If The Future Of Dating "Hinge" On Facebook

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackrogerseurope/2018/06/22/does-the-future-of-dating-hinge-on-facebook/1/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackrogerseurope/2018/06/22/does-the-future-of-dating-hinge-on-facebook/2/

AI to this point has generally only been used by dating companies to identify how desirable users are in an attempt to provide better matches, with even the biggest dating apps in the world hitting a wall when it comes to predicting compatibility of matches.

about Forbes article: Tinder's New Crown App Is Regression Rather Than Revolution
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/about-forbes-article-tinders-new-crown.html

"Match Group CEO Isn't Worried About Facebook's Dating Feature"? via Bloomberg
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/match-group-ceo-isnt-worried-about.html

Match Group acquires 51% stake in NYC-based dating app Hinge
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/match-group-acquires-51-stake-in-nyc.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.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
   
Please see: 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
 

SA article: Tinder launches Picks to take on Coffee Meets Bagel

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3365848-tinder-launches-picks-take-coffee-meets-bagel

Nothing new or innovative. That feature, new "cherry picked matches every 24 hours", is offered by several online dating sites, like eHarmony and EliteSingles /SilverSingles since years.

Match Group acquires 51% stake in NYC-based dating app Hinge
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/match-group-acquires-51-stake-in-nyc.html

Match Group acquires 51% stake in NYC-based dating app Hinge

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3365357-match-group-acquires-stake-nyc-based-dating-app
"Additional terms not disclosed.  "
Same as when Match Group "acquired" HowAboutWe 4 long years ago.
(It was given nearly as free and slowly extinguished)

http://www.businessinsider.com/howaboutwe-iac-acquisition-2014-6
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2014/07/iac-bought-in-part-online-dating.html
It is not a case like OKCupid or PlentyOfFish acquisition.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/04/match-group-new-ceo-for-plentyoffish-pof.html
 
Hinge: A two old months interview where the CEO explains 
he can not beat Tinder and will waste over USD 20 Million ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/hinge-two-old-months-interview-where.html  


Perhaps this acquisition is related to: Online dating giant Match Group hit with NEW patent infringement lawsuit
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/online-dating-giant-match-group-hit.html




Match Group CEO will be GAME OVER soon? as per this interview
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/match-group-ceo-will-be-game-over-soon.html
 
The Match Group overpaid for PlentyOfFish last July 2015 (It was insane, USD 575 Million for PlentyOfFish that past its prime 4 years ago).
The Match Group had been doing all wrong, acquiring rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.

Match user alleges site spams paying users with fake profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/match-user-alleges-site-spams-paying.html

HowAboutWe, defunct

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.howaboutwe.com

More than a year ago; IAC bought in part online dating service HowAboutWe
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/iac-bought-in-part-online-dating.html

The Match Group had been doing all wrong, acquiring rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.
They Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more. Even Tinder will not monetize as expected.
The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/iacinteractivecorp-downgraded-to-sell.html 

IAC bought in part online dating service HowAboutWe

http://seekingalpha.com/news/1842755-iac-buys-dating-service-howaboutwe
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/digital-love-consolidated-iac-buys-howaboutwe-dating-site/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
From
OPW and Crunchbase
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/iac-to-acquire-howaboutwe.html
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/howaboutwe

HowAboutWe received over USD22 Million as venture capital.
A comment at OPW from
 " Jeff R said... Lets be honest - they agreed to pay the bills, take over the business and hire 5 people...not exactly an "acquisition" "

Do you remember
the SmartDate
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/11/smartdate-employees-stiffed-vc-rails-against-ceo.html
and
LikeIt
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/04/likeit-to-close-down-tomorrow.html
cases?
It seems VC investors agreed to show a big success, and no more failures.
They should show HowAboutWe as successfully sold to IAC, not closed as SmartDate or LikeIt!



They acquire because they can not innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/online-dating-is-broad-concept.html
The average dater belongs to 4 o 5 online dating sites at the same time.


During 2011 HowAboutWe received a series B USD15 Million investment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-year-of-crazy-growth-that-led-to-howaboutwes-new-15-million-series-b-round-2011-11
Last year, 2013, "HowAboutWe Internationalized Its Dating App, Went Entirely Free In 30+ Countries"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/howaboutwe-internationalizes-its-dating.html
HowAboutWe is performing as a social dating site.

