Photos from iDate Beverly Hills 2014 conference

http://www.idate2014.com/eventphotos-la-2014.php
http://img.idate2014.com/2014/LA/800/professor-jonathan-rich-of-california-southern-university-presenting-at-idate-2014-la-on-dating-algorithms-for-couple-compatibility-17.jpg

As for Dating Algorithms For Couple Compatibility:
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

Please read also:
They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/about-idate-beverly-hills-2014.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/they-do-not-want-to-innovate.html

C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html
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.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/EliteSingles/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).

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 correlation with 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. 
 

Online Dating Insider live again!

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2014/06/dating-industry-update/

Is the IAC going to pay a bribery to some VC investors from HowAboutWe?

From
OPW and Crunchbase
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/iac-to-acquire-howaboutwe.html
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/howaboutwe

HowAboutWe received over USD22 Million as venture capital.
A comment at OPW from
 "
Jeff R said...

Lets be honest - they agreed to pay the bills, take over the business and hire 5 people...not exactly an

"acquisition"
"

Do you remember
the SmartDate
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/11/smartdate-employees-stiffed-vc-rails-against-ceo.html
and
LikeIt
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/04/likeit-to-close-down-tomorrow.html
cases?


How much had the IAC paid for 10% of Tinder?
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/04/iac-to-buy-tinder-shares-5-billion-valuation.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html
and

How much does the IAC plan to pay for HowAboutWe?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-iac-nasdaq-iaci-to-acquire.html
It seems VC investors agreed to show a big success, and no more failures.
They should show HowAboutWe as successfully sold to IAC, not closed as SmartDate or LikeIt!

Every time the IAC acquires a big online dating site, it is like if they were paying a bribery to the VC investor who had previously invested in that big online dating site.

The IAC (nasdaq IACI) To Acquire HowAboutWe ?

http://www.businessinsider.com/howaboutwe-iac-acquisition-2014-6

Every time the IAC acquires a big online dating site, it is like if they were paying a bribery to the VC investor who had previously invested in that big online dating site.

Recently I blogged about "Will IAC Buy SparkNetworks? My bet: NO"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/will-iac-buy-sparknetworks-my-bet-no.html

They acquire because they can not innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/free-vs-paid-sites.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/iac-buys-20-stake-in-zhenai.html

"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/online-dating-is-broad-concept.html
The average dater belongs to 4 o 5 online dating sites at the same time.


During 2011 HowAboutWe received a series B USD15 Million investment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-year-of-crazy-growth-that-led-to-howaboutwes-new-15-million-series-b-round-2011-11

Last year, 2013, "HowAboutWe Internationalized Its Dating App, Went Entirely Free In 30+ Countries"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/howaboutwe-internationalizes-its-dating.html
HowAboutWe is performing as a social dating site.

All social dating is vaporware.
Many social dating applications should collapse soon, like Badoo, Hinge, HowAboutWe, LikeBright, in the same road as LikeIt (TheCompleteMe).
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/hinge-not-competing-with-tinder.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/predicting-2014-main-online-dating.html

Do you remember when the IAC acquired SinglesNet 4 years ago?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/confrirmed-match-com-acquires-singlesnet/
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2010/02/iacs-matchcom-to-acquire-singlesnet-.html
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2010/04/singlesnet-experiencing-post-acquisition-woes/
Kiss (f.k.a. SinglesNet) GAME OVER
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/kiss-fka-singlesnet-game-over.html
Please read also: article "IAC Will Turn Match Dating Service Into a Separate Business" / part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/article-iac-will-turn-match-dating.html
A new mobile application at Match ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-mobile-application-at-match.html

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

Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  
  
Please see also:
My answer to the Topeka Analysis: Why Investors Should NOT Be Enthusiastic About Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html

Will IAC Buy SparkNetworks? My bet: NO

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/will-iac-buy-sparknetworks.html

http://nypost.com/2014/06/24/match-making-site-jdate-for-sale-and-seeking-suitor/
 Will IAC Buy SparkNetworks? My bet: NO

Recently, I read the article published by Bloomberg "As Tinder Flirts With Ads, Is It Worth Millions—or Billions?"
The journalist who had written the article says: "Last August I asked Match CEO Sam Yagan how much IAC would have had to pay for Tinder if it were acquiring the company as an independent startup, instead of having grown it in-house. Having sold his own dating business to IAC’s Match unit for USD50 million, he knew well the history of such sales. “I can’t think of a single acquisition of a dating site for more than USD10 million by someone other than Match,” Yagan said. “We are the global buyer.”"

