Monday, February 29, 2016

MeetMe Reports Record Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA, and Net Income for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015

http://seekingalpha.com/pr/16338116-meetme-reports-record-revenue-adjusted-ebitda-net-income-fourth-quarter-full-year-2015

MeetMe's (MEET) CEO Geoff Cook on Q4 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3941416-meetmes-meet-ceo-geoff-cook-q4-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

MeetMe: Where People Meet And Investors Make Money
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3920606-meetme-people-meet-investors-make-money


SA article MeetMe's (MEET) CEO Geoffrey Cook on Q3 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/sa-article-meetmes-meet-ceo-geoffrey.html

article "Can MeetMe Translate User Growth Into Sustained Profits?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-can-meetme-translate-user.html


My bet: Only a short term success. 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".


Badoo and Zoosk - Zoosk and Badoo. Both redesigned?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/badoo-and-zoosk-zoosk-and-badoo-both.html
Recent MTCH group IPO Raises Questions About Privacy / IAC
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/recent-mtch-group-ipo-raises-questions.html

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Tinder users don't recognise serial killers and swipe right

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35653628/tinder-users-dont-recognise-serial-killers-and-swipe-right


Recent MTCH group IPO Raises Questions About Privacy / IAC
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/recent-mtch-group-ipo-raises-questions.html

Recent MTCH group IPO Raises Questions About Privacy / IAC

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-alexander/recent-online-dating-comp_b_9307742.html

(IAC) (MTCH) Privacy Issues Could Kill Match Group (via OPW)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/iac-mtch-privacy-issues-could-kill.html


The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe, PlentyOfFish and many more are past their primes, reached operating ceiling and they are in decadence.

Moreover, Tinder will not monetize as expected and it is cannibalizing Match.
Tinder can collapse like Skout (problems with minors using it).
Also Tinder is in war with other online dating application: Bumble backed by Badoo.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/sa-article-swipe-left-or-swipe-right-to.html

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Stupid Investors Series, Today: eCift PART2





from part1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/stupid-investors-series-today-ecift.html

http://venturecapital.de/portfolio-item/ecift/



"eCift is Parship simplified and rebranded for the Turkish market.Nor eCift nor Parship are going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, they BOTH are OBSOLETE and a HOAX."  I said more than 4 years ago. I was right!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/compatibility-2013-explained-by-parship.html

Also eDarling GAME OVER in Turkey!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/confirmed-edarling-game-over-in-turkey.html

Oakley Capital has NO experience at all in the Online Dating Industry. Not sure why they had acquired those rotten companies?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/will-elitepartner-parship-merge.html 

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The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

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 !

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Nanaya, another HOAX, FRAUD part 2 of 2











from part 1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/nanaya-another-hoax-fraud-part-1-of-2.html 


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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".

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.

but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”


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


The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

Nanaya, another HOAX, FRAUD part 1 of 2

I agree that 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.















Who independently validated and independently certified the "personality test" used at Nanaya?

It is home grown! It is not peer reviewed or published in any Scientific Paper. 
Please remember normative tests can not be simply translated, because you need the norm for those tests, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released.


part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/nanaya-another-hoax-fraud-part-2-of-2.html

See 12like, visualDNA and a HOAX
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/06/12like-visualdna-and-hoax.html




Monday, February 22, 2016

Venntro CEO Ross Williams Appears On BBC Business Live ?

"During the interview, Williams regards Venntro as the “UK equivalent” to The Match Group, owners of Tinder, Match and OkCupid.
Venntro is responsible for providing the software used by 25,000 companies to create their own dating services, as well as its own portfolio on dating brands."

http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/02/11/venntro-ceo-ross-williams-appears-on-bbc-business-live/
 

25,000 companies ?If any of you can investigate a deep further please?

Fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond AshleyMadison
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/fake-profiles-are-wooing-lonely-hearts.html

Photos from the 43rd International Internet Dating Conference


http://www.idate2016.com/eventphotos-miami-2016.php
It took place on January 25 - 27, 2016 in Miami. The 13th Annual iDate2016 in Miami was the largest collection of dating industry executives and professionals at one time each year. It was the most successful event for the industry. Hundreds of online dating industry professionals, matchmakers, mobile developers, software providers, marketing / advertising firms, venture capitalists, affiliate managers, payment processors, background search companies and affiliates were in attendance.


Same as From iDate2004 to iDate2013 / FINAL CONCLUSIONS
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.html
 
 

Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish. 
Year over year the same scratched disk,
They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
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.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/tinder-eharmony-and-zoosk-win-idate2016.html
eHarmony, is a 15+++ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget. The Big Five normative test 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.
 

Sunday, February 21, 2016

PAPER "There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea:



PAPER "There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea: The Effects of Choice Overload and Reversibility on Online Daters' Satisfaction With Selected Partners"

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15213269.2015.1121827

Abstract
Online dating is often lauded for improving the dating experience by giving singles large pools of potential partners from whom to choose. This experiment investigates how the number of choices online daters are given, and whether these choices are reversible, affects romantic outcomes. Drawing on the choice overload and decision reversibility theoretical frameworks, we show that, a week after making their selection, online daters who chose from a large set of potential partners (i.e., 24) were less satisfied with their choice than those who selected from a small set (i.e., 6), and were more likely to change their selection. While choice reversibility did not affect daters’ satisfaction, those who selected from a large pool and had the ability to reverse their choice were the least satisfied with their selected partner after one week. The results advance understanding of how media features related to choice affect interpersonal evaluations.


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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".

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.

but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”


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


The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html


Saturday, February 20, 2016

ElevatedCareers by eHarmony PART 3 of 3. (It overpromises)

From part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-part-2-of-3.html










ElevatedCareers by eHarmony promises more that what it can really offer.
The 16PF5 normative personality test, can predict better your job performance.


Please see:
USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html  

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/ft-article-online-dating-swipe-left.html
 

Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html

article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html 



ElevatedCareers by eHarmony PART 2 of 3. (It overpromises)

From part 1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-part-1-of-3.html













ElevatedCareers by eHarmony promises more that what it can really offer.
The 16PF5 normative personality test, can predict better your job performance.

 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/11/entrepreneurship-and-personality-traits.html

(Screenshots) To continue in part 3
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-part-3-of-3.html