by David Evans | Dating Markets, Online Dating Innovation
Tonight was a beautiful night in Boston so I went to a restaurant overlooking the city on the waterfront here in Charlestown and hung out with new neighborhood friends. I came home and didn’t remember that Speeddate.com was having it’s inaugural event...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets
Samat Mutra had written a five-part series on Web 3.0 & Gannett. Gannett (GCI) publishes 85 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Many moons ago I had a long conversation with Anna Zornosa, head of Yahoo! Personals. Anna, for those of you who don’t know, was CMO at Knight Ridder Digital until November 2005 where she was in charge of crafting digital strategies. Prior to KRD she was the CEO...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups
A developer at SEOmoz built a dating site from concept to launch in 66.5 hours. The first month of being online Mingle2 had around 90,000 unique visitors. By July the site’s popularity exploded, seeing nearly 700,000 uniques and 1.9 million page views for that...
by David Evans | Legal, Profiles & Matching
In case you missed it, the battleground for online dating dominance shifted over the weekend. First, we learned that True.com is most likely delinquent on its advertising payments. As a result True’s ads are increasingly harder to find in the usual places like...