https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/someone-scraped-40000-tinder-selfies-to-make-a-facial-dataset-for-ai-experiments/
Match Group, Inc. (MTCH) Astronomical compensations to their C-level executives
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/match-group-inc-mtch-astronomical.html
Astronomical
compensations to their C-level executives but not going to innovate and
revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
Also Match Group, Inc. (MTCH) is solely controlled by IAC.
It is said the main business of Badoo is the spyware business!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/the-hackers-hacked-badoo-2-june-2016.html
BI article: The reclusive CEO of dating app Badoo on his app's redesign
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/bi-article-reclusive-ceo-of-dating-app.html
Last
May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites
for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html
"Using Big Data To Improve Lives As Well As Profits"
https://ieondemand.com/presentations/using-big-data-to-improve-lives-as-well-as-profits
The Greatest Adventure / Love in the Time of Tinder
https://events.iai.tv/life/the-greatest-adventure
Silly humour surveys from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/silly-humour-surveys-from-eharmony.html
eHarmony Mapping Love with Hadoop ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-mapping-love-with-hadoop.html
Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html
eHarmony is a 16+ years old obsolete site. The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is only supported by a big marketing budget and not by serious scientific evidence.
The
Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as
an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of
persons.
eHarmony's algorithm
is in the range of showing you 3 most compatible persons per 1,000
persons screened, and with the 16PF5 you can reach 3 most compatible persons per 100,000 persons screened; a 100 times more powerful
algorithm (NOT 100% improvement, a 100 X improvement, really an innovation)
Another HOAX: Dating app uses machine learning to find your most compatible partner
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/another-hoax-dating-app-uses-machine.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!!!
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.
- 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 Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"
Please read: 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
Equity interest in %
Affinitas GmbH, Berlin 21.9 %
Affinitas Phantom share GmbH, Berlin 34.4 %
Affinitas GmbH. 2014 financials. Revenue and Net Loss? (Affinitas Phantom Share GmbH.)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/affinitas-gmbh-2014-financials-revenue_30.html
EliteSingles / eDarling sites are only copycats of eHarmony.
A prospective client will not perceive eDarling / EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/edarling-chile-and-edarling-mexico.html
7ft 7in British actor; the UK's tallest man, dies of heart failure, aged 36 / Please compare with EliteSingles UK and USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/7ft-7in-british-actor-uks-tallest-man.html
EliteSingles USA compared to tallest 2 active USA NBA players 221 cm (7 ft 3 in).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/elitesingles-usa-compared-to-tallest-2.html
eHarmony's sites are 3 times bigger in active users and revenue than EliteSingles's sites.
And
worse, Affinitas GmbH. can not beat and will never beat eHarmony Inc.
in United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and United States.
There is a WAR between eHarmony Inc. and Affinitas GmbH. (EliteSingles / eDarling sites, copycats of eHarmony)
eHarmony is a 16+ years old obsolete site. The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is only supported by a big marketing budget and not by serious scientific evidence.
The
Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as
an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of
persons.
-------------------------
Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html
eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK,
Chile, Mexico; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia; also TeAmo in
Russia is another copycat of eHarmony; esync (eSynchrony) in Singapore,
MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc. and Marrily in India.
FORM DEF 14A | Proxy Statement (definitive)
https://seekingalpha.com/filing/3522767
Astronomical
compensations to their C-level executives but not going to innovate and
revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
Also Match Group, Inc. (MTCH) is solely controlled by IAC.
Please see:
A
man who paid premiums to access A-list dating prospects, only to find
out most were dead ends, is suing the company behind OKCupid, accusing
the company of setting him and other users up to get stiffed.
Match Group responded and said the bad profiles were the result of a software bug.
LAWSUIT Chad Perkins et al. v. Match Group Inc. et al., case number 1:17-cv-2988
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/lawsuit-chad-perkins-et-al-v-match.html
Several
complaints about Match dot com suggest ... database is full of old
& inactive profiles, scammers, fake profiles, etc!
Perhaps Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. ???
Last
May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites
for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/match.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pof.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/okcupid.com
https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/category/people-and-society/relationships-and-dating
https://www.similarweb.com/website/pof.com#overview
https://www.similarweb.com/website/okcupid.com#overview
https://www.similarweb.com/website/match.com#overview
Alexa
shows an inverse spike after 2017 New Year's Eve for several online
dating sites including Match, PlentyOfFish, Zoosk, eHarmony,
EliteSingles and many more!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/inverse-spike-after-new-years-eve-via.html
http://bizwest.com/2017/04/26/dating-app-uses-machine-learning-find-compatible-partner/
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2017/04/20/say-allo-wants-to-be-amazon-for-dating-by-using-ai-machine-learning-to-offer-singles-better-matches/
It is a HOAX, a fraud.
Please notice: the most compatible person with you could be more compatible with other person right now that is not you!
E.G:
“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”
Soon the team will learn thanks to machine learning, The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development:
I) Several studies showing 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"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
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 !
