PAPER Improving Performance of Movie Recommendation in Collaborative Filtering Systems

http://www.aicit.org/RNIS/ppl/RNIS270PPL.pdf

Abstract
Collaborative filtering has been most widely used in commercial sites to recommend items based on the history of user preferences for items. The idea behind this method is to find similar users whose ratings for items are incorporated to make recommendation. Hence, similarity calculation is most critical in recommendation performance. For movie recommendation, this paper enhances performance of previous similarity measures by incorporating information on genre difference as well as the number of movies co-rated by two users. Extensive experiment results are provided to demonstrate far enhanced performance improvement for several popular classic CF methods.
Keywords: Similarity measure, Web personalization, Collaborative filtering, Recommender system

Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined. 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 5 to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
The BIG 5 (Big Five) normative personality test is obsolete. The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification. Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the BIG 5 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. I calculate similarity in personality patterns with (a proprietary) pattern recognition by correlation method. It takes into account the score and the trend to score of any pattern. Also it takes into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed 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".
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/paper-collaborative-filtering-for.html
If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

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
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

Please read also
An exercise of similarity.
How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity.
STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD.
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5.
ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION.
Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times.
Why your brain distorts!

Disrupters bring destruction and opportunity.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b9677026-8b6d-11e4-ae73-00144feabdc0.html#slide0

article at Financial Times.
It mentions Tinder, but .... Tinder is destroying the Match Group from inside, cannibalizing the Match Group's other online dating sites. Recently Badoo backed Bumble in order to destroy Tinder.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/meetme-as-dying-whale.html

If eHarmony decided not to launch Elevated Careers?

Project Aborted?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-internal-memo-does-not-say-that.html

https://www.zoho.com/recruit/blog/finding-eharmony-between-candidates-and-companies.html

Please remember:
eHarmony, is a 14 years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.

The Big Five normative test that had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony 
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever. 

Big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/big-data-analytics-heroes-from-eharmony.html

The 10 Most Interesting Dating Studies Of 2014?

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-interesting-dating-studies-of-2014-2014-12

Please remember:
"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals:
- Search ("You can search for the person you want, but most probably that person does not exist or does not want to meet you because you are not compatible with him/her.")
- Matching based on Self-Reported Data
- Bidirectional Recommendation Engines / Compatibility Matching Algorithms. 
Experience had shown serious daters never use social networking sites/applications for dating purposes and online daters belong to 3, 4, 5 or 6 online dating sites at the same time.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/facebook-is-not-primed-to-disrupt.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%). In the same range as searching by your own.
The Online Dating Industry needs a major cataclysm to extinguish the big, old and obsolete dinosaurs.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/internet-trends-report-2014-from-kpcb.html

Please read: Why Online Dating Is Dying and Why It's a Good Thing! 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/article-why-online-dating-is-dying-and.html

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

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-data-dating-is-not-key-to-long.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/using-technology-and-psychology-to-make.html

The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/paper-dyadic-relationship-values-in.html

PAPER Collaborative filtering for people-to-people recommendation in online dating: data analysis and user trial

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581914001669?

Abstract: 
A common perception is that online dating systems “match” people on the basis of profiles containing demographic and psychographic information and/or user interests. In contrast, product recommender systems are typically based on collaborative filtering, suggesting purchases not based on “content” but on the purchases of “similar” users. In this paper, we study collaborative filtering for people-to-people recommendation in online dating, comparing this approach to a baseline profile matching method. Initial data analysis highlights the problem of over-recommending popular users, a standard problem for collaborative filtering applied to product recommendation, but more acute in people-to-people recommendation. We address this problem with a two-stage recommender process that employs a Decision Tree derived from interactions data as a “critic” to re-rank candidates generated by collaborative filtering. Our baseline profile matching method dynamically chooses, for each user, attributes that contribute most significantly to successful interactions with candidates having the best matching attribute value. The key evaluation metric is success rate improvement, the increase in the chance of a user having a successful interaction when acting on recommendations. Our methods were first evaluated on historical data from a large online dating site and then trialled live over a 9 week period providing recommendations via e-mail to a large number of users. The trial confirmed the consistency of the analysis on historical data and the ability of our collaborative filtering method to generate suitable candidates over an extended period. Moreover, the collaborative filtering method gives a higher success rate improvement than profile matching.


