EasyTaxi Argentina and YepDoc Brazil

It seems some Internet business ventures could be regulated by law and others could be forbidden by law.

YepDoc Brazil (copycat of ZocDoc USA) scheduling service and medical/clinical records online seems it was forbidden by law. Who knows?
http://saudeweb.com.br/36812/yepdoc-oferece-prontuario-online-para-medicos/
http://saudeweb.com.br/35401/yepdoc-quer-melhorar-desempenho-dos-consultorios/
https://twitter.com/YepDocBR
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yepdoc.com.br


Not sure what really happened with DropGifts
https://twitter.com/dropgifts
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/19/rocket-internet-backed-social-gifting-startup-dropgifts-takes-the-b2b-route-to-the-us
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropgifts
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dropgifts.com

EasyTaxi Argentina could be or is going to be regulated by law and will be an inviable business model, like SaferTaxi
http://blog.safertaxi.com/2013/02/el-gcba-obliga-a-safertaxi-a-cobrar-un-adicional/

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1670281-easy-taxi-una-aplicacion-que-llama-un-auto-con-solo-apretar-un-boton
Just read a new article about EasyTaxi in Argentina (Diario La Nación)
I do not think women will like the EasyTaxi application sending their cell phone /  smartphone numbers to the taxi driver or taxi driver will not desire to pay any commission to both the agency they work and to EasyTaxi or SaferTaxi at the same time.
The article says: "Así, verá en su pantalla el nombre completo del conductor, foto, número de celular, modelo del auto y patente. Además, puede seguir en tiempo real el recorrido que el taxi hace hasta el domicilio desde el cual se pidió el servicio. También el taxista recibirá los datos del usuario, como su nombre y número de teléfono. ."

This article talks about " startup losses of under €250 Million for their first three years of operation."
http://venturevillage.eu/rocket-internet-millicom

Please see by your own Rocket Internet Ventures in Brazil
ClickBus   http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/clickbus.com.br
Dafiti http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.br
CupoNation http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cuponation.com.br
Airu http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/airu.com.br
HelloFood http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hellofood.com.br  (called FoodPanda in other countries)
EasyTaxi http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/easytaxi.com operating also in several countries
Kanui http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kanui.com.br
Tricae  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tricae.com.br
Mobly http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mobly.com.br
PayLeven http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/payleven.com.br
ZocPrint http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/zocprint.com.br
WestWing http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westwing.com.br
Wimdu http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wimdu.com.br
21diamonds http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/21diamonds.com.br
BlueCircle http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bluecircle.com.br
GlossyBox, closed last year.  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/glossybox.com.br
YepDoc ( closed? ) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yepdoc.com.br
DropGifts ( closed? ) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dropgifts.com.br 

Who is paying all that fest? AB Kinnevik ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/about-kinneviks-holdings.html

One Journalist said, last November 2013 when I told her about "Glossybox .... some international branches shut down" :
" I don't know if the site stats tell the whole story but I am not surprised to hear that some businesses in the Rocket empire are not flourishing. "
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/glossybox-some-international-branches.html
other Journalist asked me about: "Start-up companies in general aren't profitable but hope to be at one stage."
I replied: That is exactly the problem. Their start-up companies are not designed to be profitable, and as they are copycats of U.S. companies, the main purpose is to be sold to the original company they had copycatted.
They always make unrealistic projections of sales: "For the Brazilian Amazon clone Linio the Samwers offer a return of 12 percent in 2017. The Amazon model generates 1.1 percent."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html
I suspect no one of the cloned companies by Samwer Bros. are really profitable or sustainable for the next 5 years, to until 2019 at least; and as they will not be able to sell to the original company they had copycatted, as they failed to sell Affinitas GmbH. to eHarmony Inc. last March 2012 and as the Management Team can not innovate in nothing because they are not entrepreneurs, they will collapse. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

Partnerbörsen im Clinch (January 2012)

Alexander Hüsing from Deutsche-Startups had published the article
Partnerbörsen im Clinch: eDarling gegen ElitePartner und Partnersuche
last January 2012, more then 2 years ago, but it is interesting to read the comments of that article.
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2012/01/09/clinch-edarling-elitepartner-partnersuche/
Also to read reviews of eDarling German version at CIAO
http://www.ciao.de/Erfahrungsberichte/eDarling_de__8236459/SortOrder/2

Please see:
I recommend a complete independent audit in Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/i-recommend-complete-independent-audit.html
Some forums with comments saying fake profiles at eDarling Spain
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/some-forums-with-comments-saying-fake.html
Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling / EliteSingles / PrestigeSingles / EliteRencontre ) in a 5th year itch ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/affinitas-gmbh-edarling-elitesingles.html

