by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
While this is not 100% accurate, and doesn’t take into account the vagaries of website vs. Facebook traffic, it certainly looks like the tables have turned on Zoosk vs. Are You Interested Facebook app traffic. I wish we could get access to a blend of website and...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Its always been remarkable to me that more people do not post video status updates to their Facebook pages. Well, it looks like Video messaging is coming to Facebook. Rob Glasser, founder of RealNetworks, has co-founded SocialEyes, which is launching at the DEMO...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
National Post has a solid overview of Canadian dating companies. Hard to believe that Plentyoffish, Date.com and several others weren’t mentioned. ChristianCafe.com got some love, happy 12th birthday to Sam and the team! The Canadian dating market is estimated...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
Several people emailed to ask about OKCupid removing personality badges, which appear to have been removed from the site. I reached out to Sam@OKCupid who said: “They were confusing and not as attractive as they could be. So, in the spirit of simplifying the...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
A prominent matchmaker sent me exclusive news that Oprah’s best gal-pal Gayle King hired her to find her a suitable girlfriend. Orly the Matchmaker, the worlds priciest matchmaker, tells all in the March 7th National Enquirer, but you’re hearing it here...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Profiles & Matching, Uncategorized
The OKCupid team is back from buying Ferrari’s, liquid-cooled multi-core webservers, big sunglasses and whatever else one does after earning a $50 million windfall. Never one’s to sit on their laurels for long, the OKCupid A-list freemium feature has...
by David Evans | Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
Amazing and sad to see the collapse of Myspace. Looks like Mike Jones and the rest of the team were unable to right the ship in time as it appears the site is looking to be acquired. Still, 45 million monthly vistors is absolutely incredible. Via Silicon Alley...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Mobile Dating
Long-time advertiser Boonex has announced that social/dating platform Dolphin 7.0.5 has been released. What was expected to be a minor service update, but it actually turned out to be a significant bunch of improvements and fixes. They highly recommend upgrading your...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Mobile Dating
Over the years we have come across a number of safe-dating websites, apps and mobile phone alert services. A new services, myDateTrackerAlert, aims to remove some of the risk of that first face-to-face encounter. When you need help, when you don’t check in, they...