article "Critics challenge the 'science’ behind online dating"

http://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/Critics-challenge-the-science-behind-online-6115202.php

The writer and journalist Lori Gottlieb (March 2006) noted about the growing number of Internet dating sites that are using the science of attraction to match singles: "their efforts mark the early days of a social experiment of unprecedented proportions, involving millions of couples and possibly extending over the course of generations"
 
The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. 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 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%). In the same range as searching by your own. It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".


Please see:
Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html

article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html
 

The 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Vienna, Austria, 16th-20th September 2015
http://recsys.acm.org/recsys15/

Please remember:
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. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry.

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.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. 

Snap Interactive Reports Q4 and Full Year 2014 Results

http://www.stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2015/03/06/snap-interactive-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2014-results-business
Net loss Full Year 2014 USD 1,657,877
Many online dating companies had been operating at a loss for years!

Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony

http://talks.eharmony.com/video/116579569
eHarmony hosts the Los Angeles tech community for talks given by top technology experts.
 Finding Love Through Science
http://xcorr.net/2015/01/16/machine-learning-in-online-dating/
http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Machine-Learning-Data-Science/events/218822965/
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fc2brwi8sm7fpj4/AABdN5NoBis2Y3v5Ix5S2TGca/LoveThroughScience.pdf?dl=0
https://es.scribd.com/doc/257892134/Love-Through-Science-eHarmony-2015
PAPER cited there, "A Third of Recently Married Couples Met Online" is biased/failed.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/do-you-remember-paper-marital.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/a-third-of-recently-married-couples-met.html
eHarmony delivers matches as a machine gun shooting flowers (good for nothing, useless).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/machine-gun-shooting-flowers.html
eHarmony, is a 14+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/iaci-and-eharmony-usa-sites-big-tv.html
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.
 
Facial Analysis is useless for serious dating, see How facial features drive our first impressions
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/how-facial-features-drive-our-first.html
Match To Use Facial Recognition For Better Matches ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/match-to-use-facial-recognition-for.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/about-article-bot-selects-tinder-dates.html

Why Your (IPSATIVE MBTI) Personality Type Doesn't Matter - eHarmony Advice
http://www.eharmony.com/blog/2014/07/29/personality-type-doesnt-matter/#.VPdBQI5WIrk
http://static.eharmony.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Extraversion-of-eHarmony-users.png

eHarmony is not 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.

Please see also:
eHarmony Japan
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/eharmony-japan-live-soon-or-not.html

eHarmony Mapping Love with Hadoop ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-mapping-love-with-hadoop.html
 
eHarmony is conducting a big human experiment
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/more-about-elevated-careers-by-eharmony.html

Harris Interactive study about eHarmony is also biased
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/02/about-divorce-statistics-at-eharmony.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/eharmony-inc-2013-revenue-usd-180.html
eHarmony to Launch Globalization Initiative; Company Expects Subscriber Base to Grow 40-50% in 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/eharmony-to-launch-globalization.html

Big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/big-data-analytics-heroes-from-eharmony.html
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/11/personality-distribution-curves-using.html

Several times I had challenged eHarmony’s Team, Match’s Team, even PlentyOfFish owners to launch a new compatibility (personality profiling) site, using the normative 16PF test or similar in different languages.
I had also challenged them to show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/using-technology-and-psychology-to-make.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
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.
I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.
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 key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, but ...
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.

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
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", not 100% better, 100X better, really an INNOVATION.
The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
 

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf

PAPER "Enhancing Evaluation of Potential Dates Online Through Paired Collaborative Activities"

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2675184
http://datingbydoug.com/research/cscw_2015_zytko.pdf
CSCW '15, March 14 – 18, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada.


Please see also:
failed proposal of games at eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/games-at-eharmony-soon.html

failed proposal: Omnidate
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2008/04/can-technology.html#comments
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2008/03/omnidate-igor-k.html#comments
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2009/02/omnidate-competing-with-online-dating-sites/

Online Dating does not need any enhancement.
Online Dating does need INNOVATIONS.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/paper-using-groups-of-items-to.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-innovation-hub-data-behind.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
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.
I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.
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 key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, but ...
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.

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
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", not 100% better, 100X better, really an INNOVATION.
The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Spark Networks (LOV) Q4 2014 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2978686-spark-networks-lov-michael-egan-on-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
http://seekingalpha.com/pr/12743576-spark-networks-r-reports-fourth-quarter-financial-results

"Net income of USD3.9 million, highest since Q4 2007"
Average Paying Subscribers down compared to Q4 2013
Jewish Networks -11.7%
Christian Networks -26.6%


Cleaning numbers to be acquired by IAC (nasdaq:IACI) ? but ...
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/8032171-fernandoardenghi/3026303-will-iac-nasdaq-iaci-buy-spark-networks-lov-my-bet-no
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/spark-networks-q2-2014-results.html

Jiayuan International (DATE) Q4 2014 and FY 2014 Results

Earnings Call Webcast
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2974266-jiayuan-com-international-date-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-webcast

Jiayuan Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Financial Results
http://ir.jiayuan.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=900090
 
Fourth Quarter 2014 Operational Results

The number of average monthly active user accounts for the fourth quarter 2014 was 5,405,739, an increase of 9.9% from 4,920,553 in the corresponding period of 2013.

The number of average monthly paying user accounts for the fourth quarter 2014 was 1,526,397, an increase of 10.4% from1,382,873 in the corresponding period of 2013.

Average monthly revenue per paying user ("ARPU") for online services for the fourth quarter 2014 was RMB21.8, down 13.5% from RMB25.3 for the corresponding period in 2013.

Also:
Jiayuan Announces Receipt of "Going Private" Proposal and Departure of Director
http://ir.jiayuan.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=899435

OVER 133 Million INACTIVE profiles at Chinese site Jiayuan!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/over-133-million-inactive-profiles-at.html