Websites can predict friends but not who you will fancy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4841082/online-dating-waste-time-t-predict-fancy.html
Online dating: Can an algorithm really match you with your dream date?
http://www.hindustantimes.com/sex-and-relationships/online-dating-can-an-algorithm-really-match-you-with-your-dream-date/story-DvrNiSgdhL9LKAx2kGEeBI.html
about article: eHarmony's much-needed redesign saves it from being 'antiquated'
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/about-article-eharmonys-much-needed.html
about article: Dating? A magic formula to predict attraction is more elusive than ever
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/about-article-dating-magic-formula-to.html
The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
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. (Behavioural recommender systems or other
system that learns your preferences are useless)
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, and not meet other people
with similar interests or political views.
At the paper "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity"
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality
are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former
partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline
how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar
personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on
finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present
study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g.,
Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate
people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term
relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."
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 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
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/graphic-design/eharmonys-much-needed-redesign-saves-it-from-being-antiquated/
eHarmony is a 17+ years old obsolete site.
The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is only supported by a big marketing budget and not by serious scientific evidence.
The
Big Five normative test used by eHarmony and its copycats, had been
proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure
personality of persons.
Now it is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use it (year 2017)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/work-life-balance-q-with-eharmony-ceo.html
Contradictory
information from eHarmony and PROOF of FRAUD from the papers they had
published using the OBSOLETE NORMATIVE PERSONALITY TEST BIG FIVE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/contradictory-information-from-eharmony.html
about article: Online dating sucks because of the algorithms not the people
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/about-article-online-dating-sucks.html
eHarmony
is in big war with its copycat, EliteSingles since May 2012, after
former eHarmony's CEO refused to fully acquire its mother company
Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/coo-von-betreiber-affinitas-im-neuen.html
eHarmony CEO and article "The Online Dating Industry is Growing and Evolving"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/eharmony-ceo-and-article-online-dating.html
eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK,
Chile, Mexico; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia;
also TeAmo in
Russia is another copycat of eHarmony;
esync (eSynchrony) in Singapore,
MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc.,
Marrily in India
and now
LemonSwan in Germany and other countries.
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
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.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170830132200.htm
The one or your soulmate or the perfect match does not exist!
It will only exist a pool of compatible persons, not more than that.
No online dating site can promise you to find "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfect match".
Moreover the person you are looking for does not exist or if it exist, he/she does not want to meet you because your are not compatible.
BIASED and wrong article about online dating: Love really is a numbers game
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/biased-and-wrong-article-about-online.html
What
is important in attracting people to one another may not be important
in making couples happy. The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY
is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with
similar interests or political views".
article about "The next big thing in online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/article-about-next-big-thing-in-online.html
about article "Looking back on 11 years of mixing and matching"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/about-article-looking-back-on-11-years.html
Contradictory
information from eHarmony and PROOF of FRAUD from the papers they had
published using the OBSOLETE NORMATIVE PERSONALITY TEST BIG FIVE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/contradictory-information-from-eharmony.html
about article: Online dating sucks because of the algorithms not the people
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/about-article-online-dating-sucks.html
The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
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. (Behavioural recommender systems or other
system that learns your preferences are useless)
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, and not meet other people
with similar interests or political views.
At the paper "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity"
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality
are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former
partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline
how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar
personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on
finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present
study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g.,
Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate
people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term
relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."
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 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
https://omr.com/de/edarling-affinitas-podcast-michael-schrezenmaier/
Spark Networks Announces Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Merger with Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/spark-networks-announces-filing-of.html
Affinitas GmbH. said a lie when it was written
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/affinitas-gmbh-said-lie-when-it-was.html
"The acquisition, for a price between €10m – €20m, is the Berlin-based premium dating site’s first acquisition."
Affinitas GmbH. 2016 financials via
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/affinitas-gmbh-2016-financials-via.html
Spark Networks Files Registration Statement With SEC Over Affinitas GmbH. Merger
Match Group is 10 times bigger than Spark + Affinitas merge in revenue.
eHarmony
is 2 or 3 times bigger than Spark + Affinitas merge in revenue and
eHarmony has 750,000 paid subscribers and Affinitas in the range of
380,000.