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/paper-evaluation-and-deployment-of.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/09/are-there-any-use-cases-of-social.html

--------------------------------------
 Please remember:
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)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/paper-investigation-and-application-of.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/new-papers-recommender-systems.html

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. 
Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined. 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 5 to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
The BIG 5 (Big Five) normative personality test is obsolete. The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification. Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the BIG 5 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. I calculate similarity in personality patterns with (a proprietary) pattern recognition by correlation method. It takes into account the score and the trend to score of any pattern. Also it takes into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed 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".

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

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
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

Please read also
An exercise of similarity.
How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity.
STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD.
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5.
ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION.
Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times.
Why your brain distorts!

Worldwide retail sales to top USD22 trillion in 2014, but ...

Surprisingly, less than 6% of total sales will be made online

http://vator.tv/news/2014-12-23-worldwide-retail-sales-to-top-22-trillion-in-2014

They will prefer to research online and then buy offline.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/rocket-internet-ag-half1-2014.html

Nine online dating predictions for 2015 from Zoosk?

9 online dating predictions for 2015 from Zoosk that failed its IPO
http://mashable.com/2014/12/22/online-dating-2015/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/zoosk-update-new-ipo-plan.html

BIG DATA DATING is not the key to long-lasting romance.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/big-data-use-cases-at-plenty-of-fish.html

Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient.
It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!
http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.

PAPER: Assessing six factors in Spain

Assessing six factors in Spain: Validation of the HEXACO-100 in relation to the Five Factor Model and other conceptually relevant criteria

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914007053?


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-six-statt-big-five-das-hexaco.html

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.

Please remember:
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)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/paper-investigation-and-application-of.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/new-papers-recommender-systems.html

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. 
Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined. 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 5 to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
The BIG 5 (Big Five) normative personality test is obsolete. The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification. Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the BIG 5 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. I calculate similarity in personality patterns with (a proprietary) pattern recognition by correlation method. It takes into account the score and the trend to score of any pattern. Also it takes into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed 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".

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

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
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.
 
Please read also
An exercise of similarity.
How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity. 
STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD.
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5.
ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION.
Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times.
Why your brain distorts!

Some financials from Rocket Internet AG.

data obtained from:
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
then search for
Rocket Internet
and open the files:

Rocket Internet AG (vormals: Rocket Internet GmbH)

Rechnungslegung/Finanzberichte
Konzernabschluss zum Geschäftsjahr vom 01.01.2013 bis zum 31.12.2013
09.12.2014
Accounting / Financial Reports
Consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year from 01.01.2013 until 31.12.2013
12/09/2014


Rechnungslegung/Finanzberichte
Jahresabschluss zum Geschäftsjahr vom 01.01.2013 bis zum 31.12.2013
08.12.2014
Accounting / Financial Reports
Financial statements for fiscal year from 01.01.2013 until 31.12.2013
12/08/2014

Rocket Internet AG. / All ventures are created using a complex system of shell companies. /
Jade, Juwel, Brillant, Bambino, Platin and others.
See Jade 1076. GmbH. and Jade 1085. GmbH. as sample
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/rocket-internet-ag-all-ventures-are.html
Secret papers: How the Samwer bros. woo investors.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html
Some analysis and comments about "Frontal21-Doku: Die große Samwer-Show"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/some-analysis-and-comments-about.html
Rocket Internet AG. Q2 2014 financials via AB Kinnevik
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/rocket-internet-ag-q2-2014-financials.html

Global Dating Insights 2014 Industry Survey

Hot Summer 2015 will begin soon in South America. 

Global Dating Insights sent an email 2014 Industry Survey

What will 2014 be remembered for in the dating industry?
 Fake profiles discovered in many Online Dating Sites.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/meetme-as-dying-whale.html

What were the biggest talking points and issues of the year?
 Lack of Innovation and Decadence.

What was the most important thing you learned in 2014?
 Big companies like Match or eHarmony do not want to innovate.

What trends do you think we’ll see in 2015?
Legislation in some countries. Identity Verification as a "must have" for any serious Online Dating site.

How can the dating industry improve in 2015?
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!


Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (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.

Social dating is vaporware. Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

Zoosk UPDATE. New IPO plan.