PAPER: The HEXACO Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Emotionality Factors A Review of Research and Theory

http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/25/1088868314523838.abstract

The HEXACO Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Emotionality Factors A Review of Research and Theory

Abstract

We review research and theory on the HEXACO personality dimensions of Honesty-Humility (H), Agreeableness (A), and Emotionality (E), with particular attention to the following topics: (1) the origins of the HEXACO model in lexical studies of personality structure, and the content of the H, A, and E factors in those studies; (2) the operationalization of the H, A, and E factors in the HEXACO Personality Inventory–Revised; (3) the construct validity of self-reports on scales measuring the H factor; (4) the theoretical distinction between H and A; (5) similarity and assumed similarity between social partners in personality, with a focus on H and A; (6) the extent to which H (and A and E) variance is represented in instruments assessing the “Five-Factor Model” of personality; and (7) the relative validity of scales assessing the HEXACO and Five-Factor Model dimensions in predicting criteria conceptually relevant to H, A, and E.

Recent evidence from lexical studies of personality structure confirms that a common set of six—and not more than six—dimensions is recovered across diverse languages. The HEXACO model of personality structure is based on these six lexical dimensions, and operationalizations of the HEXACO factors correspond closely to the lexical factors.
Given that lexical research forms the ultimate basis of the Big Five and even of the FFM, the finding of six rather than only five replicable dimensions suggests that the widespread adoption of five-dimensional personality models was premature.
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The BIG5 normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago. The BIG5 is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/big5-normative-personality-test-is.html
Please remember:
Academics began to publish Scientific Research using the HEXACO model of personality and they plan to discontinue the Big 5 model (a.k.a. Big Five or FFI five factor inventory) soon; because Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. 
I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an incomplete model of personality. They are assessing 5 scales and not 6 scales.

PAPER: A sixth personality domain that is independent of the Big Five domains:

The psychometric properties of the HEXACO Personality Inventory in a Japanese sample
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpr.12045/abstract

Abstract

We investigated the reliability of the HEXACO-Personality Inventory (HEXACO-PI) using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) Big Five scales in a Japanese sample of 492 respondents (mean age = 20.4 years). The psychometric properties of the HEXACO-PI were examined and found to be satisfactory. The results of the factor analysis showed that the six hypothesized personality domains were found independently. A total of 307 participants responded to the NEO-FFI and the IPIP Big Five scales. The results showed that the five domains of the HEXACO model corresponded to the Five-Factor domains and were relative to the Big Five personality domains as a whole, but the sixth domain, Honesty-Humility, showed weak to moderate correlations with some factors of the NEO-FFI and the IPIP Big Five scales. These results suggest that the Honesty-Humility domain is independent of the five fundamental personality factors and that the HEXACO-PI is a useful and reliable questionnaire for investigating personality structure in cross-cultural and other context.


It appeared that the issue of the fundamental personality dimensions was decided by the Five-Factor (or the Big Five) model, but since 2000 a number of lexical investigations in various languages have shown that six factors repeatedly emerge (Ashton et al., 2004) as dimensions of personality. The six-factor “HEXACO” model consists of five dimensions that are similar to those in the Five-Factor Model, with an additional “Honesty-Humility” dimension. This sixth factor measures individual differences in peoples' sincerity, fairness, greed avoidance, and modesty that are not accounted for by the Big Five/Five Factor questionnaires. ............ The name HEXACO derives from the initials of the six domains, Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), eXtraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O).

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Lee and Ashton (2008) reported that a similar six-factor structure was found in twelve independent lexical studies of personality structure based on the results of rating an extensive number of adjectives that describe personality traits in the following languages: Croatian, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian (in Rome and Trieste), Korean, Polish, and Turkish.
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As Ashton and Lee (2007) demonstrated, the HEXACO factors of Emotionality and Agreeableness are not identical to the similarly named factors in the Big Five model. Specifically, HEXACO Agreeableness hypothetically shows positive correlations with Emotional Stability and Agreeableness of the Big Five, and HEXACO Emotionality is expected to show a negative correlation with Emotional Stability and a positive correlation with Agreeableness of the Big Five (Ashton & Lee, 2007).
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Please remember:
Academics began to publish Scientific Research using the HEXACO model of personality and they plan to discontinue the Big 5 model (a.k.a. Big Five or FFI five factor inventory) soon; because Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. 
I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an incomplete model of personality. They are assessing 5 scales and not 6 scales.

Plenty Of Upside As Tinder Approaches 1B Daily Profile Views ???

Article at Seeking Alpha
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2071653-iac-interactivecorp-plenty-of-upside-as-tinder-approaches-1b-daily-profile-views

---------------- but Will Tinder collapse like Skout ?

