Last December 2010 I had briefly reviewed Match Japan, because eHarmony plans/planned to launch its Japanese version. There I had discovered the 7 certificates any member can add to its profile in order to increase its reliability.
They are like ID verification and (I think) the employment certificate can perform as a background check if the employer had checked criminal records.
You upload the certificates in JPEG format (fully scanned or photographed) and the Match Team review them. Then they add the certificate seals to your profile (the ones you had uploaded and they were approved by Match Team)
When other dater sees your profile, he/she can request you to disclose those certificates, and if you agree, then you show the scanned certificates (I think that is the way it works)
If any of you can contact Match and ask, it will be great, because I do not understand Japanese, nor I have the Japanese fonts installed in my computer, and the translators Babel Fish or Google Translate can not pass/trespass the subscription screen in Japanese.
Anyway I had created a fake dummy profile of a woman at Match Japan and captured these screenshots. It seems each and every profile is manually approved before you can communicate with other member ("We will confirm within 72 hours of your staff's customer service. Results will email confirmation").
I was also surprised they ask you about your blood type in your profile.
Match Japan also includes Chemistry inside as a compatibility "proprietary personality" matching method.
Match Marbles Limited is an England and Wales Company Number 04791534 UK (VAT number 815337437) The Communications Building, 48 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LR United Kingdom.
Imitation LevelImprovement LevelInnovation LevelThe majority Internet companies launched in Latin America are only copycats, imitations of companies from USA and Europe.MercadoLibre / DeRemate / DeReto, copycats of eBay.
MercadoPago / DineroMail copycats of PayPal.
FotoBlog a copycat of Fotolog.
Bumeran / Laborum, copycats of Monster.
Taringa a copycat of ThePirateBay.
OLX (OnlineExchange) a copycat of CraigsList.
Sonico copycat of MySpace and Facebook.The Simpsons, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, YouTube, Blogger, Wikipedia, Bing, MegaUpload, Twitter are successes in Argentina, so they can not be copycatted.I have the theory that if something is successful in Argentina, it could be a success in the World. If it can NOT be a success here in Argentina, it will definitely NOT be a success in the World.
The Online Dating Industry needs innovation. But innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.Innovations will definitively come from new discoveries on Theories of Romantic Relationships Development.
More Profiles from Argentina and Brazil on POF.
When you try to sign in from Argentina says:
"You are attempting to signup from a country we currently do not accept signups from your current location. We only accept users from Canada, UK, US, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy and Germany"
but see how there are men & women from Argentina and Brazil.
You can search at POF and see by your own!
POF is like the hindenburg zeppelin.
Is there a security hole at PlentyOfFish? When you try to sign in from Argentina says:
"You are attempting to signup from a country we currently do not accept signups from your current location. We only accept users from Canada, UK, US, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy and Germany"
but see how there are women from Argentina.
Or are they only fake profiles, so men can browse profiles from women and see ads, then click some of them and increase POF revenue?
(I use Mozilla Firefox with AdBlockPlus addon)
"Match" Q1 2011 REPORT RESULTS
The IAC was using the word "Match" meaning "Personals: Match + Chemistry + NetClubEncuentro + Udate + PeopleMedia communities + SinglesNet + YahooPersonals + OKCupid".
Now they use "Match Core" and "Match Developing"
Match Core consists of Match in the United States, Chemistry and People Media.
Match Developing consists of OkCupid, Singlesnet, mobile-only products and our international operations. [Asia - Pacific, Africa and rest of Americas, not Europe because IAC had sold its European operations to Meetic.]
Match Core Paid Subscribers: 1,600,000
Match Developing Paid Subscribers: 324,000
Total 1,924,000
"Match revenue benefited from strong growth within its Core and Developing operations.
Core revenue increased 18% to USD 93.3 million driven by a 22% increase in subscribers. Developing revenue increased 82% to USD 18.3 million driven by the full quarter contribution of Singlesnet, as well as from our venture with Meetic in Latin America and the acquisition of OkCupid, neither of which were reflected in the year ago results." page 3
"OTHER ITEMSEquity in losses of unconsolidated affiliates in Q1 2011 reflects losses related to our investment in The Newsweek Daily Beast Company partially offset by income related to our investment in Meetic." (European operations) page 4
