Saturday, September 30, 2017

Funny OPW article "Fraud :: The Bane Of The Dating Industry"


http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2017/09/fraud-the-bane-of-the-dating-industry-.html


about article: Online dating sucks because of the algorithms not the people
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/about-article-online-dating-sucks.html




Lack Of Innovation and 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.


Friday, September 29, 2017

It’s been a year since Hinge’s relaunch.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/09/29/hinges-ceo-says-vulnerability-not-an-algorithm-is-the-key-to-a-good-dating-app/

Hinge: A two old months interview where the CEO explains 
he can not beat Tinder and will waste over USD 20 Million ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/hinge-two-old-months-interview-where.html

Tinder, Match, Meetic, Ourtime, PlentyOfFish, MeetMe (MEET), Hinge, Happn, CoffeeMeetsBagel, OKCupid, Bumble, Zoosk, and many more: in a WAR between themselves, no one will win!


There's no evidence that (actual) matching algorithms work, Dr. Finkel says.  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/theres-no-evidence-that-actual-matching.html
article about "The next big thing in online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/article-about-next-big-thing-in-online.html



 

 

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.
 
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
   

 
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

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

There's no evidence that (actual) matching algorithms work, Dr. Finkel says.


http://www.businessinsider.com/best-dating-apps-according-to-psychologist-2017-9

Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797617714580
PLEASE NOTICE: Romantic Attraction AND Compatibility between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment ARE NOT THE SAME CONCEPTS!



Tinder is like an out of control machine gun shooting flowers (good for nothing, useless).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/after-5-years-of-tinder-whats-next-for.html
Badoo backed Bumble to fight back and destroy Tinder (last December 2014).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/bumble-serves-catfish-in-new-york-to.html

Please do not mistake "artificial intelligence" with
a proposal like it is or it was "Synapse, a behavioural recommender system"

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/vator-article-machine-learning-enters.html


Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html

NEW 2017 fresh paper "Assortative mating and couple similarity: Patterns, mechanisms, and consequences"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/new-2017-fresh-paper-assortative-mating.html


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Lack Of Innovation and 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.

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

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, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.


At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."


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"
 

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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 

  
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

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Vator article: Machine learning enters the online dating world

http://vator.tv/news/2017-09-26-machine-learning-enters-the-online-dating-world

Please do not mistake "artificial intelligence" with

a proposal like it is or it was "Synapse, a behavioural recommender system"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/match-groups-mtch-ceo-on-q2-2017.html

Badoo built its own big-data analytics platform
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/badoo-built-its-own-big-data-analytics.html


Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html

 
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 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

comScore 2017 LATAM Digital Future in Focus



http://www.comscore.com/lat/Prensa-y-Eventos/Presentaciones-y-libros-blancos/2017/2017-LATAM-Digital-Future-in-Focus

http://www.enter.co/cultura-digital/colombia-digital/2017-latam/

Desktop users increased in LATAM June 2016 - June 2017 (also in Europe)


Desktop is still alive.
It is not mobile only, it is multi-platform!

Mobile-first but not mobile-only.
comScore 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/comscore-2017-us-mobile-app-report.html


comScore 2016 Global Digital Future in Focus
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/comscore-2016-global-digital-future-in.html


featured article: Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/featured-article-mobile-app-startups.html

Monday, September 25, 2017

New editor for GDI ???



https://www.journalism.co.uk/media-jobs/editor/s75/a710557/

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Lack Of Innovation and 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.

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

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, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.


At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."


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 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

Friday, September 22, 2017

Some Remarks about Meet Group to acquire German Dating App LOVOO (via SA)






https://seekingalpha.com/article/4108692-meet-group-acquires-scandal-ridden-german-dating-app-loovoo-remarks

Lovoo's 2014 and 2015 financials from BundesAnzeiger
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
then search for Lovoo

The author of the article Henrik Alex, Contributor
said
Management concealed the most meaningful issues:

1) Fembot scandal
2) Subsequent severe revenue drop
3) Company stopped international expansion due to lack of success
4) Assumed debt


For me: Lovoo is now past its prime, and decadence will begin soon.

The Meet Group to Acquire LOVOO for (USD 65 + USD 5) Million via SA and GDI
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/the-meet-group-to-acquire-lovoo-for-usd.html

Thursday, September 21, 2017

DNARomance introduces chemistry to online dating through DNA analysis ???


http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3494123

"Our app is designed to combine analysis of DNA profiles and Myers–Briggs personality types of our members to forecast a prospective relationships compatibility and possibilities for true love."
MBTI (Myers–Briggs personality types) is an OBSOLETE IPSATIVE TEST
Please do not mistake the OBSOLETE IPSATIVE TEST MBTI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator
with the NORMATIVE Cattell 16PF test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16PF_Questionnaire


The Swiss 16PT is NOT the same as the 16PF5 test
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/the-swiss-16pt-is-not-same-as-16pf5-test.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/new-app-personality-match-tests-your.html


HOAX ALERT! Today: DNA Romance
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/hoax-alert-dna-romance.html

Unless they can prove their method 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 the members of the site: It is a HOAX, a big FRAUD. 


"Mr Right or Ms Right" OR The one or your soulmate or the perfect match does not exist!
It will only exist a pool of compatible persons, not more than that.
No online dating site can promise you to find "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfect match".
Moreover the person you are looking for does not exist or if it exist, he/she does not want to meet you because your are not compatible.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html
What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".

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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

SA article: Match Group +2.5% to new high as UBS sees gold in Tinder



https://seekingalpha.com/news/3296615-match-group-plus-2_5-percent-new-high-ubs-sees-gold-tinder

Tinder Gold: Perhaps it is only effervescence of the moment.


