FourSquare Banning Stalking Apps
Updated: 2012-03-31 16:22:16
Home About Archives Contact Media Advertise Newsletter Consulting Online Dating Insider Online Dating Industry Consulting Commentary FourSquare Banning Stalking Apps by David Evans on March 31, 2012 in Mobile Mobile applications that track and make your current location public have proliferated in recent years . Almost all of these efforts have been tied into public Foursquare , and now Facebook , checkins . My favorite has always been Assisted Serendipity which I’ve written about many times There are so may other social versions of these apps , I can’t even keep track of them . Today’s dust-up in the blogosphere is over Girls Around Me What makes Girls Around Me special The fact that it connects Foursquare checkins with Facebook pages and a map , instead of a text list of locations where
, Home About Archives Contact Media Advertise Newsletter Consulting Online Dating Insider Online Dating Industry Consulting Commentary Profile Sellers , The Dating Industry’s Bad Actors by David Evans on March 28, 2012 in Profiles Photo credit : betabeat.com Anyone who’s been on a dating site has seen them . She’s a beautiful girl with poor grammar skills . She wants to talk via her Yahoo email account and within a few emails she’s often asking for money to come visit you . Thats a clear indication of a dating site scammer , and just about everyone who’s ever joined a dating site has experienced a similar . situation The dating industry is finally starting to come around to protecting the safety of their members in a meaningful way , but only after much legal pressure and several waves of
Home About Archives Contact Media Advertise Newsletter Consulting Online Dating Insider Online Dating Industry Consulting Commentary I’m In Like With You founder Becomes Filthy Rich Overnight by David Evans on March 26, 2012 in Dating Industry Finance Once upon a time there was a casual auction-based dating site called I’m in Like With You . The basic premise of the site was to gain points for bidding on people by answering questions . I never really understood the site , and then it went away . But this is not a story about another failed dating site . This is about a guy who last week had 1,700 in his bank account . Today that number is north of 20 . million In an incredible twist of fate , I’m in Like With You’s founder , Charles Forman , is in today’s New York Times Charles founded
Home About Archives Contact Media Advertise Newsletter Consulting Online Dating Insider Online Dating Industry Consulting Commentary ChristianMingle Advisor Steps Into The Spotlight by David Evans on March 26, 2012 in Niche Dating Have you been following the ChristianMingle saga This is great theater and Spark Networks must be loving the free publicity from Leno , Colbert , etc . Especially delicious is the irony that Spark Networks also runs JDate . Oh what a difference some copywriting and a template makes in the world of competitive niche dating From the press release : ChristianMingle’s slogan , Find God’s Match for You , which appears in the site’s national advertising campaign from television commercials to billboards has sparked some controversy . The tagline has been generating a
, Home About Archives Contact Media Advertise Newsletter Consulting Online Dating Insider Online Dating Industry Consulting Commentary Come on Nerve , Turn Me On by David Evans on March 22, 2012 in Dating Sites Living single in a big city like Boston is great . There is never any shortage of people to go out with who are at least close to the type of person you want to date . From bible-thumper hotties to lesbo riott girlz , a decent sized city has got them . all Now that I’m in Vermont , well lets just say I have a newfound appreciation for singles that live out in the middle of nowhere . So this is what its like to have limited inventory” , . wow I went to sign up for Nerve Dating finally and it says that a few major cities are launched . This is all about density , they don’t want to
Home About Archives Contact Media Advertise Newsletter Consulting Online Dating Insider Online Dating Industry Consulting Commentary Dating Site Bloggers Need To Step Up Their Game by David Evans on March 19, 2012 in Marketing Its amazing how many dating sites don’t take the time to write a blog or post up social media content . For all the grief I give HowAboutWe on the premise of their business model , their blog kicks the cr p out of just about every other dating site blog I don’t spent every waking day looking at dating site blogs , and I’m sure I’m missing some great ones HowAboutWe is all about the under-30 35 crowd , and the blog accurately reflects the reading habits of this demographic , for the most part at least . I’m jaded because after reading the same Valentine’s Day polls
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