"Breaking the online dating sound barrier": January 2017

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Hinge copycats eH+ (eHarmony Plus)

Hinge Personal Assistant Plays Matchmaker for USD99/Month
http://in.pcmag.com/software/112097/news/hinge-personal-assistant-plays-matchmaker-for-99month
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations, not COPYCATS!
eHarmony Plus (eH+) Personal Matchmaking Service For USD5K
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/eharmony-plus-eh.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/eh-eharmony-plus-freezed.html

BI article: Dating app Hinge is rolling back part of its big reboot after less than a month
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/bi-article-dating-app-hinge-is-rolling.html

EliteSingles to copycat Match == search by your own
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/elitesingles-to-copycat-match-search-by.html

CNET article: Match is using geolocation technology to help you find the guy or girl next door.
copycats Happn.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/cnet-article-match-is-using-geolocation.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/happn-in-emergency-plans-to-reboot-next.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/article-dating-app-happn-perfect-for.html

Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
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.

Tinder in inside WAR against Match.
Tinder in another WAR against Badoo and Bumble (backed by Badoo)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/tc-article-bumble-is-launching-video.html

eHarmony Inc. in WAR with Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling / EliteSingles sites)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/it-is-not-dear-eharmony-member-it-is.html

Spark Networks: sinking ship.
Snap Interactive: sinking ship.
Zoosk: sinking ship.
Happn: sinking ship.
Hinge: sinking ship.
CoffeeMeetsBagel: sinking ship.

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"

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

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

Monday, January 30, 2017

EliteSingles to copycat Match == search by your own

http://globaldatinginsights.com/2017/01/30/elitesingles-has-revamped-the-platform-for-uk-irish-and-us-singles/

Recently, the dating company introduced a brand new open search tool to its iOS app in the US, which lets both basic and premium users search for matches based on their preferences.

With the new feature, singles can gain access to and filter EliteSingles’ “dating pool” to make their own match decisions – a big move for the dating brand, which previously only suggested matches based on users’ answers to a personality test.

THAT IS SAME TO COPYCAT MATCH DOT COM

Please remember:
the person you are looking for, does not exist; it is only an idealization from your mind
or
if the person you are looking for does really exist, he/she does not want to meet you because you are not compatible.

"Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

There is a WAR between eHarmony Inc. and Affinitas GmbH. (EliteSingles / eDarling sites, copycats of eHarmony)
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/eharmony.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/elitesingles.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/eharmony.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/elitesingles.ca

EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) CEO thinks he can beat eHarmony with its copycat.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-ceo-thinks.html

eDarling Chile and eDarling Mexico rebrand to EliteSingles Chile and EliteSingles Mexico
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/edarling-chile-and-edarling-mexico.html

eHarmony CEO talks stupidities with Mark Brooks. NO INNOVATION AT ALL for eHarmony!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/about-article-eharmonys-new-ceo-grant.html

MiMediaManzana (from Peru) eHarmony style copycat GAME OVER by Alexa.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/mimediamanzana-from-peru-eharmony-style.html
eSynchrony rebrands to esync and relaunches site. (eHarmony style copycat)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/esynchrony-rebrands-to-esync-and.html

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Nanny, 22, shocked to find photo of her posing in boyfriend’s Army uniform being used on DATING SITE.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Match Group MTCH is the stock to watch in 2017?

I agree. It can sink!
http://seekingalpha.com/article/4040145-match-happily-ever
Please see "Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

CNET article: Match is using geolocation technology to help you find the guy or girl next door.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/cnet-article-match-is-using-geolocation.html

Why You Should Avoid IAC/MTCH (Match Group) for Now
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/why-you-should-avoid-iacmatc-match.html
For IAC: This complex company is controlled by one man.
Chairman Diller, while owning just 8% of the shares, controls 80% of the voting power.

Friday, January 27, 2017

2017 iDate Awards Winners: Most Innovative Company: eHarmony ?

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2017/01/2017-idate-awards-winners.html
Same rubbish as iDate2016?
Tinder, eHarmony and Zoosk Win iDate2016 Superconference Awards ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/tinder-eharmony-and-zoosk-win-idate2016.html

Where is the innovation?

Perhaps it is only most copycatted company, no more than that!
eHarmony is ONLY a 16++++++ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony and EliteSingles/eDarling, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
They should be terminated ASAP.

The Online Dating Industry needs innovations, not FRAUDS!
Moreover, their Management Team should be in JAIL for FRAUD.

Does the Online Dating Industry really need the iDate2017 Miami Superconference?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/does-online-dating-industry-really-need.html

Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
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.

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"

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

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

CNET article: Match is using geolocation technology to help you find the guy or girl next door.

https://www.cnet.com/news/match-tinder-online-dating-location

Match Introduces Missed Connections: New Feature to Help Singles Meet in the Real World
http://blog.match.com/2017/01/25/missed-connections/

Tinder in inside WAR against Match.
Tinder in another WAR against Badoo and Bumble (backed by Badoo)

Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

Why You Should Avoid IAC/MTCH (Match Group) for Now
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/why-you-should-avoid-iacmatc-match.html
Match Group is stagnated, can not grow without innovation first!
Will wait to see Q4 2016, if begins to show Match Group stagnation and then decadence.

