some screenshots POF spanish version

The Spanish version is really bad, a mess, all the site is like if it was patched several times.
Some texts are really Tarzanic translations from English.
Other pages have text in Spanish mixed with English.

Bebo founders, shareholders sue owner for destroying site

Bebo founders, shareholders sue owner for destroying site

Remember AOL bought Bebo in 2008 for a stratospheric USD850 million.

This will be a case of study, the same could happen with some online dating sites.

traffic rank from eHarmony

sudden drop

Jazzed, launched August 2010.

Jazzed, launched August 2010.
the failed free social dating site from eHarmony

It is entirely free
It is social
It is intended to search
but failed

Some time ago, January 2009, the IAC (Match/Chemistry) had launched and closed a free dating site named DownToEarth (then rebranded to STiR and closed).
The owners of the free online dating site PlentyOfFish had launched by September 2010 a paid site called eVow and failed.


Is there a curse in the online dating industry?
free sites can not launch paid sites and success.
paid sites can not launch free sites and success.

Is it a coincidence that just the most popular post on this blog is?. guess "Jazzed (eHarmony) & eVow (PlentyOfFish)"

new proposal, soon

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

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that 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.
The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 7.0 * 10E9
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557% +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

Stupid investors' series: today TheCompleteMe

Social dating is illusory/vaporware for serious daters looking for a long term relationship with commitment.

Thecompleteme is an online social dating company founded by a former VP Match who is not an entrepreneur; he is only a "marketinero", a smoke seller, but he can not innovate in nothing. It is not going to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

My bet: they are going to make some noise, peak and decay when they run out of money.

There is a plethora of Social Dating sites like Badoo; HowAboutWe, Zoosk in decadence since months, others failed like SmartDate, Zingl, Engage (then rebranded to Ignighter group dating), Thread, Triangulate, Gelato (then rebranded to Twnty), WooMe, 12Like, LittleHint.

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.

The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

over 23,000,000 victims of big human experiment

Online Dating from PlentyOfFish: Over 23,000,000 victims of big human experiment with unprecedented consequences?