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/match-vs-tinder-or-tinder-vs-match.html
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-03/as-tinder-flirts-with-ads-is-it-worth-millions-or-billions
http://seekingalpha.com/news/1671453-bloomberg-iac-buys-back-10-percent-of-tinder-at-5b-valuation-updated
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/04/11/no-tinder-is-not-worth-5-billion/
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-05-13/match-flirts-with-new-mobile-app-after-tinder-popularity-surges
http://internetdating.typepad.com/courtland_brooks/2014/05/match-group-interview-with-ceo-sam-yagan.html

In other words, I understand they want to pay no more than USD10 million for any big online dating site, considering the average dater belongs to 4 o 5 online dating sites at the same time.

Just my two cents.

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

Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  
  
Please see also:
My answer to the Topeka Analysis: Why Investors Should NOT Be Enthusiastic About Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html
Dave Evans, last May 2013 had blogged about Spark Networks and said
"if you look at past IAC dating site deals, Spark Networks’ financials don’t appear similar to those of companies that IAC has acquired. Go look at the financials for the full picture."
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2013/05/investor-thinks-spark-networks-is-the-next-netflix/
http://www.benzinga.com/trading-ideas/long-ideas/13/05/3580415/whitney-tilson-facebook-iac-takeover-target-could-be-the-next

From Spark Networks, Inc. (LOV) Q1 2014 Earnings Conference Call
Q1 2014 revenue was USD 16.6 Million, a decrease of 4% YOY.
Net loss was USD 2.9 Million, same as in the year ago period.
The number of paying subscribers (286,042 on average) also decreased 3.2% YOY.
ARPU (average revenue per user per month) USD 18.40
The company is now focusing on profitability, according to its CEO.

The company should also focus in innovating to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry. If not, it is a dead walking cat.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/about-spark-networks-inc-lov-q1-2014.html

Confusing information from PlentyOfFish

The online indicator includes all online daters, not country by country.

Germany
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pof.de

France
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pof.fr

Spain
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pof.es

Brazil
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pof.com.br

Please see also:
OPW Interview With POF's CEO (PlentyOfFish) June 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/opw-interview-with-pofs-ceo.html
and remember a year ago, during 2013, POF launched the application Passion Match. It seems nobody uses it.
 https://sensortower.com/ios/us/plentyoffish/app/passion-match/666069797#

Academics from all over the World had begun to publish Scientific Research using the HEXACO

Please see the paper:
Role of honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness,  conscientiousness and openness to experience personality dimensions, emotion regulation and stress coping strategies in predicting the quality of life in migraine peoples
http://jmums.mazums.ac.ir/files/site1/user_files_0d0bf0/reza_snu-A-10-2869-1-fef9f4d.pdf

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The normative Big5 model (a.k.a. Big Five, FFI, FFM, OCEAN model) to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to measure personality of daters. Now replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test. 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.

Academics from all over the World had begun to publish Scientific Research using the HEXACO model of personality and they plan to discontinue the Big5 model (a.k.a. Big Five, OCEAN or FFI five factor inventory, FFM five factor model). Online dating sites using the Big Five model could be considered obsolete sites, because the Big Five model has been proven as "an incorrect and incomplete model of personality"
As some of the subdomains of the main domains of the HEXACO model are different from the subdomains of the main domains of the Big Five model, it can not be simple added the scale of the Honesty-Humility factor to the Big Five model to upgrade the personality test to the HEXACO model.
".. the Big Five's Agreeableness and HEXACO's Agreeableness are not identical. The Big Five factors do not include an Honesty-Humility factor, but some of the characteristics belonging to Honesty-Humility are incorporated into the Big Five's Agreeableness factor. Although earlier investigations found only the Big Five factors, more recent studies conducted in various languages (including English) with larger sets of adjectives recovered six factors. "

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 between prospective mates. Also to take 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".
[Also some Psychologists began to encourage the use of other tests for the Online Dating Industry, like:
California Psychological Inventory (CPI)
and
The Millon Index of Personality Styles-Revised (MIPS Revised)
but my best recommendation is, of course, the 16PF5 normative personality test.
Nor the CPI nor the MIPS can outperform the 16PF5.]
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If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!


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.

 

OPW Interview With POF's CEO (PlentyOfFish) June 2014

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/pof-interview-with-ceo-markus-frind.html

With 10 billion a month pageviews, I estimate PlentyOfFish (POF) revenue in the range of USD 50 million (2014)
but
PlentyOfFish has the traffic, others receive the money. 

