by David Evans | Dating Research
Yesterday I spent some time taking eight years of Match financials and putting them into Excel. Did you know that back in 2000 Match’s conversion ratio was around 10%? Too bad they don’t list those types of details anymore (that I could find.) Fernando,...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Dating is great, but sometimes you just want to put the diamond ring shopping on hold and have some fun with a safe and supportive friend. HowAboutWe (notice new home page featuring social feed like Facebook) gets this and has put together a list of commandments to...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
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by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking, Uncategorized
Years before Mark Zuckerberg, or the Winklevoss twins, or Facebook, Harvard played host to the original war over social-networking start-ups. For that story, GQ had to go all the way back to 1965 and the birth pangs of computer dating.
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
Boston-based mobile-only social network Mocospace is looking at acquiring MySpace. What happened to Myspace still amazes me, but what’s even more remarkable is that Mocospace has 14 million members in their mobile communities. Five years ago nobody gave much...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Dating site startup DateBuzz did some number crunching to flesh out which of the most popular dating rules held up based on the experiences of their users. From the Earth’s current axial tilt to Men are From Mars… to the authors of The Rules, the common thought...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
There is clearly not enough published about the secrets and easter eggs (hidden features), or best practices for using [insert dating site]. In Who Wants The Secret To More Replies on Match.com? OKCupid and Match are producing research based on datamining (which are...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Looks like TechCrunch just figured out that some dating sites use bots to send out automated messages after a person signs up. True or not, the blogger put up a profile with a horses photo on WooMe and got lots of attention mere seconds after signing up. The WooMe CEO...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Fear not, singletons, don’t despair, depressed daters. Valentine’s day is around the corner and if anything is going to lift your spirits and melt the winter blahs its this next clip. Melted my grumpy mood and put a smile on my face, which was sorely...