DoskonalaPara "new" test & features.

Last year, March 2011, I had reviewed DoskonalaPara.

DoskonalaPara claims:
"our test
The main goal of the portal was to provide our users with the tools for precise and quick to find true love.
For these reasons, invited the psychologist George Utnika Radoslaw,  who created us specifically for the test. It consists of 35 questions, after completion, the user receives an accurate description of his personality. It is then compared to other users.  In addition, take into account the expectations of the future  union, a common housekeeping, leisure, work or family. The combination of personality and expectations gives amazing results, so users can easily find the love of his life."

DoskonalaPara is another HOAX in the Online Dating Industry, with any Scientific Proof (uses an IPSATIVE personality test) like Chemistry.

Now relaunches imitating Badoo!

Spark Networks, Inc Q1 2012 Highlights

Average paying subscribers increase 36% to 241,000

Revenue ended March 31, 2012 USD 14.6 Million
Net Loss USD 1.7 Million

Spark Networks: years without innovating and drawing balance sheets! C level executives receive high salaries, shareholders receive losses.

Tastebuds, another HOAX

Tastebuds is a HOAX, if you like song A and other woman likes song A also, that does not mean you and that woman like each other. Moreover profiling by music preferences to assess personality
video preferences to assess personality
color preferences to assess personality
bookmarks preferences to assess personality
handwriting analysis to assess personality
purchases and buying trends from credit cards to assess personality
and other methods like them
add a lot of distortion to the measurement.


See also:
 Auralist: Introducing Serendipity into Music Recommendation.

ASoundMatch and Behavioural Recommender Systems 

The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created.
There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms like ISO 9001:2008 for customer service, except for the Indian company Shaadi.
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%).

C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company's long term strategy and innovations.

The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
The biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are precisely marketing executives from big sites. They use credit card billing trickery.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites. Or launching new ones with the same stupidities as the old ones.


The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
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. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
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.

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.

4 German Dating Sites invented SPIN

4 German Dating Sites invented SPIN  (Seriöse Partnersuche im Internet)

If they would had certified ISO9001:2008 like Shaadi they would had no need to invent SPIN.

IQ Elite relaunches, imitates Badoo

Please remember IQ tests are ability tests, answers could be Right or Wrong, so the questions should be sorted in increasing difficulty forming a Rasch Hierarchy. Those IQ tests sould be constructed using Modern Test Theory / Item Response Theory (IRT).
Intelligent Elite, Brainiac Dating, IQ Gorgeous and others like them DO NOT meet IRT, they are all ... rubbish.

Moreover Intelligent Elite claims:
Compatibilidad Científica
¡Nuestro servicio de compatibilidad científica utiliza tus criterios y nuestro algoritmo para ofrecerte las mejores coincidencias! El servicio se adapta y aprende acerca de tus preferencias con el tiempo.
translated as:
Scientific Compatibility
Our scientific compatibility service uses your criteria and our algorithm to bring you the best matches! The service adapts and learns about your preferences over time.
That is a HOAX, they don not have any scientific proof.
Moreover: In a previous post I had reviewed IQ tests for dating
Intelligent Elite offers the Swiss 16PT, an adapted Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) ipsative test (not to be mistaken with the normative 16PF5)

new federal regs and recent court decisions

New federal regs and recent court decisions are about to affect all US online subscription, membership site and email publishers. 


Subscription Site Insider is running an exclusive, new webinar next Tuesday May 15 starring attorney Lisa Dubrow
She'll cover:
-  What a recent court ruling against WallStreetJournal means.
-  New FTC regulations regarding data, email opt-ins and privacy.
-  Why sites shouldn't say transactions are "safe and secure".
-  How privacy laws affect teen-aged customers.
-  Why sites may no longer be able to share attendee contacts with event or webinar sponsors.

SinglesBee is True rebranded.

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

CONFIRMED! The Return of the Living Dead again!
The people behind TRUE had duplicated TRUE as a free site and called it SinglesBee. There is no innovation.

The same with IAC, they had failed with DownToEarth then rebranded to sTir.
POF and OkCupid are freemium, they want daters to upgrade memberships. Purely free model is dead.