Wii Fit Injury Turns Woman Into Sex Addict
Amanda Flowers, a 24-year-old from Manchester, England, claims she is now a sex addict after she fell off her Wii Fit board. She was told by a doctor that she had suffered a damaged nerve that has provoked “persistent sexual arousal syndrome.” Some people...Personalized Experiences Drive Member Loyalty at Match.com
Can you tell that I joined Match.com again? Lots of changes have happened in the last year, some more remarkable than others. I think its great that they figured out that personalization is important when it comes to member communication. The text under the red line...Academic Analysis of Energetic Compatibility
Last summer at iDate in Los Angeles I introduced Frank Seifert & Larry Michel of Matchmatrix to Dr. Jim Houran and told them they should do something together. Frank says: After meeting at the June 2009 Los Angeles iDate conference, Jim Houran asked if we would be...A Critial Look at Point and Click Horoscope Matchmaking
Today my calendar beeped with a message, “On Monday you will being to exhibit greater happiness mental clarity and curiosity.” I had to think a minute before I remembered I set the alarm last fall when my dad did my astrology chart. Recently I asked him...Date Safer with Plerts Check-in Service
Taking a page out of the Foursquare playbook, Plerts allows users to privately tap into their social graph when they need extra peace of mind. You select those individuals beforehand, and they agree to be part of your alerting system. If you are in danger or miss a...What Does Mobile Mean for Online Dating?
Mary (“Queen of the Net”) Meeker at Morgan Stanley thinks the Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet. Bullet point: Virtual goods sales accounted for $2.2 billion worth of the company’s revenue in 2009 and $24 in annual revenue per user. Online...Will Twitter Make Dating Profiles More Dynamic?
This week its all about Twitter, who are hosting Chirp, their developers conference. Last month at SXSW, Twitter CEO Ev Williams announced @anywhere, a new platform that would allow external sites to integrate some key Twitter features (it sounds a lot like Facebook...The Massive Untapped Value Of Personal Ad Photos
Some of you may remember when I spoke at iDate a few years ago and I pointed out Sam Cox of Milabra in the back of the room. Sam sent me this update: The (Milabra) Image Intelligence platform is now producing 1 billion image ratings a month, and we’re able to...How Visa Predicts Divorce
As I have been talking about for quite some time: If you ever doubted the power of the credit card companies, consider this: Visa, the world’s largest credit card network, can predict how likely you are to get a divorce. There’s no consumer-protection legislation for...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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