"Breaking the online dating sound barrier": April 2019

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Facebook Dating coming to the U.S. at end 2019

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-dating-comes-to-usa-facebook-f8-2019/

Facebook Dating opens to friends with Secret Crush
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-opens-to-friends-with.html

Facebook dating will be launched in 2020
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/when-does-facebooks-dating-app-become.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/sa-article-match-group-is-clear-sell-on.html

No Valentine's month 2019?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/no-valentines-month-2019.html

Sink Rate for many online dating sites via Alexa
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/sink-rate-for-many-online-dating-sites.html

Why online dating apps are the real black hole?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/why-online-dating-apps-are-real-black.html

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites

but no one is using the 16PF6 (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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.
but no one is 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.

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".

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 Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Facebook Dating opens to friends with Secret Crush

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/facebook-dating-secret-crush/
https://www.xataka.com/servicios/secret-crush-facebook-lista-privada-gente-que-quieres-ser-algo-que-amigos

Facebook announced today at its F8 conference that Dating is opening in 14 more countries, bringing the total to 19. It will launch in the US before the end of the year. Dating brings with it a new feature called Secret Crush that expands it beyond strangers and friends-of-friends. Choose up to 9 friends you like-like. If they’ve opted into Facebook Dating, they’ll get a notification that some friend has a crush on them. If they add you as a Secret Crush too, you’re both notified and can chat on Messenger.

Facebook dating launches at Chile, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guyana and Suriname.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-launches-at-chile-peru.html

Facebook dating launches at Chile, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guyana and Suriname.

https://www.fayerwayer.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-chile/

Nearly a year ago, Facebook announced Facebook dating.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/nearly-year-ago-facebook-announced.html

PROOF Viola.AI is/was BIG hoax, fraud, big OVERPROMISE

https://draftable.com/compare/iSBUPTsZDqLq

about article: "Don't Leave Your Love Life To Algorithms"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/about-article-dont-leave-your-love-life.html

Viola.AI .. but Match failed with Amazon Alexa
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/violaai-but-match-failed-with-amazon.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/violaai-siri-with-empathy.html

Viola.AI: another (FRAUD / HOAX) online dating app using blockchain technology?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/12/violaai-another-fraud-hoax-online.html

They had the bad habit to call / to mistake AI to any silly recommender system that learns your preference.
DO NOT mistake "artificial intelligence" with a behavioural recommender system.

The Meet Group, Inc. (MEET) three key priorities for 2019

https://seekingalpha.com/filing/4460222

1) Invest in the core business and features
2) Expand into adjacencies to attract new audiences
3) Grow adjusted EBITDA margins
The word "innovation" is not used in the document.

MEET group can not innovate at all and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Meet Group (MEET) Q4 and Full Year 2018 Financial Results
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/meet-group-meet-q4-and-full-year-2018.html

Please see also:

Spark Networks SE Reports Second Half And Full Year 2018 Results
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/spark-networks-se-reports-second-half.html

Monday, April 29, 2019

Spark Networks SE Reports Second Half And Full Year 2018 Results

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/17491651-spark-networks-se-reports-second-half-full-year-2018-results
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3455666-spark-networks-reports-2h-results

Revenue for 2018 was Euros 104.6 Million, and 2H GAAP EPS of - Euros 1.51.
MTCH or MOMO is 10x Revenue
MEET is nearly 1.8x Revenue

Net Loss for 2018 was Euros 3.1 Million.
The Company ended the year with Euros 11.1 Million in cash and Euros 12.1 Million in debt.
Zoosk is dead walking cat. In decadence.

Wait for Facebook dating.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/nearly-year-ago-facebook-announced.html

Spark Networks April 29, 2019 Conference Call to Discuss 2018 Financials
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/spark-networksa-pril-29-2019-conference.html

Please remember EliteSingles / SilverSingles powered by Spark Networks and copycats of eHarmony, are HOAXES, BIG FRAUDS.

eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles / SilverSingles 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
LemonSwan in Germany and other countries.
The Five Factor Model aka 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.

