"Breaking the online dating sound barrier": January 2015

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)

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

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

Thursday, January 29, 2015

What I "learned" at iDate 2015 Superconference

THEY DO NOT WANT TO INNOVATE. Only that.

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2015/01/15-things-i-learned-at-idate.html
http://globaldatinginsights.com/28012015-8-things-we-learned-at-idate-2015/

Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/09/26-tips-from-idate-2014-cologne-germany.html
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2014
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.
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).

"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals.
Social dating is vaporware.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/valuing-tinder-like-vc-article-at.html
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/tinder-co-founder-whitney-wolfe-and-bumble-2015-1
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

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"

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.

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

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Valuing Tinder like a VC? article at Seeking Alpha

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2852596-iac-interactive-corp-unlocking-the-value-of-tinder-a-vc-valuation-exercise?
How much money will you need to destroy Tinder forever launching an improved copycat of it? Like Facebook destroyed MySpace during 2009.
Less than USD100 million, but that is done, it is Bumble (backed by Badoo).

At the "mobile dating apps U.S. Market Share by Session" graph I do dot see data from PentyOfFish (aka POF) and Badoo, or MeetMe (MEET) Something is wrong there.

It is a shrinking market.
Like Microsoft Encarta cannibalized Encyclopedia Britannica.
Then years later, Wikipedia destroyed Microsoft Encarta.

Have you seen the annual revenue of Match, Chemistry, OkCupid, Meetic, and other IAC's (nasdaq: IACI) online dating sites excluding Tinder? In the range of USD 800 Million with profits. The prospective revenue of Tinder is no more than USD 100 million because it will not outperform Badoo. As a social discovery site, Tinder, could make no profit at all, like Zoosk! (pending: ZSK)

Recently, Badoo backed Bumble (by former employees of Tinder) in order to compete with Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/topeka-capital-sees-ad-potential-in.html
The mission of Tinder was to destroy Badoo, Zoosk, HowAboutWe, Spark Networks' sites, Snap Interactive's sites and others similar to them (social dating, social discovery)
Tinder failed in that mission and now is destroying Match (cannibalizing it from inside)

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/why-tinder-can-drive-upside-for.html

"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals.
Social dating is vaporware.
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Rocket Internet’s Asian Plans for 2015 ?

http://sdasia.co/2015/01/27/rocket-internets-plans-2015/

Goldman Sachs is the main puppeteer of ........ Rocket Internet AG. (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)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/dafiti-lost-euros-729-million-during.html http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/rocket-internet-ag-half1-2014.html http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/rocket-internet-ag-2014-milestones.html http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/19/rocket-internet-ceo-we-build-real-companies-work-for-google-if-you-like-sushi-and-comfy-chairs/

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

They are full (in excess) of phantom companies, shell companies.
And not only they have lots of phantom companies, shell companies. There is a very complicated and intriguing interlace of them. (very suspicious situation)
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 !!!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-very-complicated-interlace-of-jade.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/they-really-deserve-police.html

Monday, January 26, 2015

Standard Article "Online dating" by Dr. Pepper Schwartz

Abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs317/abstract
Online dating has been around since the mid-1960s and has grown into a highly differentiated number of sites and businesses in many countries, including industrializing economies such as China and India. Sites uses a series of different algorithms to match people, and people can choose among boutique or huge sites, but all sites ask basic questions such as height, weight and age to use for matching. Safety concerns are real but manageable, and while finding a partner on line has become increasingly acceptable, many people find online dating hard, not rewarding, or just exhausting.
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Dr. Pepper Schwartz is/was the main braind behind PerfectMatch
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/perfectmatch-another-hoax.html

Please remember:
"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/article-does-online-dating-work-lets-be.html
The Worldwide Online Dating Market 2014 / Spanish version / (full).(all link to pages in English)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-worldwide-online-dating-market-2014.html
Online Dating Market full version 2013
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/online-dating-market-full-version-2013.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/online-dating-market-full-version-2013_6.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/online-dating-market-full-version-2013_7.html
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
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! 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 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.

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

Friday, January 23, 2015

More Stupid Investors' series: The League

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Uber IPO should FAIL.

It is only a Ponzi Scheme.

