Saturday, May 31, 2014

A big Ponzi Scheme ?

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.

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

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

Thursday, May 29, 2014

PAPER: Bitcoin: Is Cryptocurrency Viable? / (Ponzi Scheme ?)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin


Hill, Austin, "Bitcoin: Is Cryptocurrency Viable?" (2014). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 902.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1848&context=cmc_theses

Table of Contents
Introduction 
Chapter 1: Introduction to Cryptocurrency
Chapter 2: Propensity for Illegal Activity
Chapter 3: Wallet Vulnerability
Chapter 4: The Gold Standard
Chapter 5: History of Digital Currency
Chapter 6: Bitcoin Competitors
Chapter 7: Regulatory Reactions
Chapter 8: Valuation
Chapter 9: Bitcoin and Government
Chapter 10: Cryptocurrency Potential
Conclusion
Bibliography

Internet Trends report 2014 from KPCB











BIG TECH BUBBLE IN PROGRESS! (slide #21 of report)
http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
like the year 2000 one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble


tech space that is out of control: WhatsApp
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/tech-space-that-is-out-of-control.html
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.
Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then, the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. If they can not find a private buyer for the entire company, the investors had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, they turn those pieces of paper (shares) in real money, they get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).


As for wearable, remember Wi Fi is microwave radiation.
Please see the paper: LONG-TERM EXPOSURE TO MICROWAVE RADIATION PROVOKES CANCER GROWTH: EVIDENCES FROM RADARS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/long-term-exposure-to-microwave.html


Consumers Voting for Personalization (slide #119 of report)


See also:
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)


Internet Trends report 2013 from KPCB
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/internet-trends-report-2013-from-kpcb.html

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Brazil Digital Future in Focus 2014








http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations_and_Whitepapers/2014/2014_Brazil_Digital_Future_in_Focus_Webinar

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

compare to
U.S.A. Digital Future in Focus 2014 (comScore Report)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/usa-digital-future-in-focus-2014.html

and please see also:
South American Market / 2 tips
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/south-american-market-2-tips.html

ComScore report: Mobile Path to Purchase
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/comscore-report-mobile-path-to-purchase.html

more info AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014 / 13 presentations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-info-ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet.html

Latin American countries digital future 2012!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/latin-american-countries-digital-future.html

Latin Americans do mostly not use any bank services. I think over 70% of population do not have any debit or credit cards, they always pay in cash.
The few ones who have credit cards, do mostly not use them for subscriptions to avoid automatic rebilling, and they are very afraid of phishing and identity theft.
The few ones who have debit cards, do mostly not use them for Internet transactions because they are afraid of phishing and identity theft.

More than 70% of people who own a cell phone in Latin America, are pre-paid clients. They do not receive bills, they charge credit in their cell phones by 2 methods: Acquiring pre-paid cards at kiosks/drugstores or via virtual charge at kiosks/drugstores/supermarkets or at any place with a PosNet terminal (Banelco or Link)

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Dr. Wendy Walsh Talks About Instant Chemistry’s DNA Dating on BBC 5Live

 http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/27052014-dr-wendy-walsh-talks-about-instant-chemistrys-dna-dating-on-bbc-5live/
Remember Instant Chemistry’s DNA Dating is a HOAX, another BIG FRAUD in the Online Dating Industry.

 See also:
"Pheromone Parties"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/another-hoax-pheromone-parties.html

They now offer the same as Basisnote, GenePartner, ScientificMatch and other proposals offering DNA matching which are only based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved:
normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs,

and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
and
2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
1) "Human oestrus" Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

2) "Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?" Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
".. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity."
................
"...., Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women's mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women." 

Please remember personality = temperament + character
Personality is composed of two basic types of traits:
traits that an individual acquires, dimensions of character;
and
traits with biological underpinnings, dimensions of temperament (Cloninger 1987)


The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

And Zoosk (ZSK) IPO? What happened?

