The online dating site OKCupid has a blog where they post analyses of the tons of data they collect, and it's really fascinating. For instance the attractiveness of woman on OKCupid, as judged by the men on OKCupid, is a symmetrical bell curve. In other words, half the women are better-than-medium looking and half are worse-than-medium looking. But OKCupid's women rate 80% of OKCupid's guys as worse-than-medium...
Getting online daters to stray out of their comfort zones and search for new people has always been a problem for dating sites. Usually, search is a set it and forget it situation, where users set their initial search criteria and then leave it like that forever. You see the same people, over and over [...] Related posts: Cancelling eHarmony Subscription OKcupid in INC Magazine Are Friendfinder emails...
Two fascinating articles ( Brooks , who points to Yang ) on how how technology has so fundamentally changed the ways we seek both one time and long term partners. I've tried the Grindr iPhone App described below by Yang (its GPS feature doesn't work worth diddly... it told me a handsome guy was 2,000 ft. away, and after we began to set up a meeting, he turned out to be in Iowa!). It is clear, as noted...
Construction disaster mess in our hood this morning. # @OpenTable Woop! Do I get the bug find gold star? # A co-worker just reminded me of the awesomeness of the okcupid blog and their analyses - http://blog.okcupid.com/ # Awful traffic when it rains or has rained. Pain in the ass. # Why do we think police officers can direct [...]
This week in slightly depressing confirmations that the online world is not so unlike the offline one: dating site OKCupid tracked the behavior of nearly 1 million users and found that race is correlated with whether people reply. “Despite what you might’ve heard from the Obama campaign and organic cereal commercials, racism is alive and well,” wrote OKCupid’s Christian Rudder....
Over at Credit.com I have a post about online matchmaker OKCupid's blog, which analyzes the messages its members send to each other and generates interesting charts and graphs from the data. The OKCupid blog crunches data collected from millions of messages sent back and forth between its subscribers and reveals what kinds of messages and terms result in the most responses (along with the ones that...
According to a recent study conducted by dating website OKCupid , "Black women are sweethearts... white men are sh*tty," and white people in general are a horrible bunch of xenophobes. The company recently ran some numbers on response rates for messages sent between almost a million otherwise compatible men and women of varying races, and the results are eye-opening. "Whenever we compare...
If you haven’t read it, OKCupid’s Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message, should be required reading for every online dater, regardless of which sites they are on. It should be a must-read for every dating coach or profile writer out there. OkCupid is really hitting their stride with their analysis of [...] Related posts: Focusing on niche sites Symmetricity in compatibility...
I spoke with a fascinating dating startup on Friday. They are looking for developers in Boston or New York who have experience building dating sites from the ground up. They also need a CTO-type to get things moving and keep things on track during critical stages of development process. This could be anything from freelancing engineers [...] Related posts: Focusing on niche sites OkCupid False Alarm,...
Markus at Plentyoffish let me know about his post today, Worlds top dating sites for August from comscore. I’ve stopped using paid dating sites for a few months to gauge firsthand how effective free dating sites are. Basically I’ve been on Facebook dating apps, Plentyoffish and OKCupid. Someone asked me about mobile apps recently. I personaly [...] Related posts: Plentyoffish Offering Paid...
OPW INTERVIEW - Sep 21 - Sam Yagan is CEO/Founder of OkCupid.com. Here’s the story of how he started OkCupid, and CrazyBlindDate.com. - Mark Brooks Listen to the interview Sam, you have a history of starting renegade companies. What services that you’ve created in the past are you most proud of? I started 3 companies in the last 10 years. In each case, I was passionate about bringing a...
God may love you, but the rest of the world isn't so keen. According to US dating website OKCupid, atheists have a better chance of a positive response to their postings than their more devout compatriots.
Fuego Nation launched its social network in a direct challenge to sites such as Facebook in January. Billed as a next-generation social network, it focused on rich media and a cool, carousel-like user interface. It drew some intense interest from a small number of people, but it didn’t spread as anticipated, acknowledged Brogan Keane, chief executive of the company. Now he’s relaunching...
Check out where online dating is positioned on Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions. Original OKCupid article: How To Get People To Reply To Your Messages In Online Dating, Part I. Whitney Casey from Match.com talks about polishing your online dating profile. Winning profile pictures are discussed. Hint, no photos with guns and crop-outs are a cop out. Last [...] Related posts: Focusing on niche sites...
Twitter-like Dating, Brevity’s the Best Opener- OKCupid is doing a great job sharing what they are learning about how people interact on the site. Turns out that the ideal message length from men to women is between 200-300 characters and from women to men it’s a mere 50 characters. I love the transparency, and OKCupid [...] Related posts: Matchmaker training game Online Dating Industry...
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