 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/will-tinder-collapse-like-skout.html

As a divorce from IAC, will Tinder collapse like Skout ?
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/skout.com
It seems there is a divorce between Tinder and Match.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/match-vs-tinder-or-tinder-vs-match.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/iacinteractivecorps-management.html

Please read:
Tinder Under Fire Over Young Teen Users
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/02/tinder-under-fire-over-young-teen-users.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/skoutcom/
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/27022014-more-concerns-over-under-18-hook-up-app-use/

About Skout case with minors/teens.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/about-skout-case-with-minorsteens.html

PAPER: Exploring the Relationship Between Honesty-Humility,

the Big Five, and Liberal Values in Swedish Students

http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/672/568


Abstract

Previous research on the Five-Factor model (Big Five) reports a relationship between personality traits and liberal values, and the trait Agreeableness has demonstrated the strongest relationship. The HEXACO model offers a complement to the Five-factor model with an additional sixth trait of Honesty-Humility. Previous research on the Honesty-Humility trait has reported mixed results with liberal values, and this study set out to resolve this. The work presented here explored the relationship between the Honesty-Humility trait on facet-level (Sincerity, Fairness, Greed-avoidance and Modesty) and liberal values (equality for women, minorities, and socio-economical groups). Data from Swedish students (N = 202), known for their individualistic and liberal mindset, were sampled. There was an overall positive correlation between Honesty-Humility and the strength of liberal values (r = .36), and Honesty-Humility predicted liberal values beyond Agreeableness. We discuss these results in terms of the significance of traits and values in a culture that promotes both individualism and equality.
"Exploring the Relationship Between Honesty-Humility, the Big Five, and Liberal Values in Swedish Students "

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Please remember:
Academics began to publish Scientific Research using the HEXACO model of personality and they plan to discontinue the Big 5 model (a.k.a. Big Five or FFI five factor inventory) soon; because Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. 
I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an incomplete model of personality. They are assessing 5 scales and not 6 scales.

PAPER: How do personality traits affect communication among users in online social networks?

Abstract:   
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/264/2014/00000038/00000001/art00008
Purpose – The purpose of this work is to analyse the relationships between the personality traits of linked users in online social networks. First the authors tried to discover relation patterns between personality dimensions in conversations. They also wanted to verify some hypotheses: whether users' personality is stable throughout different conversation threads and whether the similarity-attraction paradigm can be verified in this context. We used the Five Factor model of personality or Big Five, which has been widely studied in psychology.

Design/methodology/approach – One of the approaches to detect users' personalities is by analysing the language they use when they talk to others. Based on this assumption the authors computed users' personality from the conversations extracted from the MySpace social network. Then the authors analysed the relationships among personality traits of users to discover patterns.

Findings – The authors found that there are patterns between some personality dimensions in conversation threads, for example, agreeable people tend to communicate with extroverted people. They confirmed that the personality stability theory can be verified in social networks. Finally the authors could verify the similarity-attraction paradigm for some values of personality traits, such as extroversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience.

Originality/value – The results the authors found provide some clues about how people communicate within online social networks, particularly who they tend to communicate with depending on their personality. The discovered patterns can be used in a wide range of applications, such as suggesting contacts in online social networks. Although some studies have been made regarding the role of personality in social media, no similar analysis has been done to evaluate how users communicate in social media considering their personality.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/about-new-markup-language-called.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/more-about-personalityml-new-markup.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/personality-miner-and-personality.html
Not sure if the distribution of fig. 1 could be normal or log-normal. I had suggested several times to online dating sites to show compatibility distribution curves, like
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/11/personality-distribution-curves-using.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/05/compatibility-distribution-curves.html



Please read also:
PAPER Predicting User Personality by Mining Social Interactions in Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/paper-predicting-user-personality-by.html

paper: Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/featured-paper-personality-and-patterns.html

PAPER "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-private-traits-and-attributes-are.html

"The Twitter Me Is Not The Real Me"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/05/twitter-me-is-not-real-me.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. They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity. In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to .......... compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry since years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five (a.k.a. Five Factor, BIG 5 or OCEAN model) to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
The Big Five normative personality test is obsolete, it has been proven as an incomplete and incorrect model of personality.
The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification.  
Online Dating sites OFFERING COMPATIBILITY MATCHING METHODS BASED ON PERSONALITY SIMILARITY 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.
The same applies for Personality Based Recommender Systems. Please see: "How to calculate personality similarity between users" Short answer: the key is the ENSEMBLE!
(the whole set of different valid possibilities)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/how-to-calculate-personality-similarity.html

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 or 15FQ+ test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/ibm-deciphers-personality-types-from.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/new-tutorial-from-essir-2013.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html