Nearly a year ago, Facebook announced Facebook dating.

Now several newspapers talk about the "Tinder created by Facebook"
https://larepublica.pe/tecnologia/1459065-facebook-tinder-creado-mark-zuckerberg-video-redes-sociales-facebook-dating-fb
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/ft-article-about-match-taps-growing.html
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/facebook-extends-its-dating-service-to.html

Facebook Dating will allow daters to connect with Instagram account
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-will-allow-daters-to.html

Facebook is taking on Tinder with new dating features
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/facebook-is-taking-on-tinder-with-new.html

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

How to spy on Tinder, NetFlix, Google and Facebook's spying

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6972031/How-spy-Google-Facebooks-spying.html

Security issues in mobile dating applications: attacks, malware and phishing. (via singleboersen-vergleich)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/04/security-issues-in-mobile-dating.html

Perhaps she is a white hat hacker, not a reverse-engineering engineer.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/perhaps-she-is-white-hat-hacker-not.html

research: About The Use of Dating Apps
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/08/research-about-use-of-dating-apps.html

Kaspersky October 2017 research: Dangerous liaisons: Investigating the security of online dating apps (part 2)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/10/kaspersky-october-2017-research.html

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Perhaps she is a white hat hacker, not a reverse-engineering engineer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47630849

By reverse-engineering popular apps ?
Imagine when you discover fake profiles ... created from inside, from Marketing Units
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/imagine-when-you-discover-fake-profiles.html

Old data about eHarmony Japan big failure. Remember?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/05/old-data-about-eharmony-japan-big.html
Facebook Dating will allow daters to connect with Instagram account
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-will-allow-daters-to.html

Great paper "Couple Similarity on Personality, Moral Identity and Spirituality Predict Life Satisfaction of Spouses and Their Offspring"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-019-00108-8

Although the researchers used the obsolete Big Five model to measure personality of participants, it is a must read for the Online Dating Industry!

Please see also:
PAPER: Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/paper-aspirational-pursuit-of-mates-in.html

A Cultural Algorithm for Determining Similarity Values Between Users in Recommender Systems
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-cultural-algorithm-for-determining.html

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-of.html

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!

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

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. The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".

PAPER "Only the congruent survive - Personality similarities in couples. Personality and Individual Differences"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/paper-partnership-longevity-and.html
PAPER "Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/only-congruent-survive-personality.html

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."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/05/big-punch-to-behavioural-recommender.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/two-papers-debunking-behavioural.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 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

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

Friday, April 26, 2019

Great coverage, big Tinder scam at frequent intervals.

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/tecnologia/como-historia-amor-empezo-tinder-termino-estafa-nid2240469
https://losandes.com.ar/article/un-falso-amor-por-tinder-que-puede-costar-miles-de-dolares

Badoo and Bumble are using facial recognition ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/badoo-and-bumble-are-using-facial.html

Maddie again: MTCH group 2019 still does not check photos.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/maddie-again-mtch-group-2019-still-does.html

MTCH group 2019 still does not check photos.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/01/mtch-group-2019-still-does-not-check.html

A Match "glitch" reactivated a bunch of old profiles, raising concerns about user data
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/04/a-match-glitch-reactivated-bunch-of-old.html

Stalin: MTCH group 2019 still does not check photos.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/01/stalin-mtch-group-2019-still-does-not.html

Revealed: the child victims of Tinder and other dating apps
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/revealed-child-victims-of-tinder-and.html

Please remember the case of Yuliana Avalos and Melissa Midwest former 2014 big lawsuit againts Match Group, third-party scammers in Africa or wherever were creating fake profiles and catfishing with them.
IAC and Match Group were essentially aware of that situation and did nothing to stop it.
The USA Court ruled that IAC and Match Group were not responsible.
Attorney Evan Spencer, said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match Group failed to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that Yuliana Avalos's pictures were being used hundreds of times.
Yuliana Avalos has argued in a former 2014 big lawsuit against Match that photos of her were posted without her permission on the site as part of a scam that drove a man to commit suicide.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Badoo and Bumble are using facial recognition ?