Investors are desperate to recover their money from unprofitable Zoosk (ZSK). They use management team's executives as puppets.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/zoosk-ipo-founders-kelly-steckelberg/
http://globaldatinginsights.com/18122014-zoosk-founders-step-down-as-they-shelve-ipo-plan/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/zoosk-to-run-out-of-money-soon-zoosk.html

Compare to
Cupid
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-30377233
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/cupid-plc-game-over.html
MeetMe
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/meetme-as-dying-whale.html
and MOMO
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/something-wrong-or-strange-with-momo.html

Domain Laundering Emerges as Significant Threat in Digital Ad Ecosystem

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/Domain-Laundering-Emerges-as-Significant-Threat-in-Digital-Ad-Ecosystem

Terra Numerata! suspicious situation?

The Start of a European Digital Valley: Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Lays the Foundations for a Digital Business Platform in Europe - Terra Numerata™

Qué? What the hell?

http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/roland-berger-rocket-internet-super-inkubator

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-start-of-a-european-digital-valley-roland-berger-strategy-consultants-lays-the-foundations-for-a-digital-business-platform-in-europe---terra-numerata-285966751.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/rocket-internet-ag-2014-milestones.html

A case of identity theft at Match USA.

Former Miss New York wants Match USA site to give her information on person impersonating her on dating website

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-miss-ny-person-pic-match-article-1.2043091

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/websites/idtheft.html
All online dating sites should conduct Identity Verification to each and every of their members, free and paid ones.

Compare to the former big lawsuit.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/the-2nd-update-match-big-lawsuit-2014.html

Another rubbish patent for the Online Dating Industry

Title: ONLINE DATING DANGER PREVENTION SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:  United States Patent Application 20140365528 Kind Code: A1
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0365528.html

Please read also:
A patent issue from 2007 ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/a-patent-issue-from-2007.html

The Terrible Cost Of Patents
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/terrible-cost-of-patents.html

Something wrong or strange with MOMO.

Can not understand how an unprofitable Chinese online dating application backed and managed by Alibaba (BABA) achieved its IPO in USA and it is valued over USD3 Billion?

USD3 Billion is over 3 times the Match Group's revenue !
and the Match Group is profitable.

http://globaldatinginsights.com/12122014-chinese-messaging-app-momo-raises-216m-in-ipo-valued-at-3bn/
I had always suspected both Alibaba and MOMO are backed and managed by Chinese Army. Those Jack Ma and Tang Yan seem to be puppets of someone else.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/unprofitable-chinese-dating-app-momo.html

Rocket Internet AG. 2014 Milestones.

http://www.samwer-watchblog.de/unternehmen/163-infografik-rocket-internet-2014.html

http://www.samwer-watchblog.de/images/Infografiken/RocketInternet_2014.png

For me it seems only a big Ponzi scheme, a big bubble full of dark smoke. I suspect no one of those companies are designed to be profitable ever. They have big losses because they sell below cost to gain traction. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

Rocket Internet AG. Half1 2014 financials; they are losers, NOT proven winners

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/rocket-internet-ag-half1-2014.html

MeetMe as a dying whale

MeetMe as a dying whale, article at Seeking Alpha
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2751105-meetme-id-rather-not?uide=8032171

I agree with that article. MeetMe is a dying whale and its Management Team can not innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/two-articles-about-meetme-at-sa.html

Recently Chinese Momo achieved its IPO backed by Alibaba.
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2112125-chinese-chat-app-momo-files-for-ipo-alibaba-a-major-investor
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/unprofitable-chinese-dating-app-momo.html
Badoo backed Bumble in order to try to destroy Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/bumble-by-badoo-in-war-with-tinder.html

Happn received USD8Million and Hinge USD12Million as venture capital injections.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/more-stupid-investors-series-hinge-and.html
Zoosk failed with its IPO.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/zoosk-ipo-offering-price-is-everything.html
Badoo also in decadence.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/hotornot-returns-like-living-dead.html


Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (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.

Social dating is vaporware. Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

Channel 4 Documentary ‘The Love Project’ renamed ‘Love At First Swipe’ ???

http://globaldatinginsights.com/12122014-channel-4-documentary-love-at-first-swipe-coming-to-british-tv/

Remenber: Channel 4 Documentary ‘The Love Project’
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/channel-4-documentary-love-project.html

More Stupid Investors' series Hinge and Happn.

