Short film "Offline" (2016) at Cannes focuses on perils of online dating

http://www.franoi.com/film/short-film-at-cannes-focus-on-perils-of-online-dating

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

AshleyMadison sinking ship?

Do not trust / believe article saying "AshleyMadison is back — and claims surprising user numbers"

http://nypost.com/2017/05/21/ashley-madison-is-back-and-claims-surprising-user-numbers/
 
Remember last October 2013:  

Fortress Investments, a New York hedge fund, will loan Avid Life Media USD50M over two years  
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/10/fortress-investments-hedge-fund-invests-50m-in-ashley-madison-.html
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/10/11/wall-street-loves-cheater-238080.html
then Alexa shows The Impact Team was really victorious. 
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ashleymadison.com
It seems no one trust AshleyMadison any more because it seems they STILL use fembots. 
Cheaters will use Tinder instead.  
Soon you will see online dating scam victims hiring hackers and private investigators to fight back bad online dating sites, destroying them from inside, ala AshleyMadison case!   
  
Please see:
AshleyMadison blackmail roars back to life ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/ashleymadison-blackmail-roars-back-to.html


Alexa shows AshleyMadison is a sinking ship.

USA FBI should had closed AshleyMadison forever.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/ashleymadison-turnaround.html

"Find love online with EliteSingles" new TV ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43MIe4RywxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkJOIjovgQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9xj8NR3JI

Old one was "Ditch the Haystack with EliteSingles"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHhQQLLxJ4
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/elitesingles-tv-ad-needle-in-haystack.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-ceo-lifts.html

EliteSingles / eDarling sites are only copycats of eHarmony.
A prospective client will not perceive eDarling / EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.
eHarmony has about 750,000 paid subscribers and 10 million active users, which has been steady for the past five years. 
eHarmony's sites are 3 times bigger in active users and revenue than EliteSingles's sites.
And worse, Affinitas GmbH. can not beat and will never beat eHarmony Inc. in United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and United States.

eHarmony is a 16+ years old obsolete site. The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is only supported by a big marketing budget and not by serious scientific evidence.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony and its copycats, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
Now it is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use it (year 2017) 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/affinitas-gmbh-2015-financials.html
eHarmony refused to acquire the whole of Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling and others) last May 2012. There is a WAR between eHarmony Inc. and Affinitas GmbH. (EliteSingles / eDarling sites, copycats of eHarmony)
http://theheureka.com/end-of-the-affair-germanys-edarling-buys-back-stake-from-eharmony
http://theheureka.com/samwer-brothers-edarling-talk-of-failed-exit-completely-wrong
http://www.gruenderszene.de/news/edarling-eharmony-rueckkauf

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ie
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com.au
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.nz
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.za
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com.mx
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.cl

7ft 7in British actor; the UK's tallest man, dies of heart failure, aged 36 / Please compare with EliteSingles UK and USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/7ft-7in-british-actor-uks-tallest-man.html
 
EliteSingles USA compared to tallest 2 active USA NBA players 221 cm (7 ft 3 in).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/elitesingles-usa-compared-to-tallest-2.html 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/if-elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-creates.html

For 2017, Affinitas GmbH. approached Spark Networks (LOV) for a merger
"Affinitas GmbH's revenue is USD 86 Million LTM, with USD 8 Million EBITDA." ? Unaudited.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/affinitas-gmbhs-revenue-is-usd-86.html
 
Spark Networks (LOV) and EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) to Merge, Creating a Global Leader in Online Dating ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/spark-networks-lov-and-elitesingles.html

Match Group is 10 times bigger than Spark + Affinitas merge.
eHarmony is is 2 or 3 times bigger than Spark + Affinitas merge.