EliteSingles / eDarling sites are only copycats of eHarmony.
A
prospective client will not perceive eDarling / EliteSingles sites as
better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones. eHarmony has about
750,000 paid subscribers and 10 million active users, which has been
steady for the past five years.
eHarmony's sites are 3 times bigger in active users and revenue than EliteSingles's sites.
And
worse, Affinitas GmbH. can not beat and will never beat eHarmony Inc.
in United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and United States.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/eharmony-ceo-visiting-australia-summer.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/for-elitesingles-ceo-to-speak-at-idate.html
Compare to Affinitas GmbH. 2015 financials
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/affinitas-gmbh-2015-financials.html
also
Spark Networks, Inc. (NYSE American: LOV) Releases Q2 2017 Financials
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/spark-networks-inc-nyse-american-lov.html
eHarmony
is in big war with its copycat, EliteSingles since May 2012, after
former eHarmony's CEO refused to fully acquire its mother company
Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/female-journalist-from-sun-uk-testing.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/new-logo-and-new-type-design-for.html
eHarmony CEO and article "The Online Dating Industry is Growing and Evolving"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/eharmony-ceo-and-article-online-dating.html
eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK,
Chile, Mexico; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia;
also TeAmo in
Russia is another copycat of eHarmony;
esync (eSynchrony) in Singapore,
MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc.,
Marrily in India
and now
LemonSwan in Germany and other countries.
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
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.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4101623-tinder-swipes-right-ads
More about Bumble - Match Group war
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/more-about-bumble-match-group-war.html
Match Group in big debt now, USD 1.2 Million.
Has no money to acquire more companies.
The
Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating
sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24),
OurTime, HowAboutWe, PlentyOfFish and many more and all of them are past
their primes, reached operating ceiling and they are in decadence.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/match-group-opened-umbrella-before-it.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-better-business-bureau-gives.html
When
Match Group (fka IAC Personals) 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 / Match Group "acquired" HatchLabs to "develop" Tinder copycat of Badoo.
Then Badoo backed Bumble to fight back and destroy Tinder (last December 2014).
Social dating is vaporware.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/match-group-tried-to-acquire-bumble-for-450-million/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2017/08/23/women-first-app-bumble-turned-down-450-million-buyout-offer-from-dating-giant-match-group/#6e4e0b764c11
It is a FAKE new!
Match Group in big debt now, USD 1.2 Million.
Has no money to acquire more companies.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe, PlentyOfFish and many more and all of them are past their primes, reached operating ceiling and they are in decadence.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/match-group-opened-umbrella-before-it.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-better-business-bureau-gives.html
Be alerted, be informed Bumble is backed by Badoo (80%, majority-owned by Badoo)
It is said Badoo is related to Russian mafia of white hat hackers in the spyware business.
Badoo is in big war with Tinder (Match Group)
When Match Group (fka IAC Personals) 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 / Match Group "acquired" HatchLabs to "develop" Tinder copycat of Badoo.
Then Badoo backed Bumble to fight back and destroy Tinder (last December 2014).
Social dating is vaporware.
Perhaps Badoo plans to incinerate Match in revenge? If they hacked Match Group databases and can demonstrate Match Group does really create fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe, ala OKCupid lawsuit.
LAWSUIT Chad Perkins et al. v. Match Group Inc. et al., case number 1:17-cv-2988
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/article-about-bumble-27-year-old-ceo.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/wsj-article-okcupid-bets-that-swipe.html
Match Group's (MTCH) CEO on Q2 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/match-groups-mtch-ceo-on-q2-2017.html
It is like the urban legend for CoffeeMeetsBagel (USD 30 million offer) .
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/hilarius-interview-from.html
That USD 30 million offer was only as a joke, because Mark Cuban had no interest at all in CoffeeMeetsBagel.
He had previously invested in another online dating app (now defuncted) named Courtem.
