) to the mundane (boxers or briefs?). Date and...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
The only people I heard talking about Myspace before last week were dating industry executives busy pontificating that social networking will experience a popularity explosion as online dating has, only bigger. How omnipotent of them. Things are certainly looking good...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
Signaling its rapid expansion into the American mobile service marketplace, g8wave (pronounced “gatewave”) has teamed up with m-Qube to launch txt2flrt, a premium billed text messaging service in conjunction with its U.S. media affiliates, including about...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Dagens Media reported last week that Svenska Dagbladet is launching an online dating service together with Match.com, to help “Swedish singles to find other singles”. New members who wish to find a soulmate will have to pay a fee of 249 crowns a month,...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Newsflash: SITRACon II speaker presentations will be made available to all attendees tomorrow.
by David Evans | Uncategorized
It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link (see below for an example). We’ll be using “blink” posts here at Online Dating Insider to share links to articles, resources, and websites of interest that do not necessarily require paragraphs of...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
I haven’t even filed my expense report and here it is time to register for another dating conference. Mark your calendar for January 19-20, 2005 in Miami. Its the Internet Dating Conference taking place at the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort...
by David Evans | Marketing
Mr. “Men are From Mars” kicked off the hour-long event by telling the heart-wrenching story of his father dying of heat stroke, locked in the trunk of a car. It may have been a transformative event for him but it was a total downer to listen to. Next, he...