 PlentyOfFish Media owns PlentyOfFish site (POF) that:
 - failed to be acquired by IAC Personals several times (nasdaq IACI). The legal letter Match sent to the owners of PlentyOfFish (last April 2010) was the first step to initiate negotiations.
- failed with its Internationalization Plans
- its IPO is inviable. (The same for Zoosk)
- there were some bad news about serial killers at PlentyOfFish.
- tried to be the next "free eHarmony" during 2007 and failed. Now eHarmony, a 14 years obsolete site and a HOAX based in a BIG Scientific FRAUD is free/freemium.
- failed with the PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, the PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor and even the behavioural algorithm called UltraMatch.
- also failed with eVow to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
- its management team can not innovate in nothing.
- continually needs to buy traffic. The main secret of PlentyOfFish is: they buy expensive traffic and sell it cheaper, thanks to that it can display ads of paid online dating sites and receive commissions paid from them. PlentyOfFish Media also owns several white label dating sites for that purpose. To send tired daters from free sites to paid online dating sites.
The real secret of PlentyOfFish is: it needs to show ads mainly from online paid sites, then send prospective customers there and receive commissions when they acquire a paid membership.
A new Legislation to rule online dating sites, can hurt free/freemium sites like PlentyOfFish.

Please see:
too late and unnecessary! part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/too-late-and-unnecessary-part-2.html
Why no one could had copycatted PlentyOfFish (POF)? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/why-no-one-could-had-copycatted.html

Mensa Match Is Online Dating for Smart People ?

http://mashable.com/2014/06/25/mensa-match-is-online-dating-for-smart-people/
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/23/tech/match-mensa-singles/index.html

Nothing new!
Please see the paper:
Dijkstra, P. , Barelds, D.P.H. & Groothof, H.A.K., Ronner, S., & Nauta, A.P. (2012). Partner preferences of the intellectually gifted. Marriage and Family Review, 48, 96-108.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/paper-partner-preferences-of.html

".... dissimilarities in, for instance, age, values, interests, and personality are usually mentioned as the main reason for relationship breakup (e.g., Amato & Previti, 2003). For instance, in The Netherlands, where the present study was conducted, almost 40% of the divorcees report mismatches in personalities as the major cause of their break-up (De Graaf, 2006). Based on the similarity-attraction hypothesis we therefore expected the intellectually gifted, compared with other people, to more strongly value a potential partner’s high intelligence."

Several online dating sites offer / will offer IQ testing. Please remember IQ tests are ability tests, answers could be Right or Wrong, so the questions should be sorted in increasing difficulty forming a Rasch Hierarchy. Those IQ tests sould be constructed using Modern Test Theory / Item Response Theory (IRT).
Intelligent Elite, Brainiac Dating, IQ Gorgeous and others like them DO NOT meet IRT, they are all ... rubbish.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/iq-elite-relaunches-imitates-badoo.html 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/new-site-psicum-review-part-1-of-2.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/the-swiss-16pt-is-not-same-as-16pf5-test.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/iq-elite-from-intelligent-elite.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/05/iq-tests-and-dating.html

 Please read the article: 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.
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 correlation with 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. 
 

Rocket Internet GmbH. incubator IPO / July 2014 edition magazine.

More and more information about Rocket Internet GmbH. incubator IPO / July 2014 edition magazine.
http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/it/zalando-mutter-rocket-internet-plant-weitere-boersengaenge-a-976097.html
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/rocket-internet-ipo-update
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-gmbh-planning-ipo-2014.html


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-is-no-longer-invested.html

Here is the link about how they started that empire:
http://www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/jamba_maakt_kennis_met_de_kracht_van_weblogs


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.

more info AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-info-ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet.html

AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet-gmbh.html

Rocket Internet clone empire, most complicated financial puzzle in the World?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html
They are full of "shell companies" (phantom companies)
There is a very intriguing interlace of "Jade xxxx GmbH.", "Brillant xxxx GmbH.", "Bambino xx V V UG", "VRB GmbH. & Co. B-xxx KG" and "Juwel xxx V V UG" and other companies !!!