Who knows?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-big-losses-from-zoosk-q1-2014.html

 http://secfilings.com/SearchResults.aspx?name=zoosk


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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ibisworld-analyst-eharmony-is-forecast.html

Monday, May 26, 2014

Paper: A STUDY OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS OF MOUNTAINEERS (in India)


www.shodhsangam.org/uploads/1396022095.pdf
ABSTRACT
Mountaineering  is  gaining  great  popularity  in  India.  Lot  of  individuals  are  performing this  activity  due  to  its  versatility.  A  necessity  has  been  felt  to  know  more  about  the mountaineering field and mountaineers. The researcher performed a study to know the
psychological status of mountaineers. To know the psychological status of mountaineers the researcher conducted Sixteen Personality Factor test on male mountaineers aged 17 to 40 years. From the analysis it is known that the mountaineers show average scores in all factors except Factor G (Rule-Consciousness).

Subjects: For the current study the researcher conducted the Sixteen Personality Factor test  (16 PF) on  259 male mountaineers,  undergoing the up-gradation courses at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi.

Rule-Consciousness (Factor G) involves adopting and conscientiously following society's accepted standards of behavior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16PF_Questionnaire
 
See also:
Paper: A STUDY OF EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF INDIAN AND ARGENTINEAN PLAYERS PLAYING IN JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (2009)
www.shodhsangam.org/uploads/1396019394.pdf


via SHODH SANGAM
http://www.shodhsangam.org/shodh-sangam-1.html
-----------------

Please read also:
Entrepreneurship and Personality Traits
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/11/entrepreneurship-and-personality-traits.html

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!



What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
100 times (not 100%) more powerful than eHarmony's matching algorithm or any other site.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Sunday, May 25, 2014

article at TechCrunch "Deciphering The Economics Of Venture Capital"

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/24/deciphering-the-economics-of-venture-capital/


There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.
Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then, the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. If they can not find a private buyer for the entire company, the investors had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, they turn those pieces of paper (shares) in real money, they get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/social-media-faces-doubts-after-latest.html

See as sample: Steven Loeb from Vator had published the article "Was WhatsApp really worth the USD19 billion price?" (Feb. 2014)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/tech-space-that-is-out-of-control.html
and
Twitter 1st Quarter 2014 Results: net loss of USD 132 million!!!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/twitter-1st-quarter-2014-results-net.html

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
100 times (not 100%) more powerful than eHarmony's matching algorithm or any other site.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Saturday, May 24, 2014

more info AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014 / 13 presentations


Introduction - Kinnevik
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225876706/KinnevikCMD2014-pdf     
Rocket Internet Overview & Operations    
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225877279/RocketInternetKinnevik2014-pdf
Lamoda
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225877278/Lamoda2014-pdf    
Dafiti
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225877277/Dafiti2014-pdf    
Zalora
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225877276/Zalora2014-pdf    
Jabong
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225877275/Jabong2014-pdf     
Namshi
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878861/Namshi2014-pdf     
Lazada
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878862/Lazada2014-pdf     
Linio
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878865/Linio2014-pdf     
Jumia
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878867/Jumia2014-pdf    
Home24
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878866/Home242014-pdf    
Westwing
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878868/Westwing2014-pdf     
Zalando
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225878863/Zalando2014-pdf

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.
 (See eHarmony Brazil how it failed)


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. 


See this fresh article at Bloomberg:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-15/germanys-samwer-brothers-take-their-web-copycat-act-global
Germany's Samwer Brothers Take Their Web Copycat Act Global "In the past two years, the Samwers have been forced to rethink that formula since the flash-sales site Fab eclipsed Rocket’s imitator in Europe, Bamarang. Fab’s success prompted companies such as Airbnb to fight the clones instead of paying them off. The Samwers declined to comment for this story. "
then "Fab once again fires a big chunk of its workforce"
http://vator.tv/news/2014-05-22-fab-once-again-fires-a-big-chuck-of-its-workforce



Big investments, big losses
http://venturevillage.eu/kinnevik-rocket-internet-investments
As for the young Latin American Amazon clone, Linio, 2017 is set to be a good year – with estimated revenues of €281m, the Samwers claim that the return on sales will be an impressive 12%. This is a clear sign of the Samwers’ huge and rather unrealistic ambitions: by comparison, the company’s US original, Amazon, makes just over 1% in returns.




