Date inside your party
NYTimes article (reg req) about intra-party relationships. Lot’s of niche sites popping up to make sure hawks and doves don’t expose their minds to a different worldview. If you watch Fox News 3 hours a day too, you may want to check out Kelly Larson, 34,...TRUE Becomes first dating service to verify members
TRUE and Rapsheets are busy verifying that people don’t have roommates. They even have a former Chief of Police of Dallas working with them. Citing a 75 % success rate as extremely accurate, I’m wondering how useful this service really is. Here’s the...The emergence of reputation systems
FirstMonday has an interesting article called a Manifesto for the Reputation Society. As I’ve been saying, identity verification from the likes of Trufina, Rapsheets and Verified Person is the next big thing that dating sites will add to address low customer...Online dating site reviews
Recently I have received several press releases announcing new websites that provide reviews of different personals services. Tryonlinedating.com, DateSeeker.net, DatingSitesReviews.com, eDateReview.com and DatingReviewsOnline.com are just a few of them. Send me the...Yahoo: Project RealPeople
Yahoo! is countering a common trend of dating sites using plastic-looking people in their marketing efforts and web ads. They’re looking for real singes to star in their new ad campaign. If you’re selected, you’re off to San Francisco in September...MatchNet gives $20,000 to the Terminator
After campaigning to ban fund raising during the budget writing season, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has accepted $20,000 from the co-chairman of MatchNet. Contracostatimes.com has more. (reg. req’d)Airline’s open seating breeds love connections
Funny article about how Southwest Airlines open seating plan makes it easy for singles to meet on the plane. As a part of building a brand image, the airline used to call its in-flight snacks “love bites” and its in-flight drinks “love...SITRAS Photos
Photos from the SITRAS conference in Miami are here.Millions of Singles mismatched!
The marketing machine at True.com remains in full swing. Now they’re saying that “Millions of Singles Could Be Using Flawed Compatibility Tests.” If that’s the case, I better call my girlfriend. After our first date we shared our compatibility...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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