Affinitas GmbH. fired whole team from its casual site ShopAMan.

http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/edarling-entlassungen-shopaman

http://online-dating-news.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/ausgeshopt-affinitas-entlasst.html

Perhaps 200+ employees from eDarling / EliteSingles will be fired soon.

Their online dating sites can fly in automatic pilot until they crash. Anyway nearly nobody uses them, nobody cares.

In 2 years it will be a case of study as stupid investors series in the Online Dating Industry, like Be2, FriendScout24, ElitePartner, SmartDate, even Parship and other European proposals that failed to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Please see:

Affinitas GmbH. 2013 financials. Revenue and Net Loss.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/affinitas-gmbh-2013-financials-revenue.html

SparkLabs Global Ventures Invested In South American Dating Startup? via GDI

http://globaldatinginsights.com/28052015-palo-alto-venture-firm-invest-in-south-american-dating-startup/

Perhaps they will waste/lost the money they invest in Mi Media Manzana

It is only a copycat of eHarmony or eDarling Chile/Mexico.
The team can not innovate.

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-4-biggest-eharmonys-copycats.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. 

MeetMe CTO resigned

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2550216-meetme-cto-friedman-resigns

Perhaps he knows in advance MeetMe will be Game Over soon.
Facebook allows minors to use it (people from 13 to 17 years old)
Online Dating is NOT for minors.
Perhaps MeetMe will collapse like Skout.
http://mashable.com/2012/06/13/skout-rape/

MeetMe's (MEET) CEO Geoffrey Cook on Q1 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript / via SeekingAlpha
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/meetmes-meet-ceo-geoffrey-cook-on-q1.html

USA FBI to investigate hacking incident at AFF?

http://www.channel4.com/news/adult-friendfinder-dating-site-hack-sale-email-data-warning

Perhaps the USA FBI will discover that some women profiles are employees posing as daters, because ...

Just 6% Of AdultFriendFinder’s UK Users Are Women, Hacked Data Shows
https://globaldatinginsights.com/26052015-just-6-of-adultfriendfinders-uk-users-are-women-hacked-data-shows/


see also
Article: Ashley Madison: Is infidelity a billion-dollar business?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/article-ashley-madison-is-infidelity.html


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/2-tips-about-ashley-madisons-ashleys.html

Ashley Madison: "The dispute began when Silva — who came to Toronto from Brazil — sued her former employer in 2012, alleging she seriously hurt her wrists and forearms typing up 1,000 "fake female profiles" over a few weeks for a new Portuguese-language version of the site." 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/lawsuit-against-dating-site-for-married.html

Internet dating website launched by state in Iran (BBC article)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32833363

Perhaps China will do the same soon. Who knows?
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  

Please see:
Immoral dating sites to be replaced by marriage sites in Iran
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/immoral-dating-sites-to-be-replaced-by.html

Ms. Mary Meeker's 2015 Internet Trends: The evolution during 20 years.

one word overview: STAGNATION

http://kpcbweb2.s3.amazonaws.com/files/90/Internet_Trends_2015.pdf?1432738078

http://vator.tv/news/2015-05-27-meekers-internet-trends-the-evolution-during-20-yrs

Please see also:
Internet Trends report 2013 from KPCB
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/internet-trends-report-2013-from-kpcb.html

It is not mobile, it is multi-platform. comScore reports
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/it-is-not-mobile-it-is-multi-platform.html

Article Plenty of fishiness

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2015-05-26/article-4159987/Plenty-of-fishiness/1
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2015/05/plentyoffish-kills-evowcom.html

Perhaps PlentyofFish decadence can be explained if they began to remove some spammers/scammers from the site.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pof.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/pof.com/
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/plentyoffish.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/plentyoffish.com/
http://www.similarweb.com/website/pof.com
http://www.similarweb.com/website/plentyoffish.com
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/why-we-still-cant-stop-talking-about.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-conman-scams-aud260000-on.html

Why no one could had copycatted PlentyOfFish (POF)? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/why-no-one-could-had-copycatted.html

PlentyOfFish (POF) is past its prime now, but it was a great player at its peak. Also failed with eVow to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

thesis: MOBILE DATING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING ON TINDER

https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/5529/JAMES-THESIS-2015.pdf?sequence=1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/some-operating-details-from-bumble-by.html

Social dating is vaporware. 
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 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".
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
 
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 

Article: Ashley Madison: Is infidelity a billion-dollar business?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32746405

My bet: NOT, perhaps they have an army of employees posing as daters.
http://mashable.com/2015/04/22/ashley-madison-interview/

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/white-paper-married-but-dating.html

Some operating details from Bumble by Badoo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11616130/Tinder-co-founder-Whitney-Wolfe-The-word-feminist-seemed-to-put-guys-off-but-now-I-realise-who-cares.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 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".
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
 
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 

GREAT PAPER Dynamic Grover Search: Applications in Recommendation systems and Optimization problems

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00895.pdf


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).

