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Digital Buzz turns us on to the scented banner ad. I kid you not. 17.2% click through rate. It would be cool to be amazing to assign scents to personal ads so when you are browsing someone you can smell their favorite smells. Looks are a big factor, but scent really...Online Dating Industry News For June 29, 2010
I was interviewed for False sense of security in users of dating sites which ran in The SF Chronicle. “We’re dealing with a lot of people who lack those street smarts,” said Dave Evans, editor of Online Dating Post, a blog about the business....Online Dating Industry News For June 25, 2010
Pixar is promoting Toy Story 3 by having Ken give us us dating advice. The whole series of 40 or so clips is amusing. This NYT article, Reflections in the Facebook Mirror riffs on how we engage in self-description online, mentions dating profiles. Facebook Unleashes...Domain Sale: Yourdatingbook.com
The domain yourdatingbook.com is for sale. Seller is looking for best offer. Contact me for more info.Meetcha Expands Markets
Meetcha.com, a new social dating site for adults, today announced its launch into the Portland, Maine market. Meetcha makes dating more fun and less pressured by offering adults one-on-one online matching plus PODS — People Out Doing Stuff(TM), where people with...Love Big Data? Infochimps Have an API Call for That
It’s only a matter of time before dating sites begin to mine social media and the social graph at Facebook and Twitter for people’s tastes and preferences. Infochimps has done the heavy lifting and offers services ranging from the free “Baboon”...What Love Means to a 4-8 year old
This is old but great. A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean? The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: “When my grandmother got...If only it Was This Easy
A woman in Alliance, OH had a few too many cosmos while watching reruns of Sex and the City and decided to call 911 and demand a man. Here’s how that call went, according to NBC4: Drunk Woman: Get me that husband. 911: You need to get a husband? Drunk Woman:...Not a Good Week for Matchmakers
Matchmaker Great Expectations has been accused of overpromising its goods with high-pressure sales pitches by the Washington state Attorney General. Speaking of Matchmakers, if this guy is yours, you may want to rethink things. Male matchmaker Easton has criminal...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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