Unbelievable: Uber takes another USD1.6B in funding!
The on-demand car company, which has raised USD4B in two years, is also looking for yet another $600M!
http://vator.tv/news/2015-01-21-unbelievable-uber-takes-another-16b-in-funding
Uber has taken USD1.6 billion in a convertible debt round from Goldman Sachs.

and Goldman Sachs is the main puppeteer of ........ Rocket Internet AG. (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)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/rocket-internet-ag-half1-2014.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/rocket-internet-ag-2014-milestones.html
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/19/rocket-internet-ceo-we-build-real-companies-work-for-google-if-you-like-sushi-and-comfy-chairs/

Please see:
Article at Vator: The USD1B valuation club became super crowded in 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/article-at-vator-usd1b-valuation-club.html

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

SCAMMERS & ONLINE DATING FRAUD 2015 TRENDS AND TACTICS, a GDI report

http://globaldatinginsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/GDI-WEB-4.pdf
http://globaldatinginsights.com/download-report-scammers-dating-fraud/

Interesting report but ..... remember:
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.

Please remember:
Channel 4 on Globals Personals (Whitelabel dating)
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
It says 13,000 + sites but .......
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/it-says-13000-sites-but.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/entrepreneur-of-year-laundering-money.html

Ashley Madison: "The dispute began when Silva — who came to Toronto from Brazil — sued her former employer in 2012, alleging she seriously hurt her wrists and forearms typing up 1,000 "fake female profiles" over a few weeks for a new Portuguese-language version of the site."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/lawsuit-against-dating-site-for-married.html

JDI Dating Fined USD616K For Fake Profiles
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/10/jdi-dating-fined-616k-for-fake-profiles.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/online-dating-scam-alert-jdi-dating.html

Facebook In Argentina Fined Over Fake Profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/facebook-in-argentina-fined-over-fake.html

BBC investigation over Cupid PLC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23409947
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21366326
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23425366
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/how-alexa-shows-bbc-of-london-uk.html

and

Match in USA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/photos-posted-match-led-suicide-model-article-1.1527230

Evan Spencer, had said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match fail to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that her pictures were being used hundreds of times.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/bad-news-big-lawsuit-against-match.html
Last August 2011 when a U.S. Class Action Called Match a 'Scam' / More than 90% of potential dates are "phantoms," suit charged then Match had morphed its marketing campaign.

As usual, They can win in Court but they could be incinerated by Journalists or killed by power of word of mouth!

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.

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

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Topeka Capital Sees Ad Potential in IAC's Tinder Mobile App???

"Topeka Capital analyst Victor Anthony maintained a Buy rating on IAC with a price target of USD87 on January 16th citing the ad potential on Tinder that could lead to increased monetization." Investing article
http://www.investing.com/analysis/topeka-capital-sees-ad-potential-in-iac%27s-mobile-app,-tinder-238844
http://adage.com/article/agency-news/tinder-captures-brand-dollars-gillette-deal/296624/

I answered:
Have you seen the annual revenue of Match, Chemistry, OkCupid, Meetic, and other IAC's (nasdaq: IACI) online dating sites excluding Tinder? In the range of USD 800 Million with profits. The prospective revenue of Tinder is no more than USD 100 million because it will not outperform Badoo. As a social discovery site, Tinder, could make no profit at all, like Zoosk! (pending: ZSK)

Recently, Badoo backed Bumble (by former employees of Tinder) in order to compete with Tinder.

The mission of Tinder was to destroy Badoo, Zoosk, HowAboutWe, Spark Networks' sites, Snap Interactive's sites and others similar to them (social dating, social discovery)
Tinder failed in that mission and now is destroying Match (cannibalizing it from inside)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/why-tinder-can-drive-upside-for.html

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Please #idate2015 talk about innovations for the Online Dating Industry (#idate).

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html
For iDate January 2015 Superconference. Las Vegas, Nevada. USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/online-dating-industry-2015-innovations.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

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!

