http://seekingalpha.com/article/2960236-can-meetme-translate-user-growth-into-sustained-profits
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2960226-meetmes-meet-ceo-geoffrey-cook-on-q4-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
For MeetMe, see the peak of Q4 and then decayed!
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meetme.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/meetme.com/
www.similarweb.com/website/meetme.com
Q1 2015 will be worse than Q4 2014!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/meetme-reports-full-year-and-fourth.html
For Zoosk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.zoosk.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/zoosk.com/
www.similarweb.com/website/zoosk.com
Both MeetMe and Zoosk could run out of money this 2015.
Plenty of New social dating applications backed by Venture Capital Funds with fresh money to burn this 2015!
Tinder, Bumble, CoffeeMeetsBagel (CMB), Minder, Binger, SparkStarter, Courtem, Hinge, Happn, LOV and many more!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/stupid-investors-series-today-coffee.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-rethinking-meetme-at-seekin.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/another-tinder-clone-courtem-stupid.html
The findings were made in depressed and non-depressed people using
specialized brain-scanning technology and a simulated online dating
scenario. The research sheds new light on how the brain’s pain-response
mechanism, called the opioid system, differs in people with depression.
http://scienceblog.com/77188/shake-it-off-not-so-easy-for-people-with-depression
full paper:
"It
still hurts: altered endogenous opioid activity in the brain during
social rejection and acceptance in major depressive disorder"
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v20/n2/abs/mp2014185a.html
Please see:
article "How dating companies are having one-night stands with algorithms"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-how-dating-companies-are-having.html
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/02/27/the-current-state-of-online-dating/
http://www.gfk.com/us/news-and-events/press-room/press-releases/pages/us-adults-online-internet-dating.aspx
2.36% of U.S. adults—5.6 million people—reported using online dating sites in the past 30 days. That’s more than double that of five years ago, according to new analysis of survey data from market research company GfK MRI.
Social dating is vaporware.
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/global-dating-insights-2014-industry.html
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.
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 key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
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!
but no one is scientifically proven!
"Argentina Poniente" is a small town in Mexico, cannot be placed in New York
http://www.eharmony.com/ny/argentina-poniente-singles/arab/
http://www.eharmony.com/ny/argentina-poniente-singles/korean/
Please remember:
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/2015/02/strategy-presentation-eharmony.html
The
Big Five normative test that 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.
Key findings:
- 61% of websites had some form of scam warning while 39% had no information at all.
- 66% of dating sites operate an automatic subscription renewal policy and continue to charge users for their subscription until they cancel. However, many of them use free trials that are subject to terms and conditions that are only detailed in the fine print agreement.
- 89% of sites allow members to cancel online
- Less than 2% of websites provided specific information about the costs of the service before becoming a member.
- 46% of sites state in their terms and conditions that profile information may be used for advertising and referral to third party affiliates.
https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/927_ICPEN%20Dating%20Industry%20Report_D09.pdf
http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DATE
Jiayuan Surpasses 140 Million Registered User Accounts but.... Jiayuan recorded an average of 6.2 million monthly active user accounts in the third quarter of 2014.
Third Quarter 2014 Operational Results
The number of average monthly active user accounts for the third quarter 2014 was 6,168,616, an increase of 13.6% from 5,428,336 in the corresponding period of 2013 and an increase of 8.2% from 5,701,360 for the previous quarter.
The number of average monthly paying user accounts for the third quarter 2014 was 1,522,838, an increase of 11.3% from 1,368,726 in the corresponding period of 2013 and a decrease of 1.2% from 1,542,062 for the previous quarter.
http://ir.jiayuan.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=898168
Jiayuan International Ltd. ("Jiayuan") (NASDAQ: DATE) operates the largest online dating platform in China.
http://ir.jiayuan.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=884031
http://ir.jiayuan.com/releases.cfm
Jiayuan to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Financial Results on March 5, 2015
http://ir.jiayuan.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=896426
China's Internet Regulator Shuts 65 Dating Sites
http://globaldatinginsights.com/17022015-china-internet-regulatory-shuts-65-dating-sites/
They should also remove inactive profiles from online dating sites.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/china-to-go-after-fraud-on-online.html
Online dating profiles should have expiration dates!
eHarmony to Launch Globalization Initiative ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/eharmony-to-launch-globalization.html
too late and unnecessary!
The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats:
- Affinitas GmbH. German company operating the brands EliteSingles, eDarling and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/elitesingles-received-redesign.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/more-juicy-information-from-affinitas.html
- TeAmoRu.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/teamorru-morphing-to-more-casual-online.html
- eSynchrony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/i-had-reviewed-esynchrony-last-january.html
- MiMediaManzana.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/mi-media-manzana-review-my-half-apple.html
I had reviewed over 55
compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003,
when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.
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 Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
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.
The Untapped USD140 Trillion Innovation For Jobs Market
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/21/the-untapped-140-trillion-innovation-for-jobs-market/
Meet the New Boss: Big Data Companies Trade In Hunch-Based Hiring for Computer Modeling
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443890304578006252019616768
"When looking for workers to staff its call centers, Xerox Corp. used to pay lots of attention to applicants who had done the job before. Then, a computer program told the printer and outsourcing company that experience doesn't matter. The software said that what does matter in a good call-center worker—one who won't quit before the company recoups its USD5,000 investment in training—is personality. "
John and Ronda Hunter written last July 1984 "Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance. Psychological Bulletin, No. 96, pp. 72-98" (old but still valid paper) and found that psychological testing is a better predictor of job performance than any other single measure. Psychological tests have a validity coefficient of 0.53, analysis of information provided by the curriculum: 0.37, checking references 0.26, the level of education attained: 0.22 and 0.14 only for the job interview!
http://es.scribd.com/doc/134261505/Hunter-Hunter-1984-Validity-and-Utility-of-Alternative-Predictors-of-Job-Performance
The same to detect real entrepreneurs for false entrepreneurs. Several Academics had investigated the relationship between Entrepreneurship and Personality Traits.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/07/paper-are-psychopaths-and-heroes-twigs.html
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.