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/badoo-bumble-nude-pictures-dating-apps-a4124756.html
The new Private Detector feature is something Andreev and Wolfe Herd have been working on for a while. In her role as CEO of Bumble, Wolfe Herd has been working with Texas state lawmakers (Bumble’s HQ is in Austin) on a bill to make the sharing of lewd photos a punishable offence.

Perhaps persons with facial surgery or even worse Photoshopped / altered / retouched images (nose, lips, eyebrows) can introduce bias in the algorithm.
Also
* Normally cycling women versus women using hormonal contraceptive methods.
"Ovulatory cycle and changes in face width: How women can tell when other females are ovulating using clues in their face - and how they may then try to hide their partners from the 'threat' of these fertile ladies"
* Her face may be swollen by a pregnancy.
* His / Her face may be swollen due to subclinical hypothyroidism.

NEW Badoo celebrity LookAlike feature
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/new-badoo-celebrity-lookalike-feature.html

about article: Is Bumble Going Public in 2019?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/about-article-is-bumble-going-public-in.html

Please 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)
and
Facebook dating is in big war with Tinder, Badoo, Bumble, PlentyOfFish (POF), OKCupid, Zoosk, Happn, Hinge, Once, CoffeeMeetsBagel (CMB) and many other online social dating applications that are vaporware!

Sink Rate for many online dating sites via Alexa
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/sink-rate-for-many-online-dating-sites.html

Why online dating apps are the real black hole?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/why-online-dating-apps-are-real-black.html

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites

but no one is using the 16PF6 (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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.
but no one is 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.

smartphones have ruined dating ?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dr-ruth-says-smartphones-have-ruined-dating-2019-04-24
Matchmakers should be obsolete. The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.

CONSUMERS ARE HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT ONLINE DATING April 2005
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/consumers-are-having-second-thoughts.html

Matchmakers Emerge as an Antidote to the Agony of Online Dating ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/matchmakers-emerge-as-antidote-to-agony.html
The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Spark Networks April 29, 2019 Conference Call to Discuss 2018 Financials

https://www.spark.net/news-releases/news-release-details/spark-networksr-announces-conference-call-discuss-2018-financial

This 2019, they acquired Zoosk, a rotten company that previously failed its IPO
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/zoosk.com
https://www.similarweb.com/website/zoosk.com#overview

No Q3 or Q4 2018 info about Spark Networks SE
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/no-q3-or-q4-2018-info-about-spark.html

EliteSingles review via Mashable / June 2018
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/elitesingles-review-via-mashable-june.html

Facebook dating is in big war with Tinder, Badoo, Bumble, PlentyOfFish (POF), OKCupid, Zoosk, Happn, Hinge, Once, CoffeeMeetsBagel (CMB) and many other online social dating applications that are vaporware!

Sink Rate for many online dating sites via Alexa
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/sink-rate-for-many-online-dating-sites.html

Why online dating apps are the real black hole?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/why-online-dating-apps-are-real-black.html

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

CONSUMERS ARE HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT ONLINE DATING April 2005

https://www.singleboersen-vergleich.de/dossier-partnervermittlung/us-stanford.pdf

https://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2005/03/yahoo_news_weat.html
https://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/05/weattract_updates_online_dating_whitepaper/

14 long years ago, then Online Dating Association Publishes “Dating 2024” Consultative Document
https://www.globaldatinginsights.com/news/online-dating-association-publishes-dating-2024-consultative-document/

Matchmakers Emerge as an Antidote to the Agony of Online Dating ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/matchmakers-emerge-as-antidote-to-agony.html

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.