Wednesday, October 31, 2018

about article "Wake-up Call, eHarmony Sold For A Song"




https://internetdating.typepad.com/files/acquisition_eharmony.pdf
https://internetdating.typepad.com/courtland_brooks/2018/10/wake-up-call-eharmony-sold-for-a-song.html



eHarmony's CEO Discusses Artifical Intelligence ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/eharmonys-ceo-discusses-artifical.html
It is all a HOAX, a FRAUD.

He mistakes Artifical Intelligence with a Behavioural Recommender System!


eHarmony should be closed forever for fraud!
The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is ONLY a 18+  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
It is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use the Big Five normative test in year 2018. 
  eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles / SilverSingles 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.,
Marrily in India
and
LemonSwan in Germany and other countries. 

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


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 

     
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
    

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

eHarmony's CEO Discusses Artifical Intelligence ?


https://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2018/10/eharmonys-ceo-discusses-artifical-intelligence.html

It is all a HOAX, a FRAUD.

He mistakes Artifical Intelligence with a Behavioural Recommender System!


eHarmony sold for USD 85 Million (via Financial Times)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/eharmony-sold-for-usd-85million-via.html


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Chief Scientist At eHarmony Cavorts With The ... Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/about-chief-scientist-at-eharmony.html
My bet: He is copycatting WATSON IBM, in same manner as Dr. Galen Buckwalter did (Soulmates.ai), but Buckwalter used the HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)

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

 
eHarmony is investing in machine learning to make smarter matches???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/04/eharmony-is-investing-in-machine.html


eHarmony should be closed forever for fraud!
The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is ONLY a 18+  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
It is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use the Big Five normative test in year 2018. 
  eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles / SilverSingles 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.,
Marrily in India
and
LemonSwan in Germany and other countries. 

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

Monday, October 29, 2018

eHarmony sold for USD 85 Million (via Financial Times)


https://www.ft.com/content/84a6df02-db5f-11e8-8f50-cbae5495d92b
https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2018/10/29/eharmony-sells-to-german-broadcaster.html
https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/prosiebensat-1-buys-online-dating-site-eharmony-1203006892/


Please remember: 
The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is ONLY a 18+  years old obsolete site, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Five Factor Model aka 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 2018) 

eHarmony is investing in machine learning to make smarter matches???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/04/eharmony-is-investing-in-machine.html

EliteSingles review via Mashable / June 2018
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/elitesingles-review-via-mashable-june.html  


eHarmony 2007 - 2018 research: Computational Courtship:
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/eharmony-2007-2018-research.html

LemonSwan Fünf-Faktoren-Modell == Five Factor Model
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/04/lemonswan-funf-faktoren-modell-five.html



Parship and ElitePartner: old, obsolete sites and frauds.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/parship-elite-group-gmbh-2015-financials.html


 
------------------------------
The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-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

Saturday, October 27, 2018

PAPER: RecSys Challenge 2018: playlist continuation based on


shared neighborhood-methods, matrix factorization and audio-feature classification
https://asciico.de/assets/archive/papers/blauensteiner-metz-advanced-data-challenge-report.pdf

Please see also "about 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/about-12th-acm-conference-on.html


and notice Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not see, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
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.

 
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 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

PAPER: BlindDate recommender: A context-aware ontology-based dating recommendation platform


http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165551518806114


Online dating could be worth USD 12 Billion — and it's all thanks to Tinder ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/online-dating-could-be-worth-usd-12.html



Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
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.

 
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 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, October 26, 2018

SA article about MTCH continues to fire on all cylinders???



https://seekingalpha.com/article/4214767-one-likes-admit-wrong-match-buy-40-percent-potential-upside
Please see: SA article: Match Group's 'Boom Times' Look Like They Are Over
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/sa-article-match-groups-boom-times-look.html


MTCH is mostly owned by IAC.
IAC is controlled by one man, Mr. Barry Diller.

For me it is clear they do not want to innovate.
They want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the daters.

 
Bumble Owner (Badoo) Targets Nasdaq IPO to Become World’s Top Matchmaker
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/bumble-owner-badoo-targets-nasdaq-ipo.html

 
Online dating could be worth USD 12 Billion — and it's all thanks to Tinder ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/online-dating-could-be-worth-usd-12.html

Episode: Science Vs. Online Dating: Can Science Find You Love?



https://www.wbez.org/shows/science-vs/online-dating-can-science-find-you-love/77d81f2b-71b9-4132-81a0-3775caa8cb51

Please see: PAPER: Dating gone mobile: Demographic and personality-based correlates of using smartphone-based dating applications among emerging adults
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/paper-dating-gone-mobile-demographic.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

about article Does Facebook know enough about us to play cupid?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/about-article-does-facebook-know-enough.html


“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html

Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views". 

Thursday, October 25, 2018

PAPER: Dating gone mobile: Demographic and personality-based correlates


of using smartphone-based dating applications among emerging adults

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444818804773


Please remember: 
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.

