Saturday, September 28, 2019

PAPER: A new similarity measure for collaborative filtering based recommender systems




https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950705119304484#!

PAPER: A Study on the Accuracy of Prediction in Recommendation System Based on Similarity Measures
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/paper-study-on-accuracy-of-prediction.html

STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2012/10/strict-personality-similarity-by.html

All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/all-you-need-is-maths-man-using.html



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

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

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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Friday, September 27, 2019

Match Group gets USA DOJ subpoena for documents relating to USA FTC complaint





https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/match-group-subpoenaed-by-doj
https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/28/match-group-gets-doj-subpoena-for-documents-relating-to-ftc-complaint

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 

More about: Dating app maker Match sued by FTC for fraud
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/more-about-dating-app-maker-match-sued.html


Many complaints about Match dot com suggest ... database is full of old & inactive profiles, scammers, fake profiles, etc!
Perhaps Only way to sustain that huge revenue is / WAS creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-better-business-bureau-gives.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

Remember last August 2011 when a U.S. Class Action Called Match a 'Scam' / More than 90% of potential dates are "phantoms," suit charged then Match had morphed its marketing campaign.


 

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

SA article: Facebook Undervalued. Its Dating Service Fills An Underserved Market



https://seekingalpha.com/article/4293516-facebook-undervalued-least-25-percent-dating-service-fills-underserved-market

Facebook May Strike Out in the Dating Game
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-may-strike-out-in-the-dating-game-11568286003

BI article: "all the features that Facebook Dating offers to woo millennials away from rivals like Tinder, Hinge and Bumble"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bi-article-all-features-that-facebook.html


Bloomberg: Russia’s largest social network starts dating app to rival Tinder
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bloomberg-russias-largest-social.html

USA FTC sues Match for deception, unfair practices





https://seekingalpha.com/news/3501812-ftc-sues-match-deception-unfair-practices-mtch-minus-5_7-percent
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/ftc-sues-owner-online-dating-service-matchcom-using-fake-love

article about: "Are online dating sites posting fake profiles to lure subscribers?"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/article-about-are-online-dating-sites.html


Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Forbes article: Virtual Reality Is The Future Of Finding Love ???





https://www.forbes.com/sites/solrogers/2019/09/20/virtual-reality-is-the-future-of-dating
 

Infographic: What Share Of Online Dating Users Is 'Investing in Love'?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/infographic-what-share-of-online-dating.html



2016 article: "Forget online dating, Virtual Reality Dating is the new thing"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/09/article-forget-online-dating-virtual.html


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

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

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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Thursday, September 19, 2019

SA article "Facebook Dating Is A Threat To Match, But Not To Tinder"



https://seekingalpha.com/article/4292534-facebook-dating-threat-match-tinder

Infographic: What Share Of Online Dating Users Is 'Investing in Love'?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/infographic-what-share-of-online-dating.html

Is Facebook Dating Mining For More User Data Or Making Love Matches?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-facebook-dating-mining-for-more-user.html


Facebook May Strike Out in the Dating Game
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-may-strike-out-in-the-dating-game-11568286003

BI article: "all the features that Facebook Dating offers to woo millennials away from rivals like Tinder, Hinge and Bumble"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bi-article-all-features-that-facebook.html


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.

Infographic: What Share Of Online Dating Users Is 'Investing in Love'?




https://www.ibtimes.com/infographic-what-share-online-dating-users-investing-love-2823077
 

Is Facebook Dating Mining For More User Data Or Making Love Matches?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-facebook-dating-mining-for-more-user.html

Most popular online dating apps in the United States as of March 2019
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/most-popular-online-dating-apps-in.html


Is the Honeymoon Over for Dating Apps?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/bi-reportarticle-dating-apps-like.html
Analysts say there are more users switching between apps than new users entering the dating-app market. 
 

Analysts at ProPrivacy say the dating apps collect everything from chat content to financial data on their users — and then they share it.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/analysts-at-proprivacy-say-dating-apps.html




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

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

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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Tomer Garzberg explains his system of online dating, using data to find love ???




https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/tomer-garzberg-explains-his-system-of-online-dating-using-data-to-find-love-c-459309

Is Facebook Dating Mining For More User Data Or Making Love Matches?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/is-facebook-dating-mining-for-more-user.html

All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/all-you-need-is-maths-man-using.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.

 
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 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

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

BI article: "all the features that Facebook Dating offers to woo millennials away from rivals like Tinder, Hinge and Bumble"




https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-dating-how-to-use-features-comparison-tinder-hinge-2019-9
 

Facebook Dating is roping in Instagram to help with its 'secret crush' feature, and it's a smart way to get millennials to return to Facebook
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-dating-secret-crush-instagram-followers-2019-9


Bumble CEO: Facebook jumping into the dating scene is validating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bumble-ceo-facebook-jumping-into-dating.html

Yahoo article: Facebook Dating Vs. Match.com Vs. Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/yahoo-article-facebook-dating-vs.html



Bumble CEO: Facebook jumping into the dating scene is validating



https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/09/11/bumble-ceo-dating-app-connections-romance-squawk-box.html

Bumble 2018 revenue was USD 162 Million, and the company is profitable.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/bumble-2018-revenue-was-usd-162-million.html



"Facebook's dating app has two features that may enable cheaters"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/facebooks-dating-app-has-two-features.html

Monday, September 9, 2019

All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love ???







https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/09/all-you-need-is-maths-the-man-using-equations-to-find-love
https://live.newscientist.com/2019-speaker-programme/genius-guide-to-dating#/


"Mr Right or Ms Right" or "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfectmatch" 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 you "Mr Right or Ms Right"  or "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfectmatch".
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.


The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.  
FUNNY: IDEA's Project 0d8 Helps Dating Services Improve
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html
Improvement is not innovation!

 
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 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
 


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.

 
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 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

Bumble 2018 revenue was USD 162 Million, and the company is profitable.





https://www.fastcompany.com/90396193/inside-bumble-ceo-whitney-wolfe-herds-mission-to-build-the-female-internet
 

Article about "hedonistic life of Bumble's queen bee"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/article-about-hedonistic-life-of.html

"Bumble is now a billion-dollar organization" ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/bumble-is-now-billion-dollar.html
 

Data Engineering in Badoo: Handling 20 Billion Events Per Day
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/08/data-engineering-in-badoo-handling-20.html

Yahoo article: Facebook Dating Vs. Match.com Vs. Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/yahoo-article-facebook-dating-vs.html



BIASED and INCOMPLETE article: "Forbes interviewed 13 former employees of Magic Lab (Badoo, Bumble and others)"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/biased-and-incomplete-article-forbes.html

Badoo under UK fiscal fraud investigation?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/11/badoo-under-uk-fiscal-fraud.html

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Facebook’s secret crush? Maybe it’s Match Group



https://www.fastcompany.com/90400563/facebook-datings-secret-crush-maybe-its-match-group


Facebook Debuts Online Dating In the U.S., Challenging Match and Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/09/facebook-debuts-online-dating-in-us.html


 
FUNNY: IDEA's Project 0d8 Helps Dating Services Improve

https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html
Improvement is not innovation!

 
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!


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.