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html


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!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
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 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 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  

Please see:
USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html

Large online dating site AdultFriendFinder confirms data breach

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/21/adultfriendfinder-data-breach/27723329/


As usual, eHarmony hacked again
Year over year the same scratched disk.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/as-usual-eharmony-hacked-again.html

About article Silicon Valley, 6 Chinese Men Indicted in Theft of Code From U.S. Tech Companies

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/technology/6-chinese-men-indicted-in-theft-of-code-from-us-tech-companies.html?_r=0

Why USA state spying is good; and Chinese state spying is bad ?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/why-usa-state-spying-is-good-and.html

http://vator.tv/news/2015-05-19-tech-firms-send-letter-to-obama-no-security-back-doors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W87

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W88

MOMO by Alibaba, from unprofitability to high profitability?

How it was possible?
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2531026-momo-reports-q1-results
But ... China Shuts Over 120 Dating Sites In Online Clampdown
http://globaldatinginsights.com/18052015-china-shuts-over-120-dating-sites-in-online-clampdown/

Perhaps MOMO could be next!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/idate-china-2015-online-dating-websites.html

Tinder in video = at First Sight Studio

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/05/prweb12728620.htm


Social dating is vaporware. 
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 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".
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
 
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 


With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony 
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever. 

iDate China 2015, Online dating websites facing tougher regulation

http://www.ecns.cn/2015/05-18/165700.shtml

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/scams-in-china-make-typical-us.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/why-usa-state-spying-is-good-and.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/about-alibaba-group-holding-ltd-facial.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/double-buyout-offer-for-jiayuan.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/alibaba-baba-fined-for-price-violations.html

Snap Interactive Reports Results for Q1. 2015

Snap Interactive Reports Results for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2015

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/232904535

Net loss was approximately USD1.2 million, or USD0.03 per share of basic and diluted common stock, for the first quarter of 2015 as compared with net loss of approximately USD0.9 million, or USD0.02 per share of basic and diluted common stock, for the comparable period in 2014.

death spiral?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/snap-interactive-reports-q4-and-full.html

Bumble backed by Badoo to challenge Tinder

http://time.com/3851583/bumble-whitney-wolfe/

Bumble launched about six months ago and seems to be catching on. With around half a million users sending 200,000 messages per day, it’s growing about 15% every week, Wolfe claims. Some 60% of matches turn into conversations. While Bumble has not yet monetized and won’t disclose the details of its funding, Wolfe’s partner and major funder is Andrey Andreev, founder of Badoo, the multi-billion dollar European social network. Their Austin-based office has only six employees—and five of them are women.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/hotornot-returns-like-living-dead.html
Not sure if Bumble will take off, but it will be a big war between Tinder and Bumble.

Please see:
about Match Group spin-off
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/iaci-29march2015-report-about-match.html

How a battered Zoosk kept employees engaged

http://www.cio.com/article/2922391/careers-staffing/how-a-battered-zoosk-kept-employees-engaged.html

http://www.cio.com/article/2922391/careers-staffing/how-a-battered-zoosk-kept-employees-engaged.html?page=2

No IPO for Zoosk

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/no-ipo-for-zoosk.html

See also sudden drop in traffic rank:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/zoosk.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/zoosk.com 
http://www.similarweb.com/website/zoosk.com

My bet: ZOOSK WILL RUN OUT OF MONEY SOON, IT WILL COLLAPSE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/article-at-sa-beware-of-these-3-letters.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/zoosk-will-announce-that-it-was.html

Scams In China Make Typical U.S. Catfishing Seem Like a Really Cute Prank

http://www.bustle.com/articles/83662-online-dating-scams-in-china-make-typical-us-catfishing-seem-like-a-really-cute-prank

One scam in particular is so genius that it’s scary. 

Step 1: A restaurant-owner hires an attractive woman. 

Step 2: The woman makes a dating profile. 

Step 3: The woman contacts a man via Jiayuan, whom she then convinces to take her on a date to the restaurant who hired her. 

Step 4: She racks up an exorbitant tab, ranging from USD100 to USD2,000. 

Step 5: The poor scammed schmuck never hears from her again, and is now significantly less wealthy. 

Unfortunately, this “date-for-profit” scam has happened to 57, 218 lonely people looking for love, according to the study.

http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Stringhini/papers/dating-dimva2015.pdf

about Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Facial Biometrics Partner Face++

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Facial Biometrics Partner Face++ Secures USD25 Million Funding

http://www.bidnessetc.com/42874-alibaba-group-holding-ltd-facial-biometrics-partner-face-secures-25-million/

"Face++ also uses its picture-related API to integrate itself with an expansive variety of entertainment and photography applications. Camera 360, China’s massively popular photo app, uses Face++ software along with Ukrainian dating service Finch. The company claims that more than 30,000 developers have integrated Face++ tools in their application ecosystem."

please see:

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-conman-scams-aud260000-on.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/about-article-bot-selects-tinder-dates.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/article-7-things-your-face-says-about.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/momo-announces-unaudited-financial.html

many online dating companies in the same road as .....