Hinge
http://globaldatinginsights.com/11122014-hinge-raises-further-12m-to-take-on-tinder/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/matchmaking-app-hinge-attracts.html

Happn
http://globaldatinginsights.com/11122014-happn-raises-8m-for-worldwide-expansion/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/happn-dating-app-powered-by-real-life.html


Please read also:
Two articles about MeetMe at SA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/two-articles-about-meetme-at-sa.html

Bumble by Badoo in war with Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/bumble-by-badoo-in-war-with-tinder.html


Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (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.

Social dating is vaporware. Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

Two articles about MeetMe at SA

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2746485-why-you-should-buy-meetme
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2747115-update-meetme-launches-sale-of-digital-stickers-i-expect-a-great-q4
A reader from Seeking Alpha wrote
"There are 2 VERY real problems for MeetMe in my opinion.

1. Tinder- Tinder is the dating app that Millenials flock to via FB. It is a widely accepted app among the Millenials and quantifying how much money it will cost to change their behavior pattern, is a scary proposition at this point. So MeetMe's CAC is going to be hugely important in the future .

2. After the latest update, the Apps "Star Ratings" were quite terrible. Most users noting many fake profiles, tons of spam and working girl profiles. MeetMe's social media team had not responded to any of the complaints on the Google Play store, that I have seen to date.

Given the numerous poor reviews and lack of response, why would anyone back an app with such a terrible process in place for the consumer?"

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/fresh-article-about-meetme-at-seeking.html

MEETME Q3 2014 Financial Highlights
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/meetme-q3-2014-financial-highlights.html

Bumble by Badoo in war with Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/bumble-by-badoo-in-war-with-tinder.html

Cupid PLC GAME OVER?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/cupid-plc-game-over.html

Social dating is vaporware. Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters) 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

Uber GAME OVER in Spain?

Judge Shuts Down Uber In Spain, Pending Taxi Association Court Action
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/09/judge-shuts-down-uber-in-spain-pending-taxi-association-court-action/

Please see:
Incredible! Uber raises ANOTHER USD1.2 billion round!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/incredible-uber-raises-another-usd12.html

and wants more!

Uber is already looking for its next USD1 billion!
The company, which has raised nearly USD2.5 billion this year, is said to be selling convertible debt.
http://vator.tv/news/2014-12-05-uber-is-already-looking-for-its-next-1-billion

Bumble by Badoo in war with Tinder

http://globaldatinginsights.com/09122014-badoo-founder-is-backing-tinder-rival-bumble/

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-09/forced-out-of-tinder-former-exec-creates-a-lesscreepy-dating-app

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/about-bumble-it-is-exactly-like-tinder.html

Badoo is under fraud investigation in many countries where it operates and suspected to be responsible of several hacking incidents suffered by eHarmony, Match, Sonico, PlentyOfFish and others.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/as-usual-eharmony-hacked-again.html

STUDIE Machen diese Eigenschaften gute Gründer aus?

Characteristics of good entrepreneurs.
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/gruender-eigenschaften

http://www.massinescheffer.com

http://personalityexperts.de/2011/01/13/visual-questionnaire-viq/

Instead of the Visual Questionnaire based on the MBTI, those researchers should use the 16PF normative test!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/a-model-for-university-entrepreneurs.html
eHarmony plans to launch Elevated Careers soon, and it will be another HOAX!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/coffee-app-its-linkedin-meets-tinder.html

See as sample these papers:
- The Entrepreneur's General Personality Traits and Technological Developments
http://waset.org/publications/15120/the-entrepreneur-s-general-personality-traits-and-technological-developments
- Which Big-Five personality traits drive entrepreneurial failure in highly innovative industries?
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS: A BEHAVIORAL GENETICS PERSPECTIVE
- Entrepreneurial tendencies of aspiring human resources in India: a multivariate analysis 
- Creativity among entrepreneurship students: comparing engineering and business education


Moreover prospective entrepreneurs score different from prospective managers / businessmen / businesswomen.
Prospective entrepreneurs mostly score VERY LOW in some specific variables I and M and VERY HIGH in E, Q1 and Q2, like this 16PF5 personality pattern
A:5.B:8.C:7.E:10.F:3.G:8.H:8.I:2.L:7.M:2.N:5.O:5.Q1:10.Q2:9.Q3:5.Q4:4"

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.