Please see also:
A very complicated interlace of "Jade xxxx GmbH." and "Brillant xxxx GmbH." companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-very-complicated-interlace-of-jade.html
Dafiti Latam GmbH. balance 2011
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/dafiti-latam-gmbh-balance-2011.html
All European countries fit in Brazil or Australia,
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/all-european-countries-fit-in-brazil-or.html
AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014 / 13 presentations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet-gmbh.html

Friday, May 23, 2014

All European countries fit in Brazil or Australia,

see world map as I see every day!


 If you are from North Hemisphere, please see World Map "upside down" and using Hobo Dyer Equal Area Projection. Australia is big, but mostly a big desert (no food, no water)





To replicate a success in Brazil, it is the same to replicate in all European countries 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!
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.
 (See eHarmony Brazil how it failed)

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)

Rocket Internet clone empire, most complicated financial puzzle in the World?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internet-clone-empire-most.html

AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014 / 13 presentations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet-gmbh.html

AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014 / 13 presentations


UPDATE
more info AB Kinnevik & Rocket Internet GmbH. capital markets day 2014 / 13 presentations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-info-ab-kinnevik-rocket-internet.html








http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/kinnevik-rocket-capital-markets-day
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/05/23/rocket-internet-geheim/
http://www.kinnevik.se/sv/Investerare/Kinnevik-Rocket-Kapitalmarknadsdag-2014/
http://www.kinnevik.se/en/Investor/Kinnevik-Rocket-capital-markeys-day-2014/

Introduction - Kinnevik Presentation 
Rocket Internet Overview & Operations Presentation
Lamoda Presentation
Dafiti Presentation
Zalora Presentation
Jabong  Presentation
Namshi  Presentation
Lazada  Presentation
Linio  Presentation
Jumia Presentation
Home24 Presentation
Westwing  Presentation
 Zalando Presentation

Zalando Q1 2014 net loss Euros 60 Million ? Zalando IPO next September 2014 in USA?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/zalando-q1-2014-net-loss-euros-60.html

Rocket Internet clone empire list of companies 2012
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225242922/LISTofCOMPANIES2012RocketInternet-pdf

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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
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 their Management Team can not innovate in nothing because they are not entrepreneurs, they will collapse. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

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
Please read this German article about Ponzi schema
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2013/07/17/samwer-brueder-400-millionen-dollar-fuer-den-internet-hype/
onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html
and
Rocket Internet's Samwer Brothers + AB Kinnevik + Tengelmann Ventures.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/rocket-internets-samwer-brothers-ab.html
Samwer-Inkubator Goldman-Sachs-Banker wird neuer CFO von Rocket Internet ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/samwer-inkubator-goldman-sachs-banker.html
Rocket Internet clone empire balance and list of companies 2012
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/rocket-internet-clone-empire-balance.html
Some articles about Rocket Internet GmbH. and Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/some-articles-about-rocket-internet.html

Thursday, May 22, 2014

PAPER: Development of a group recommender application in a Social Network


Abstract
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095070511400197X
In today's society, recommendations are becoming increasingly important. With the advent of the Social Web and the growing popularity of Social Networks, where users explicitly provide personal information and interact with others and the system, it is becoming clear that the key for the success of recommendations is to develop new strategies which focus on social recommendations leveraged by these new sources of knowledge. In our work, we focus on group recommender systems. These systems traditionally suffer from a number of shortcomings that hamper their effectiveness. In this paper we continue our research, that focuses on improving the overall quality of group recommendations through the addition of social knowledge to existing recommendation strategies. To do so, we use the information stored in Social Networks to elicit social factors following two approaches: the cognitive modeling approach, that studies how people's way of thinking predisposes their actions; and the social approach, that studies how people's relationships predispose their actions. We show the value of using models of social cognition extracted from Social Networks in group recommender systems through the instantiation of our model into a real-life Facebook movie recommender application.