SmartDate.
Do you remember?
http://www.rudebaguette.com/2011/11/22/smartdate-the-french-startup-everyone-is-asking-questions-about/
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/happn-dating-app-powered-by-real-life.html

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/11/smartdate-employees-stiffed-vc-rails-against-ceo.html

Social dating is only vaporware.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/iac-reports-q1-2015-results.html

MeetMe's (MEET) CEO Geoffrey Cook on Q1 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript / via SeekingAlpha

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3173346-meetmes-meet-ceo-geoffrey-cook-on-q1-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

my bet: MeetMe (MEET) is in its peak and soon it will decay.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/meetme-q1-2015-financials.html
MeetMe can not innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
Perhaps it WILL RUN OUT OF MONEY SOON, IT WILL COLLAPSE.

Same road as Zoosk (ZSK)

http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/08/online-dating-company-zoosk-backpedals-on-100m-ipo/

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/no-ipo-for-zoosk.html

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3080716-beware-of-these-3-letters

YY Reports First Quarter 2015 Unaudited Financial Results

http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/05/11/734757/10133685/en/YY-Reports-First-Quarter-2015-Unaudited-Financial-Results.html

More about 1st. Quarter 2015 Financial Results
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/yy-to-announce-first-quarter-2015.html

WSJ article about Elevated Careers by eHarmony

Dating Site eHarmony Ramps Up Analytics for New Job Matching Business

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/05/07/dating-site-eharmony-ramps-up-analytics-for-new-job-matching-business/
eHarmony, is a 14+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-eharmony-founder-talks.html
USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html

eVow GAME OVER?

Traffic redirected to PlentyOfFish?
also PlentyOfFish (POF) in severe decadence due to Tinder?

Who can investigate further?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/evow-game-over-soon-who-knows.html

Some info from eVow and PlentyOfFish (POF)

https://siteanalytics.compete.com/evow.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/evow.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pof.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/pof.com/
the older domain name
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/plentyoffish.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/plentyoffish.com/
eVow never took off!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/why-no-one-could-had-copycatted.html
  PlentyOfFish (POF) is past its prime now, but it was a great player at its peak. Also failed with eVow to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Interactive Corp Presentation – Long Tinder: IRA Sohn Conference 2015 [Slides]

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/05/interactive-corp-long-tinder/

Article at SA: IAC/InterActiveCorp Management Discusses Q1 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/article-at-sa-iacinteractivecorp.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 


With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony 
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever. 

PAPER Can deep learning help you find the perfect match?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00359.pdf

Of course NOT!


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).

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html


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!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
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 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 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  

Please see:
USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html

No IPO for Zoosk

http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/08/online-dating-company-zoosk-backpedals-on-100m-ipo/

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1438964/000119312515179086/d921587drw.htm


Zoosk can not innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/zoosk-app-is-betting-on-wearables-for.html
 
See also sudden drop in traffic rank:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/zoosk.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/zoosk.com 
http://www.similarweb.com/website/zoosk.com

My bet: ZOOSK WILL RUN OUT OF MONEY SOON, IT WILL COLLAPSE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/article-at-sa-beware-of-these-3-letters.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/zoosk-will-announce-that-it-was.html

MeetMe Q1 2015 financials

MeetMe, Great make up to show profits.
Please see:
http://seekingalpha.com/pr/13427256-meetme-reports-first-quarter-2015-financial-results


MeetMe: Translating User Growth To Profits
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3160566-meetme-translating-user-growth-to-profits

MeetMe Full Year 2014 financials
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/meetme-full-year-2014-financials.html

PAPER A Collaborative Filtering Recommender System Integrated with Interest Drift based on Forgetting Function

http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJUNESST/vol8_no4/23.pdf

Similarity is a word that has different meanings for different persons or companies, it exactly depends on how mathematically is defined.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-hybrid-personalized-recommender.html

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to .......... compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry for years!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/paper-collaborative-filtering-systems.html

Recommender Systems Using Implicit Utility and Genetic Algorithm
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-utility-based-recommender-systems.html


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).

If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html

Love at first swipe: How social media is changing the dating scene ???

http://fox21news.com/2015/05/05/love-at-first-swipe-how-social-media-is-changing-the-dating-scene/

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!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlationwith quantized patterns.
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 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 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  

Please see:
USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html

Proven Losers from Rocket Internet SE 2014

Rocket Internet Announces Full Year 2014 Results

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/Press%20Release%20Results%20FY2014_EN.pdf

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/May_2015_-_Rocket_Results_FY_2014.pdf

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/Rocket%20Annual%20Report%202014.pdf

from page 121 to page 135 of pdf report, full list of companies.


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/27ac0218-f301-11e4-b98f-00144feab7de.html


Please see FT article "Rocket from the shelf"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-rocket-from-shelf.html

They have big losses because they sell below cost to gain traction. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.
If you want to replicate a big success in Brazil, it will be as hard as the same to replicate it in all European countries, but in this case with 1/8 of population and the majority of the persons DO NOT own or WILL NOT use a credit/debit card to buy online! They will prefer to research online and then buy offline.
Many if not most, USA, Canada or European businesses models are unfeasible in Latin American countries! Perhaps the same situation for Africa, Russia or even Australia.(transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than Europe)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/article-rocket-internets-brotherneurs.html