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

 Search for balances of those companies at:
 https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet

A big Ponzi Scheme ?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/a-big-ponzi-scheme.html

Sudden Drop / Sudden Stop in some European online dating sites

Like
eDarling German version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.de

eDarling French version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.fr

EliteSingles UK version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk

Elitesingles Ireland version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ie

MeeticFR
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meetic.fr

NeuDE
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.neu.de

Meetic Affinity French and Spanish versions:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meeticaffinity.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meeticaffinity.es

Something happened.
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/they-do-not-want-to-innovate.html

Please read also:
Alexa, a seismograph station for Internet sites
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/alexa-seismograph-station-for-internet.html

eHarmony Brazil GAME OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/eharmony-brazil-game-over.html

More new and fresh papers about recommender systems

Personalized and Geo-referenced Image Recommendation using Unified Hypergraph Learning and Group Sparsity Optimization

Study on Directed Trust Graph Based Recommendation for E-commerce System

Hot News Recommendation System From Heterogeneous Websites Based On Bayesian Model

N-Screen Aware Multi-criteria Hybrid Recommender System Using Weight Based Subspace Clustering

Group Recommendation:  An evolution Approach based on Bayesian Networks

Please see also:
NEW PAPER "Recommendation Based on Trust Diffusion Model" 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/new-paper-recommendation-based-on-trust.html

new 2 thesis about recommender systems
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/new-2-thesis-about-recommender-systems.html

PAPER: "How to Improve Multi-Agent Recommendations Using Data from Social Networks?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/paper-how-to-improve-multi-agent.html

Science and Information Conference 2014 August 27-29, 2014 London, UK 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/science-and-information-conference-2014.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. 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 to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
The Big Five (Big 5, FFI, FFM, OCEAN model) 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 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. 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".
[Also some Psychologists began to encourage the use of other tests for the Online Dating Industry, like:
California Psychological Inventory (CPI)
and
The Millon Index of Personality Styles-Revised (MIPS Revised)
but my best recommendation is, of course, the 16PF5 normative personality test.
Nor the CPI nor the MIPS can outperform the 16PF5.]


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


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.

Rocket (internet) is no longer invested in Zalando says article

at Business Insider.
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-your-days-are-numbered-top-online-entrepreneur-tells-retailers-2014-19
"Rocket Internet also helped launch Zalando, Europe's biggest online fashion retailer, which is considering its own stock market listing. Rocket is no longer invested in Zalando, but the Samwer brothers' European Founders Fund still owns 18 percent. (USD1 = 0.7368 Euros)"

Please see also:
Rocket Internet removed Zalando, Affinitas and others from ALL VENTURES list!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-removed-zalando.html

Rocket Internet GmbH. incubator IPO just now?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-gmbh-incubator-ipo-just.html

Brazil Digital Future in Focus 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/brazil-digital-future-in-focus-2014.html

If you want to replicate a big success in Brazil, it will be as hard as the same to replicate it in all European countries, but in this case with 1/8 of population and the majority of the persons DO NOT own or WILL NOT use a credit/debit card to buy online! They will prefer to research online and then buy offline.
The same for Africa, and perhaps the same for Russia.
Many if not most, USA, Canada or European businesses models are inviable in Latin American countries!

Perhaps the same situation for Africa, Russia or even Australia.
(transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than Europe)
  
All European countries fit in Brazil or Australia,
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/all-european-countries-fit-in-brazil-or.html

article: GM Recalls: How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-18/gm-recalls-whistle-blower-was-ignored-mary-barra-faces-congress#r=hp-sf
http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-04-04/gm-faulty-ignition-switch-explained.html

Please read also:
USA DOJ Announces Criminal Charge Against Toyota Motor Corporation
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/usa-doj-announces-criminal-charge.html

The same should happen for the Online Dating Industry.

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.

The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials. 

Like eHarmony,  a 14 years old obsolete site and a HOAX based on a big scientific FRAUD, because the normative Big Five model to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to measure personality of daters. Now replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test.
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/iaci-and-eharmony-usa-sites-big-tv.html

online dating mobile apps: Risks leaking your personal data!

Please see full articles at:
http://betanews.com/2014/06/18/using-online-dating-mobile-apps-risks-leaking-your-personal-data/
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/20062014-personal-data-not-secure-on-top-dating-apps/

Rocket Internet GmbH. incubator IPO just now?

From Bloomberg video:
http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-06-02/rocket-internet-plans-ipo-on-frankfurt-exchange

From this German article:
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/06/19/boersenplaene-oliver-samwer/

Please see:
Rocket Internet GmbH. planning IPO 2014?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-gmbh-planning-ipo-2014.html
and
Rocket Internet removed Zalando, Affinitas and others from ALL VENTURES list!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-removed-zalando.html

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.

more info AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-info-ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet.html

AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet-gmbh.html

Rocket Internet clone empire, most complicated financial puzzle in the World?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html
They are full of "shell companies" (phantom companies)
There is a very intriguing interlace of "Jade xxxx GmbH.", "Brillant xxxx GmbH.", "Bambino xx V V UG", "VRB GmbH. & Co. B-xxx KG" and "Juwel xxx V V UG" and other companies !!!