The authors used first an adaptation of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI). The TKI test consists of 30 different situations with two possible answers. Depending on the answers, a score is assigned for 5 existing personality modes organized according to two dimensions: assertiveness and cooperativeness. Then replaced that test with a movie metaphor as an alternative personality test.


Other proposal like the above one is PersonalityML.
Personality markup language (PersonalityML) has the aim of standardize and help to disseminate and share the use of users’ personality information across applications that take human psychological aspects into account in the computer decision making process.
http://personalityresearch.ufs.br/en/products/softwares/personalityml
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/about-new-markup-language-called.html

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.

and

PAPER: How do personality traits affect communication among users in online social networks?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/paper-how-do-personality-traits-affect.html
RecSys 2010 Conference was full of papers about Personality based recommender systems, but this RecSys 2011 Conference has only one outstanding paper:
Rong Hu and Pearl Pu, 2011 "Enhancing Collaborative Filtering Systems with Personality Information"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/best-paper-recsys-2011-conference.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) 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!

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

about the recent interview with the CEO of Match Group

via Courtland Brooks' blog.
 http://internetdating.typepad.com/courtland_brooks/2014/05/match-group-interview-with-ceo-sam-yagan.html

My comments are:
eHarmony Inc. launched eH+ some months ago.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/eharmony-plus-eh.html
Match have followed eHarmony into the high-end matchmaking market, partnering with LA-based Three Day Rule.
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/21052014-match-partner-with-la-matchmakers-three-day-rule/

Remember "It's Just Lunch To Face U.S. Class-action Lawsuit"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/new-lawsuit-against-dating-siteagency.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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/like-computers-killed-typewriters.html
"Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:48 am
Yagan's session, titled “Where’s Dating 2.0? The Lack of Innovation in the Online Dating Industry,” will contrast the evolution of other consumer Internet verticals with the relative standstill of online dating sites over the last decade.
.....“Our industry is missing the revolution, focusing on superfluous bells and whistles, like background checks and video-dating while ignoring the needs, desires, and expectations of singles,” said Yagan. “Why is it that sites like Digg and Facebook are free but Match and eHarmony charge almost USD1,000 per year for membership? Our industry must find a way to adapt to the business models and user experiences that singles expect in a Web 2.0 world.” ..."


but ... Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia's Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/something-big-will-happen-soon.html

I think IAC is going to deactivate Tinder soon or later, it will absorb it and merge with Match mobile (Please see Stream and Mixer features) if Tinder is cannibalizing Match mobile application.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/about-article-match-flirts-with-new.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-mobile-application-at-match.html

Please remember:
When the IAC Personals bought OKCupid (3 years ago) for an astronomical amount of money (USD 90 million), the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission.
IAC Personals backed Tinder instead, as the copycat of Badoo, but it seems there is a divorce between Tinder and Match just now!

Please read:
Report about Q1 2014, IAC (nasdaq IACI)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/report-about-q1-2014-iac-nasdaq-iaci.html

As usual, they do not want to innovate, they want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the users.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
 

Why USA state spying is good; and Chinese state spying is bad ?

