Fat Curves and thin tails
A financier’s discourse on the parallels between online dating and investing. Instant classic. Eric J. Fry, writing for The Daily Reckoning, an investment website: “You should try Match.com,” a friend suggested to your New York editor recently....JDate live events
I’ve been receiving a lot of JDate live events emails from their marketing machine. I signed up a while ago to check it out and have been receiving a steady flow of events, especially since Match gave up and went home, which is shorthand for deleting a...SITRACon II notes
An inversion is about to occcur. Social Networking will become the meta-market, with online dating, and business networking as sub-segments. Dating sites are beginning to integrate social networking into their sites. Don’t leave money on the table. Found your...FriendFinder Launches YoungAtHeart.com
FriendFinder Inc., the world’s largest online dating network, today announced the launch of YoungAtHeart.com, an online dating destination focused on serving the unique needs of the Baby Boomer generation. Created to answer the unmet needs of busy professionals...eBay and social networking
Thought of the morning: eBay has millions of members from vastly different backgrounds from all over the world who come together on the marketplace every day for business and fun. What’s to keep them from starting a social networking/dating site?Enpocket rolls out new apps
Enpocket, a global mobile media company, and Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless carrier, today announced the availability of four new applications on the Verizon Wireless Mobile Web 2.0(SM)service – Time Out City Guides, StarTrak Astrology,...Myspace a good investment?
Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com: Venture capitalists embraced Friendster and lavished it with a $53 million market valuation, when Friendster had negligible revenue but a lot of promise. Now there’s MySpace, a very similar site to Friendster in that MySpace...Symmetricity in compatibility
From Vladimir Savchenko @ compatti.com: After analyzing the compatibility results of 156,334 unique pairs from over 30,000 Compatti.com users using astrology we found very profound symmetricity in distribution of the compatibility scores. It was hard to ignore...Mobile Technology and Opportunities
Moderator: John Styers, Dir. Data services- Sprint PCS Panel members: Alex Panelli, CEO – Trilibis Ted Ceranu, VP – Enpocket Greg Wilfahrt, EVP – SMS.ac SMS.ac is community based. Trilibis and Enpocket are dating apps. Enpocket created Match Mobile...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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