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"
Please read: 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
in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
It is not only OKCupid, USA Better Business Bureau gives Match.com "F" rating.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/it-is-not-only-okcupid-usa-better.html
OkCupid user: Premium service matched me with 'dead' profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/new-lawsuit-against-match-group-inc.html A
man who paid premiums to access A-list dating prospects, only to find
out most were dead ends, is suing the company behind OKCupid, accusing
the company of setting him and other users up to get stiffed.
Match Group responded and said the bad profiles were the result of a software bug.
Article by female Journalist: Dirty tricks from Match?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3191461/From-automatically-renewing-subscriptions-secretly-boosting-profiles-dating-sites-use-cynical-tricks-stop-leaving.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/article-by-female-journalist-dirty.html
UK Journalist Melissa Kite, 43, tried online dating after being single for six months.
After no success she decided to cancel her subscription.
When she tried to cancel suspiciously eligible men began contacting her.
Some years ago: Class Action Calls Match a 'Scam' / More than 90% of potential dates are "phantoms," suit charges
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/class-action-calls-match-scam.html
And Match won a lawsuit in court, but .... most probably they will be "killed" by the power of word of mouth!
Several
complaints about Match dot com suggest ... database is full of old
& inactive profiles, scammers, fake profiles, etc!
Perhaps Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. ???
How Alexa shows BBC of London UK incinerated Cupid PLC.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/how-alexa-shows-bbc-of-london-uk.html
and some time ago The power of word of mouth killed Be2!
During 2008, a lawsuit against Parship in Belgium about "pratiques commerciales trompeuses" forced Parship to disclose how many paid members it had in Belgium (Parship lied about their customers; 80.000 announced, 5.004 in reality, a 6.25% conversion rate, the same to say over 93% inactive profiles!!! )
During January 2011, former CEO of Match LATAM Countries recognized 75% inactive profiles at Match Argentina.
http://themarketmogul.com/coffee-meets-bagel-gale-shapley-algorithm/
Hilarious interview from CoffeeMeetsBagel founders (they should rebrand to BagelMeetsSausages)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/hilarius-interview-from.html
Five years and cannot take off. Only burning money from investors.
Please remember:
stable marriage as an economic function (as a complex mental process) is a HOAX.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/bbc-article-science-behind-online.html
They propose: a stable marriage can be predicted using mainly Gale_Shapley algorithm, General Equilibrium Theory and Non_cooperative Game Theory.
The Gale-Shapley algorithm is not good enough to solve the stable marriage problem because is based on initial preferences (attraction, fantasies, infatuation) and does not take into account temporal patterns of relationship variables.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/05/flawed-papers.html
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
FAILED and BIASED article "Mathematician reveals formula to find a perfect mate"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/failed-and-biased-article-mathematician.html
"The one" or "the perfect match" does not exist.
It will only exist a pool of compatible persons, not more than that.
They can not promise "the one" or a "perfect match".
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-how-successful-is-digital.html
Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.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
https://globalvoices.org/2017/04/25/russian-authorities-want-easy-access-to-online-dating-logs/
"The Badoo dating network will soon be added to Russia's federal list of “information disseminators,” ..... This means that the dating site will be required to keep servers in Russia, where all Russian users’ data will be stored, so that the Federal Security Service and local law enforcement can have easier access to user data and communications logs.
"This may present a challenge for Badoo. Although the 11-year-old company was founded by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev, the business is registered in Cyprus and headquartered in London."
I agree, it is said the main business of Badoo is the spyware business!
BI article: The reclusive CEO of dating app Badoo on his app's redesign
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/bi-article-reclusive-ceo-of-dating-app.html
TeAmo in Russia is another copycat of eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/stupid-investors-series-today-teamoru.html
Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling) under fraud investigation in Russia.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/affinitas-gmbh-edarling-under-fraud.html
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4065154-rocket-internets-rckzf-oliver-samwer-q4-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
Rocket Internet losses triple in 2016
https://www.ft.com/content/d68c8a2d-982a-335a-9d41-f38ca9a4b735
https://www.ft.com/content/51905fce-2983-11e7-9ec8-168383da43b7
It is clear they have plenty of cash to burn, perhaps no more than that!
Many if not most, USA, Canadian or European businesses models are unfeasible in Latin American countries, African countries, Russia or even Australia because transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than in Europe.
All European countries fit in Brazil, Russia, Africa or Australia.
It means: 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 compared to Europe!
All the domino should fall ... when they run out of money!
Kinnevik has finally lost patience. Rocket Internet SE Loses Biggest Investor
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/kinnevik-has-finally-lost-patience.html
Rocket Internet. / All ventures are created using a complex system of shell companies. /
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/rocket-internet-ag-all-ventures-are.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/rocket-internet-se-has-euros-17-billion.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/riding-rocket-article-by-leila-abboud.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/ft-article-shares-in-rocket-internet.html
Rocket Internet SE: Der Fall Ikarus
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/rocket-internet-se-der-fall-ikarus.html