Just read that article at Channel4 blog (from the U.K) .
http://blogs.channel4.com/geoff-white-on-technology/china-fbi-spying-cyber-espionage/959

Please remember:
Last year, Diario Clarín, newspaper from Argentina, had published the article "El espionaje es por intereses económicos, no por terrorismo" meaning "Espionage is for economic interests, not terrorism" during the NSA scandal.
The journalist Mr. Glenn Greenwald, who had published leaked documents by Snowden at The Guardian, spoke with Clarin in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Channel 4 from the U.K. had published several articles in the column "PRISM spying scandal"

I had been reading some classified information for years and the majority of those Top Secret documents, I think, are really stupidities, like gossip news published in women's magazines. The only one information I know that could cause serious commotion among population of North Hemisphere's countries; with possible mass flight from their countries, loss of many lives, murder and mass disturbances is:
90% of World Population in North Hemisphere would die by 2050 due to climate change (no water, no food)
Perhaps by 2030, some rich countries like U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany and Russia plan to send some of their young people (less than 30 years old, well educated, white skin and high I.Q. levels) to live in South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and others).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/espionage-is-for-economic-interests.html

Best place to live will be South America by 2050.


Please read:    
Qian Xuesen, "Father of China's Aerospace" and "King of Rockets"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_Rocket

Predicting User Replying Behavior on a Large Online Dating Site


The (Chinese) paper Predicting User Replying Behavior on a Large Online Dating Site has been presented at the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2014. It is about Baihe.
Same authors of the paper Who is Dating Whom: Characterizing User Behaviors of a Large Online Dating Site.

But, unfortunately .....
big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-data-dating-is-not-key-to-long.html
Please see also:

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
and remember:
Personality based recommenders are the next generation of recommender systems. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/new-papers-recommender-systems.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.



Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Rocket Internet clone empire balance and list of companies 2012

Rocket Internet clone empire list of companies 2012
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225242922/LISTofCOMPANIES2012RocketInternet-pdf

Rocket Internet clone empire balance 2012
http://es.scribd.com/doc/225242923/RocketInternet2012BALANCE-pdf

obtained from
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
then search for "Rocket Internet"
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Samwer-Inkubator Goldman-Sachs-Banker wird neuer CFO von Rocket Internet ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/samwer-inkubator-goldman-sachs-banker.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 !!!

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Pinterest Raises New Round of USD 200 Million ?


http://mashable.com/2014/05/15/pinterest-5-billion/
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/svangel-leads-pinterests-5-billion-round/

Perhaps Pinterest is like Chatroulette and will collapse soon.
Lots of persons want to use it, but nobody wants to pay for it.
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.
Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then, the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. If they can not find a private buyer for the entire company, the investors had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, they turn those pieces of paper (shares) in real money, they get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).

Please read
Pinterest CEO Lays Out Growth Plan, Sees Revenue in 2014
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304027204579334651169493632
tech space that is out of control: WhatsApp 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/tech-space-that-is-out-of-control.html
Social media faces doubts after latest round of results ?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/social-media-faces-doubts-after-latest.html

PAPER Personality Resilience Following a Natural Disaster

http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/01/1948550614528545.abstract
Abstract


We examine changes in the Big Six personality markers (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness to Experience, and Honesty–Humility) before and after the 2010/2011 Christchurch earthquakes in a longitudinal study of New Zealand residents (N =3,914). Results show remarkable stability in personality, save for one exception: Those who were affected by the earthquakes evidenced a slight decrease in Emotional Stability over the 2-year test–retest period relative to those unaffected by the earthquakes. These findings indicate that most aspects of personality are resilient following a major natural disaster. The slight decrease in Emotional Stability, however, points to a possible increase in vulnerability to depression and anxiety for those affected by the earthquakes. Our study provides important insights into a central question about stability and change in personality following major life events.


Please see how researchers are using the Big Six model and not more the Big Five model!
The Big Five model had been revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to measure personality.

Please see also:
Examining the relationship between changes in personality and changes in depression.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/examining-relationship-between-changes.html
Please remember:
Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old (the group of persons who could be most interested in serious online dating)
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 Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

Do you know that 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 any researcher wants to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, he/she 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!

LIFEPROJECT METHOD versus eHARMONY 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html