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

 Search for balances of those companies at:
 https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet

A big Ponzi Scheme ?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/a-big-ponzi-scheme.html

And eDarling Chile and eDarling Mexico by Rocket Internet GmbH. incubator?

No more listed in their ventures in Mexico and Chile.
Why?

Please see screenshots from After and Before, both for Mexico and Chile.

Please read also Rocket Internet removed Zalando, Affinitas and others from ALL VENTURES list!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-removed-zalando.html

HotOrNot returns like a "living dead"?; powered by Badoo.

 Full article at Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hot-or-not-mobile-relaunch-2014-6
They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/badoo-corporate-freezed-since-feb-2014.html
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/they-do-not-want-to-innovate.html
The biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are precisely marketing executives from big sites. They use credit card billing trickery.
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/tinder-mix-of-badoo-zoosk-snapchat.html
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.

Please read the article: 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

Social dating is vaporware.
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".

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

And Zoosk (ZSK) IPO? part2

Zoosk IPO freezed?
 http://secfilings.com/SearchResults.aspx?name=zoosk
or
Failed like Badoo's and eHarmony's IPOs?
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/ipos-in-online-dating-industry.html
Who knows?


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/and-zoosk-zsk-ipo-what-happened.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-big-losses-from-zoosk-q1-2014.html

Since Zoosk was founded and funded, never made a dime in profit. Since 2007 operating at a loss!
Astonished to see how they try to sell a failure as a big success citing rubbish statistics from IBISWorld report.

It says 13,000 + sites but .......

IF YOU ARE AN EXPERT IN THE ONLINE DATING INDUSTRY YOU KNOW SOMETHING WRONG IS THERE.

Global Personals Ltd. owns White Label which had been proven by Journalists to invent fake profiles. After UK Channel 4 investigation "Fools for love: how an internet dating firm duped clients" last November 2012, that company should had been closed and Management Team sent to jail!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/no-mention-to-ods-conference-no-photos.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2012/11/uk-global-personals-allegedly-uses-fake-profiles.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/fools-for-love-how-one-internet-dating-firm-dupes-clients
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/the-white-label-dating-enigma-part-2.html 

Please see also:
Entrepreneur of the year? Laundering money? Now Young Director of the Year?  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/entrepreneur-of-year-laundering-money.html
 

Entrepreneur of the year? Laundering money? Now Young Director of the Year?

Now also Global Personals CEO Ross Williams Wins IoD Young Director of the Year?
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/16062014-global-personals-ceo-ross-williams-wins-iod-young-director-of-the-year/

Please remember:
Global Personals Ltd. owns White Label which had been proven by Journalists to invent fake profiles. After UK Channel 4 investigation "Fools for love: how an internet dating firm duped clients" last November 2012, that company should had been closed and Management Team sent to jail!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/no-mention-to-ods-conference-no-photos.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2012/11/uk-global-personals-allegedly-uses-fake-profiles.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/fools-for-love-how-one-internet-dating-firm-dupes-clients
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/the-white-label-dating-enigma-part-2.html

OR

Who really owns Global Personals? The MI6?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/who-really-owns-global-personals.html


I can not understand how a thief can win prizes in the UK!

Rocket Internet removed Zalando, Affinitas and others from ALL VENTURES list!

Just seen Rocket Internet GmbH. (German Incubator) had removed Zalando AG.; eDarling (Affinitas GmbH.) and other companies from its ALL VENTURES list.
Please see BEFORE and AFTER screenshots!
Where is Zalando AG.?

I used WayBack Machine to obtain the BEFORE screenshot.

Rocket Internet GmbH. planning IPO 2014?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/rocket-internet-gmbh-planning-ipo-2014.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/a-big-ponzi-scheme.html

Who owns Affinitas GmbH. now?
Perhaps Affinitas GmbH. will be closed next October 2014 due to high operating losses.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/some-data-from-elitesingles-english.html

Rocket Internet clone empire, most complicated financial puzzle in the World?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html
They are full of "shell companies" (phantom companies)
There is a very intriguing interlace of "Jade xxxx GmbH.", "Brillant xxxx GmbH.", "Bambino xx V V UG", "VRB GmbH. & Co. B-xxx KG" and "Juwel xxx V V UG" and other companies !!!

They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!

Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish.
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/idate-mark-brooks-mobile-dating-presentation.html

C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html
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.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/EliteSingles/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).


The biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are precisely marketing executives from big sites. They use credit card billing trickery.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/top-86-tips-from-idate-2013-cologne-koln.html
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