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

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

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.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Paper: Recommendation Systems for Markets with Two Sided Preferences

http://spirit.cs.ucdavis.edu/pubs/conf/icmla14.pdf

Abstract
In recent times we have witnessed the emergence of large online markets with two-sided preferences that are responsible for businesses worth billions of dollars.
Recommendation systems are critical components of such markets. It is to be noted that the matching in such a market depends on the preferences of both sides, consequently, the construction of a recommendation system for such a market calls for consideration of preferences of both sides. The online dating market, and the online freelancer market are examples of markets with two-sided preferences.
Recommendation systems for such markets are fundamentally different from typical rating based product recommendations. We pose this problem as a bipartite ranking problem. There has been extensive research on bipartite ranking algorithms. Typically, generalized linear regression models are popular methods of constructing such ranking on account of their ability to be learned easily from big data, and their computational simplicity on engineering platforms. However, we show that for markets with two sided preferences, one can improve the AUC (Area Under the receiver operator Curve) score by considering separate models for preferences of both the sides and constructing a two layer architecture for ranking. We call this a two-level model algorithm. For both synthetic and real data we show that the two-level model algorithm has a better AUC performance than the direct application of a generalized linear model such as L1 logistic regression or an ensemble method such as random forest algorithm. We provide a theoretical justification of AUC optimality of two-level model and pose a theoretical problem for a more general result.

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

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/paper-collaborative-filtering-for.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!

Finding 'Love' in China: An Overview of Chinese Marriage Markets (BaiFaXiangQin)

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/946/finding-love-in-china-an-overview-of-chinese-marriage-markets-baifaxiangqin
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/946/2/finding-love-in-china-an-overview-of-chinese-marriage-markets-baifaxiangqin
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/946/3/finding-love-in-china-an-overview-of-chinese-marriage-markets-baifaxiangqin

Please see: PAPER: Dyadic Relationship Values in Chinese Online Daters: Love American Style?

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

article: The weird racial politics of online dating

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/11404/online-dating-tinder-racism/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/18/online-dating-race_n_6497150.html

Please see the paper:
Racial Preferences in Online Dating across European Countries
http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/01/04/esr.jcu093.abstract

Abstract
Knowledge about how race governs partner selection has been predominantly studied in the United States, yet it is unclear whether these results can be generalized to nations with different racial and immigration patterns. Using a large-scale sample of online daters in nine European countries, we engage in the first cross-national analysis of race-related partner preferences and examine the link between contextual factors and ethnic selectivity. We provide a unique test of contact, conflict, and in-group identification theories. We show that individuals uniformly prefer to date same-race partners and that there is a hierarchy of preferences both among natives and minority groups. Notable country differences are also found. Europeans living in countries with a large foreign-born population have an increased preference for minority groups. The ethnically heterogeneous Swiss population displays the strongest preference for minorities, with the more homogenous Poland, Spain, and Italy, the least. Anti-immigrant attitudes are related to stronger in-group preferences among natives. Unexpectedly, non-Arabic minority daters belonging to large-size communities have strong preferences for Europeans. The results have implications for immigrant integration policies and demonstrate that Internet dating allows efficient selection by racial divisions, perpetuating country-specific racial inequalities.

Lawsuit against dating site for married people seeking affairs dismissed

The legal battle between a Canadian dating site for married people seeking affairs and a former employee who claimed she was injured typing up fake profiles of women has come to an end.
The dispute began when Silva — who came to Toronto from Brazil — sued her former employer in 2012, alleging she seriously hurt her wrists and forearms typing up 1,000 "fake female profiles" over a few weeks for a new Portuguese-language version of the site.
http://www.windsorstar.com/Lawsuit+against+dating+site+married+people+seeking+affairs+dismissed/10739469/story.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ashley-madison-adultery-website-ex-employee-lawsuits-dismissed-1.2917076

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/ashleymadison-linked-to-murder-case-but.html
2 tips about Ashley Madison's "Ashley’s Angels"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/2-tips-about-ashley-madisons-ashleys.html

As usual, They can win in Court but they could be incinerated by Journalists or killed by power of word of mouth!

About Interview With RSVP & Oasis Active's CEO.

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2015/01/interview-with-rsvp-oasis-actives-ceo-dave-heysen.html

old women at AmorenLinea
https://www.amorenlinea.com/es/member/blanca140
https://www.amorenlinea.com/es/member/dalin%C3%A9
https://www.amorenlinea.com/es/member/dubravkamadura

then see all other old women suggested.
Something strange? LOTS of OLD women overrepresented?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Argentina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Argentina_population_pyramid_2009.svg

Please see: UPDATE about AshleyMadison (Avid Life Media) fake profiles issue
Doriana Silva, ex-employee from AshleyMadison kept copies of her work and training materials and turned them over to her lawyer to use as evidence in trial. [AshleyMadison sued by ex-worker who claims she wrote too many fake female profiles.]