The Meet Group acquires German dating app for USD70M
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3296600-meet-group-acquires-german-dating-app-70m
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/the-meet-group-to-acquire-lovoo-for-usd.html

Tinder, Match, Meetic, Ourtime, PlentyOfFish, MeetMe (MEET), Hinge, Happn, CoffeeMeetsBagel, OKCupid, Bumble, Zoosk, and many more: in a WAR between themselves, no one will win!



What's Next For Internet Dating?
INNOVATIONS OF COURSE!

After 5 Years Of Tinder, What's Next For Internet Dating?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/after-5-years-of-tinder-whats-next-for.html

The Meet Group to Acquire LOVOO for (USD 65 + USD 5) Million via SA and GDI




https://seekingalpha.com/filing/3702005
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3296600-meet-group-acquires-german-dating-app-70m
https://globaldatinginsights.com/2017/09/20/the-meet-group-is-acquiring-lovoo-for-70m/


The deal comes just under a year after LOVOO paid a Euros 1.2 Million fine to end legal proceedings against the company after the dating brand’s offices were stormed by armed police in connection with allegations of customer deception.

Following the raid, LOVOO founder & CEO   resigned from his position at the company on 27th June 2016, and LOVOO then paid a Euros 1.2 Million fine to suspend all legal proceedings.

https://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/06/27/lovoo-ceo-founder-benjamin-bak-resigns-following-arrest/
https://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/09/30/lovoo-pay-e1-2m-fine-to-end-legal-proceedings-following-police-raid/



The Meet Group (MEET) Presentation At Canaccord Genuity 37th Annual Growth Conference
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/the-meet-group-meet-presentation-at.html

Chinese authorities seek to get tough on online dating scams with fresh move to target fake identities

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2112044/chinese-authorities-seek-get-tough-online-dating-scams-fresh-move

Compare to:
Male model forced to hire DETECTIVE to track fraudsters using his pics to date 40 women
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/male-model-forced-to-hire-detective-to.html


and remember also:
In the case of Yuliana Avalos and Melissa Midwest former 2014 big lawsuit againts Match Group, third-party scammers in Africa or wherever were creating fake profiles and catfishing with them.
IAC and Match Group were essentially aware of that situation and did nothing to stop it.
The USA Court ruled that IAC and Match Group were not responsible.
Attorney Evan Spencer, said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match Group failed to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that Yuliana Avalos's pictures were being used hundreds of times.
Yuliana Avalos has argued in a former 2014 big lawsuit against Match that photos of her were posted without her permission on the site as part of a scam that drove a man to commit suicide.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/plentyoffish-warning-after-womans-weird.html

When I was interviewed last January 2011, 6 LONG YEARS AGO, by "Caras y Caretas" (summer in Argentina) I thought there were going to be a big scandal, because former CEO of Match LATAM Countries recognized 75% inactive profiles at Match Argentina, but nothing happened. Soon or later, all online dating sites should scan all photos used in each and every profile!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/01/featured-in-caras-y-caretas-issue-n.html
 
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

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

eHarmony Hopes To Create Long-Term Relationships Across Its Business Units – And With Its User

https://adexchanger.com/advertiser/eharmony-hopes-create-long-term-relationships-across-business-units-users

about article: eHarmony has eyes for direct response on social
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/about-article-eharmony-has-eyes-for.html

Contradictory information from eHarmony and PROOF of FRAUD from the papers they had published using the OBSOLETE NORMATIVE PERSONALITY TEST BIG FIVE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/contradictory-information-from-eharmony.html

Proof eHarmony is intoxicated with "Big Data Analysis"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/proof-eharmony-is-intoxicated-with-big.html
Another FRAUD from eHarmony "What are the odds of love? Rachel Riley reveals all"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/another-fraud-from-eharmony-what-are.html  


eHarmony is a 17+ 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 and its copycats, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
Now it is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use it (year 2017)  
 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/work-life-balance-q-with-eharmony-ceo.html 


eHarmony is in big war with its copycat, EliteSingles since May 2012, after former eHarmony's CEO refused to fully acquire its mother company Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/coo-von-betreiber-affinitas-im-neuen.html
 


Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html

Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People





https://singularityhub.com/2017/09/19/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic-insights-can-help-us-become-better-people/
Dr. Galen Buckwalter talks about the HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)

article: Why Brands Need to Understand Personalities in Order to Leverage AI’s Potential
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/article-why-brands-need-to-understand.html
AI, former eHarmony's Chief Scientist and PsyML (machine learning and big data)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/ai-former-eharmonys-chief-scientist-and.html
Soulmates.ai launches to help brands find compatible influencers using AI
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/soulmatesai-launches-to-help-brands.html


The one or your soulmate or the perfect match does not exist!
It will only exist a pool of compatible persons, not more than that.
No online dating site can promise you to find "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfect match".
Moreover the person you are looking for does not exist or if it exist, he/she does not want to meet you because your are not compatible.

What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".

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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.


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"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo
 

PlentyOfFish (POF) Brings Dating To The Google Assistant

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/plenty-of-fish-brings-dating-to-the-google-assistant-300522018.html

compare to:
eHarmony and Alexa team up to make finding a date that much more weird ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/eharmony-and-alexa-team-up-to-make.html


What's Next For Internet Dating?
INNOVATIONS OF COURSE!

After 5 Years Of Tinder, What's Next For Internet Dating?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/after-5-years-of-tinder-whats-next-for.html