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article: Secret of eHarmony algorithm is ignoring wishes of picky daters
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/article-secret-of-eharmony-algorithm-is.html

AI, former eHarmony's Chief Scientist and PsyML (machine learning and big data)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/ai-former-eharmonys-chief-scientist-and.html

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Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

AI, former eHarmony's Chief Scientist and PsyML (machine learning and big data)

http://www.puromarketing.com/12/28785/como-inteligencia-artificial-quiere-ayudar-marcas-encontrar-influencers.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-galen-buckwalter-04139510
http://psyml.co/about/

PAPER: Improved collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm of similarity measure
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/paper-improved-collaborative-filtering.html

article: Secret of eHarmony algorithm is ignoring wishes of picky daters
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/article-secret-of-eharmony-algorithm-is.html

article: How successful is digital dating in finding ‘The One’?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-how-successful-is-digital.html


PAPER: Twitter User Personality Prediction 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/paper-twitter-user-personality.html

IBM Deciphers Personality Types From 200 Tweets ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/ibm-deciphers-personality-types-from.html

Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.html


Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not notice, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 


Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo

article: Secret of eHarmony algorithm is ignoring wishes of picky daters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/14/secret-eharmony-algorithm-ignoring-wishes-picky-daters/

The relationship questionnaire, says the website, will ‘help us build a comprehensive personality profile of you and work out which of our members you will be deeply compatible with.’
Yet, the secret to eHarmony’s success may actually lie in ignoring the wishes of picky clients.
The Chief Scientist at eHarmony has revealed that although singles are asked to choose likes and dislikes on a sliding scale, unless they pick the extreme ends their answers will be largely ignored.
 https://iai.tv/video/blind-data

Proof eHarmony is intoxicated with "Big Data Analysis"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/proof-eharmony-is-intoxicated-with-big.html

Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html

eHarmony is a 16+ years old obsolete site. The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is only supported by a big marketing budget and not by serious scientific evidence.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony and its copycats, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
Now it is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use it (year 2017) 

The Match team is working on artificial intelligence (AI) and its matching algorithms (since 2011). ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/the-match-team-is-working-on-artificial.html

Another HOAX: Dating app uses machine learning to find your most compatible partner
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/another-hoax-dating-app-uses-machine.html
 
The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"
The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

Chemistry by Dr. Helen Fisher, REDESIGNED

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chemistry.com


New Chemistry site, operated by People Media (Match Group)
it seems it morphed to a more casual site.

Chemistry is part of People Media's MarriageMinded Community, which includes MarriageMindedPeopleMeet. As a member of Chemistry, your profile will automatically be shown throughout the MarriageMinded Community at no additional charge.


Dr. Helen Fisher / article: Has Online Dating Changed the Way We Love Each Other?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/dr-helen-fisher-article-has-online.html

Match to close Chemistry soon ??? PART 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/match-to-close-chemistry-soon-part-2.html

article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html

WE HAVE CHEMISTRY! ??? NOT
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/we-have-chemistry-not.html

Match Group Q1 2017, Revenue flat, ARPU flat, Match in decadence
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/match-group-q1-2017-revenue-flat-arpu.html
The Match team is working on artificial intelligence (AI) and its matching algorithms (since 2011). ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/the-match-team-is-working-on-artificial.html
It seems they plan to resurrect: Synapse, a behavioural recommender system but ...

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/synapse-match-algorithm.html

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

PAPER: Improved collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm of similarity measure

Improved collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm of similarity measure

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
 
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  
 
They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not notice, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 


Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo

Please see also:
PAPER: Twitter User Personality Prediction 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/paper-twitter-user-personality.html
 
People-to-People Reciprocal Recommenders
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/people-to-people-reciprocal-recommenders.html  

A people-to-people content-based reciprocal recommender using hidden markov models
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2507214&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=589669483&CFTOKEN=18383938

How AI can help you find a date ? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/how-ai-can-help-you-find-date.html  
PAPER: Tensor Methods and Recommender Systems
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/paper-tensor-methods-and-recommender.html

Artificial Intelligence to Help You Meet Your Soulmate ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/artificial-intelligence-to-help-you.html