How to detect fake profiles in Argentina & Uruguay
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/how-to-detect-fake-profiles-in.html

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Bad press for Skout in Argentina / man murdered

in blind date (Summer time, January 2015 in South America)
Not sure the real age of the victim. Latest report from Crónica says 17 years old teen.
http://www.cronica.com.ar/article/details/23091/pibe-asesinado-en-quilmes-habia-ido-a-una-cita-a-ciegas
Previous reports said 27 years old man
http://www.elpais.com.uy/mundo/cita-pactada-redes-sociales-argentina.html
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1760944-asesinaron-a-un-hombre-que-iba-a-una-cita-organizada-por-una-red-social
http://www.clarin.com/policiales/cita-pactada-social-mataron-balazos_0_1286871505.html
http://www.infobae.com/2015/01/17/1621429-quilmes-arreglo-una-cita-ciegas-una-red-social-y-lo-mataron
http://www.diarioveloz.com/notas/137910-arreglo-una-cita-ciegas-una-red-social-y-lo-terminaron-matando
http://tn.com.ar/policiales/fue-a-encontrarse-con-una-chica-que-conocio-en-una-red-social-y-lo-mataron_563100

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

Friday, January 16, 2015

Zoosk Lays Off 15% Of Staff

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/dating-service-zoosk-lays-off-15-of-staff-company-confirms/

Zoosk UPDATE. New IPO plan.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/zoosk-update-new-ipo-plan.html

Zoosk to run out of money soon? Zoosk IPO delayed?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/zoosk-to-run-out-of-money-soon-zoosk.html

Immoral dating sites to be replaced by marriage sites in Iran

http://www.nst.com.my/node/69826

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2911412/Iran-combat-immoral-dating-official-marriage-site.html

http://tribune.com.pk/story/822209/iran-to-combat-immoral-dating-with-official-marriage-site/

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

I would recommend to develop (construct and validate) a copycat of the 16PF normative personality test in Persian (Farsi) language.

Quite similar to:
"The relationship between personality traits (16PF) and marital adjustment in women"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/new-paper-relationship-between.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahreza
and
AN EXAMINATION OF THE FACTOR STRUCTURE OF CATTELLS 16 PERSONALITY FACTOR QUESTIONNAIRE (16-PE-E) IN AHVAZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvaz
http://en.journals.sid.ir/ViewPaper.aspx?ID=3691

THESIS Personalized POI Recommendation on Location-Based Social Networks

http://www.public.asu.edu/~hgao16/papers/Dissertation_HuijiGao.pdf

Please see:
Collaborative Filtering: User Similarity in Slope One Algorithm
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/collaborative-filtering-user-similarity.html

Are there any use cases of social network-based Recommender systems?
and
What is the currrent work going in the recommendation system?

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!
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!

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

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Affinitas GmbH. German company moved its servers to USA!

http://myip.ms/info/whois/23.3.233.230/k/1704063194/website/elitesingles.co.uk

http://myip.ms/info/whois/23.3.233.230/k/830706328/website/edarling.de

http://myip.ms/browse/sites/1/ipID/23.3.233.230/ipIDii/23.3.233.230

From Germany to USA?
Is Affinitas GmbH. going to be sold?

Please read:
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/elitesingles-received-redesign.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/more-juicy-information-from-affinitas.html

Article at Vator: The USD1B valuation club became super crowded in 2014

http://vator.tv/news/2015-01-14-the-1b-valuation-club-became-super-crowded-in-2014

With valuations jumping so high, the USD1 billion club is getting easier and easier to get into. In 2014 alone, 38 different companies entered the USD1 billion club, according to a report from CB Insights. That is more than the three previous years, when only 22 companies made it combined
https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/billion-dollar-valuation-startups-2014/

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.
Please see: 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
Many companies had been operating at a loss for years!!! They will never be profitable.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/incredible-uber-raises-another-usd12.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/article-vc-funding-falls-30-tech-ipos.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/pinterest-raises-new-round-of-usd-200.html