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

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
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.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Matchpool Bids on Blockchain to Disrupt Multi-Billion Dollar Online Dating Market ?

http://coinjournal.net/matchpool-blockchain-online-dating/

Please remember:
All Scientific Research shows: The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.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!

eHarmony Makes Online Dating A Little Less Painful ?

https://www.newstalkflorida.com/entertainment/eharmony-says-goodbye-long-questionaire/

PAPER and article about "Tinder is for instant gratification only"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-and-article-about-tinder-is-for.html

eHarmony CEO talks stupidities with Mark Brooks. NO INNOVATION AT ALL for eHarmony!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/about-article-eharmonys-new-ceo-grant.html

eHarmony, is a 16+ 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.
Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) CEO thinks he can beat eHarmony with its copycat.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-ceo-thinks.html

UK Online dating fraud victim numbers at record high (via BBC)

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Nerdist Special Reports: nightmare that is online dating

http://nerdist.com/incredible-jessica-james-sundance-jessica-williams-noel-wells/

Does the Online Dating Industry really need the iDate2017 Miami Superconference?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/does-online-dating-industry-really-need.html

Alexa and SimilarWeb show the rising tide is not happening for Online Dating Industry 2017
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/alexa-and-similarweb-show-rising-tide.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
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.

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"

Mozilla’s First Internet Health Report Tackles Security and Privacy

https://threatpost.com/mozillas-first-internet-health-report-tackles-security-privacy/123235/
https://internethealthreport.org/v01/

Please see also:
article: Fraud and identity theft a real problem for online dating sites!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/article-fraud-and-identity-theft-real.html
comScore: Desktop audience and engagement in Latin America continues to grow
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/comscore-desktop-audience-and.html

Friday, January 20, 2017

Rocket Internet SE closes USD 1 B fund, the largest out of Europe to date

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/rocket-internet-closes-1b-fund-the-largest-to-date-out-of-europe/

(Perhaps they want to get rid of AB Kinnevik?)

Rocket Internet SE has Euros 1.7 Billion cash to burn. (Inside Rocket Internet’s Ailing Startup Factory)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/rocket-internet-se-has-euros-17-billion.html

Rocket Internet was founded in Berlin ten years ago.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/rocket-internet-was-founded-in-berlin.html

Many if not most, USA, Canadian or European businesses models are unfeasible in Latin American countries, African countries, Russia or even Australia because transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than in Europe.
All European countries fit in Brazil, Russia, Africa or Australia.
It means: 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.
All the domino should fall ... when they run out of money!

article and PAPER: Effects of personality on postdivorce partnership trajectories

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0265407516665250
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161205-how-break-ups-change-your-personality

Please notice the research was done using the Big Five (Big 5) normative test that was revealed as incomplete, incorrect and obsolete personality test. It was replaced by the Big Six a.k.a HEXACO test.
The Big Five (Big5) normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago. The Big Five is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.

As some of the subdomains of the main domains of the HEXACO model are different from the subdomains of the main domains of the Big Five model, it can not be simple added the scale of the Honesty-Humility factor to the Big Five model to upgrade the personality test to the HEXACO model.
".. the Big Five's Agreeableness and HEXACO's Agreeableness are not identical. The Big Five factors do not include an Honesty-Humility factor, but some of the characteristics belonging to Honesty-Humility are incorporated into the Big Five's Agreeableness factor. Although earlier investigations found only the Big Five factors, more recent studies conducted in various languages (including English) with larger sets of adjectives recovered six factors. "

I need to hammer your head and drill holes in your brain to make you understand Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.
Also take into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed 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".

Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old (the group of persons who could be most interested in serious online dating) They have only minor changes in personality (less than 1 interval in a normative test) and the 16PF5 test will not "see" them because the output of the 16PF5 test are 16 variables STens (Standard Tens) taking integer values from 1 to 10. STens divide the score scale into ten units. STens have the advantage that they enable results to be thought of in terms of bands of scores, rather than absolute raw scores. These bands are narrow enough to distinguish statistically significant differences between candidates, but wide enough not to over emphasize minor differences between candidates.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

PAPER: Tell Me Something I Don't Know: Analyzing OkCupid Profiles

Tell Me Something I Don't Know: Analyzing OkCupid Profiles

Please remember: When the IAC Personals, now Match Group, bought OKCupid (6+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission. IAC Personals backed Tinder instead (via Hatch Labs), as the copycat of Badoo.
But Tinder (4+ years old site) can not outperform Badoo (10+ years old site).
And Badoo also owns Bumble.

Please see:
PAPER and article about "Tinder is for instant gratification only"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-and-article-about-tinder-is-for.html