 
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 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, October 16, 2018

[New Infographic] Online dating around the world, via GWI


https://www.globalwebindex.com/hubfs/Downloads/Online-dating-across-the-world-infographic.pdf

Online dating could be worth USD 12 Billion — and it's all thanks to Tinder ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/online-dating-could-be-worth-usd-12.html


NEW and FRESH Online Dating Market 2017 (via Statista)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/new-and-fresh-online-dating-market-2017.html

  


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.

 
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 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

Monday, October 15, 2018

Spark Networks USA, LLC will pay USD 500,000 in penalties

and up to USD985,000 in restitution to customers whose subscriptions automatically renewed
https://patch.com/california/santamonica/online-dating-company-pay-500k-fines-auto-payments

California updates dating services contract law to include sites like Match and eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/california-updates-dating-services.html

Tinder must stop charging its older USA California users more for “Plus” features
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/02/tinder-must-stop-charging-its-older-usa.html

California updates dating services contract law to include sites like Match and eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/10/california-updates-dating-services.html


Info about Spark Networks (LOV) via Maran Partners Q2 2018
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/info-about-spark-networks-lov-via-maran.html

Spark Networks Releases H1 2018 Losses
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/spark-networks-releases-h1-2018-losses.html

Happily married ex-BBC producer was notified that his photos had been used on EliteSingles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/03/happily-married-ex-bbc-producer-was.html

 
Spark Networks USA, LLC deserves a better and deeper investigation.
FYI: EliteSingles and SilverSingles powered by Spark Networks are solely bad copycats of eHarmony.
They use the Big Five normative personality test to assess personality of their members, but The Five Factor Model aka 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 2018) 
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/03/paper-sixth-personality-domain-that-is.html




Saturday, October 13, 2018

DatePlay new version coming soon: It is code to say GAME OVER


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

First look: DatePlay, a new dating app / Nothing new or innovative!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/first-look-dateplay-new-dating-app.html

 
DatePlay, a couple of months to develop an Android version?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/02/dateplay-couple-of-months-to-develop.html

Crown, a new app from Match Group, turns dating into a game
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/crown-new-app-from-match-group-turns.html



Please see: 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

Online dating could be worth USD 12 Billion — and it's all thanks to Tinder ???



https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/match-group-stock-price-online-dating-could-be-worth-12-billion-tinder-2018-10-1027612979


Bumble Owner (Badoo) Targets Nasdaq IPO to Become World’s Top Matchmaker
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/bumble-owner-badoo-targets-nasdaq-ipo.html





lot of acquisitions, (but) Match Group is still small
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/lot-of-acquisitions-but-match-group-is.html

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2015/01/some-online-dating-market-reports.html


NEW and FRESH Online Dating Market 2017 (via Statista)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/new-and-fresh-online-dating-market-2017.html

 
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.
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 key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
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.

 
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 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

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

about 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems



Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018

http://www.recsyschallenge.com/2018/
https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/
http://www.recsyschallenge.com/2018/#program

Please see also
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/eharmony-2007-2018-research.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/05/paper-improved-collaborative-filtering.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/09/tinder-will-use-spotify-to-show-your.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/09/proceedings-of-4th-workshop-on-emotions.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/09/human-computer-interaction-hci-for.html


and notice Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-comparative-study-of-people-to_14.html  

They need to calculate personality similarity between users but there are different formulas to calculate similarity.

In case you did not see, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years, with low success rates until now because they mostly use the Big Five model to assess personality and the Pearson correlation coefficient to calculate similarity.
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
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.

 
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 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, October 9, 2018

Match Group Underestimated Tinder ???



http://fortune.com/2018/10/09/match-group-tinder-sean-rad-lawsuit/
https://www.axios.com/match-group-fires-back-at-tinder-1539111319-6803a828-bd67-4a79-9936-9c9607a5b45b.html

Match Group Is The Best Online Dating Bet
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4210536-match-group-best-online-dating-bet

Four Tinder plaintiffs drop out of lawsuit because Match might have quietly changed their contracts ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/four-tinder-plaintiffs-drop-out-of.html

about article: Dallas-based Match Group's bumpy road to the top of online dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/about-article-dallas-based-match-groups.html


The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-journalist-who-provoked-wrath-of.html



A (false) STORY behind TINDER - VisualPolitik EN



http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2018/10/internet-dating-the-story-so-far.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsD6EAsvI0s
When Match Group (fka IAC Personals) bought OKCupid (several years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission.
IAC / Match Group "acquired" HatchLabs to "develop" Tinder copycat of Badoo in 2012.
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2011/07/match-wants-facebook-profiles-and-how/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110608233059/https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/okcupid-acquistion-was-50-million-40-million-earn-out/
Then in 2014, Badoo backed Bumble, to fight back Tinder. Perhaps only as revenge against Match Group! No more than that. 



https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/mirror-article-scientists-develop-ai.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/03/now-bumble-is-suing-match-group-for-usd.html


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.

 
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 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, October 6, 2018

some NEW online dating papers



Are Tinder and Dating Apps Changing Dating and Mating in the USA?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95540-7_6

Facial and self‐report questionnaire measures capture different aspects of romantic partner preferences
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12347

Online Dating: Changing Intimacy One Swipe at a Time?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95540-7_4


The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
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.



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