All social dating is vaporware.
Many social dating applications should collapse soon, like Badoo, Hinge, HowAboutWe, LikeBright, in the same road as LikeIt (TheCompleteMe).
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-iac-nasdaq-iaci-to-acquire.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/is-iac-going-to-pay-bribery-to-some-vc.html

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As for Tinder:  "In the real transaction, which happened quickly several weeks ago, well-known Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya sold his 11 percent stake in Tinder to IAC for about USD55 million."
http://recode.net/2014/04/11/hot-but-not-that-hot-tinder-stake-sale-puts-valuation-of-whole-startup-at-500-million/
http://seekingalpha.com/news/1671873-re-code-tinder-valued-at-500m-in-deal-iac-owns-70-percent-stake
That deal was  exactly done some days BEFORE the famous "Tinder Lawsuit" was filed.

"Tinder Drama" is like a "Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident" in Silicon Valley!
It will be remembered for years.
My bet: the IAC will "discretely bury" Tinder soon, it will absorb it and merge with Match mobile (with Stream and Mixer features) as soon as possible.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/new-articles-and-others-if-tinder-had.html


Please read also:
Zoosk to run out of money soon? Zoosk IPO delayed?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/zoosk-to-run-out-of-money-soon-zoosk.html

Is the IAC going to pay a bribery to some VC investors from HowAboutWe?

From
OPW and Crunchbase
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/iac-to-acquire-howaboutwe.html
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/howaboutwe

HowAboutWe received over USD22 Million as venture capital.
A comment at OPW from
 "
Jeff R said...

Lets be honest - they agreed to pay the bills, take over the business and hire 5 people...not exactly an

"acquisition"
"

Do you remember
the SmartDate
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/11/smartdate-employees-stiffed-vc-rails-against-ceo.html
and
LikeIt
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/04/likeit-to-close-down-tomorrow.html
cases?


How much had the IAC paid for 10% of Tinder?
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/04/iac-to-buy-tinder-shares-5-billion-valuation.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html
and

How much does the IAC plan to pay for HowAboutWe?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-iac-nasdaq-iaci-to-acquire.html
It seems VC investors agreed to show a big success, and no more failures.
They should show HowAboutWe as successfully sold to IAC, not closed as SmartDate or LikeIt!

Every time the IAC acquires a big online dating site, it is like if they were paying a bribery to the VC investor who had previously invested in that big online dating site.

The IAC (nasdaq IACI) To Acquire HowAboutWe ?

http://www.businessinsider.com/howaboutwe-iac-acquisition-2014-6

Every time the IAC acquires a big online dating site, it is like if they were paying a bribery to the VC investor who had previously invested in that big online dating site.

Recently I blogged about "Will IAC Buy SparkNetworks? My bet: NO"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/will-iac-buy-sparknetworks-my-bet-no.html

They acquire because they can not innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/free-vs-paid-sites.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/iac-buys-20-stake-in-zhenai.html

"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/online-dating-is-broad-concept.html
The average dater belongs to 4 o 5 online dating sites at the same time.


During 2011 HowAboutWe received a series B USD15 Million investment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-year-of-crazy-growth-that-led-to-howaboutwes-new-15-million-series-b-round-2011-11

Last year, 2013, "HowAboutWe Internationalized Its Dating App, Went Entirely Free In 30+ Countries"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/howaboutwe-internationalizes-its-dating.html
HowAboutWe is performing as a social dating site.

All social dating is vaporware.
Many social dating applications should collapse soon, like Badoo, Hinge, HowAboutWe, LikeBright, in the same road as LikeIt (TheCompleteMe).
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/hinge-not-competing-with-tinder.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/predicting-2014-main-online-dating.html

Do you remember when the IAC acquired SinglesNet 4 years ago?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/confrirmed-match-com-acquires-singlesnet/
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2010/02/iacs-matchcom-to-acquire-singlesnet-.html
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2010/04/singlesnet-experiencing-post-acquisition-woes/
Kiss (f.k.a. SinglesNet) GAME OVER
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/kiss-fka-singlesnet-game-over.html
Please read also: article "IAC Will Turn Match Dating Service Into a Separate Business" / part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/article-iac-will-turn-match-dating.html
A new mobile application at Match ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-mobile-application-at-match.html

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

Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!  
  
Please see also:
My answer to the Topeka Analysis: Why Investors Should NOT Be Enthusiastic About Tinder.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/my-answer-to-topeka-analysis-why.html

HowAboutWe Internationalizes Its Dating App, Goes Entirely Free In 30+ Countries ???

Article at TechCrunch

For "Internationalization", they should learn from Badoo and Zoosk: in decadence now, Be2 that failed; and others.

HowAboutWe is a dating feature mostly offering  "Go on dates with people who like what you like" but If man A likes playing cards and woman B also likes playing cards, that does not mean man A likes woman B, or woman B can like man A with the same intensity or interest.

Not sure if HowAboutWe is profitable or not, but mobile applications like them are marketing tools to migrate free users to paid online dating sites, like Tinder and Twoo useful to migrate users to Match and Meetic, and make them pay there. It seems other social dating applications are decaying fast, like Badoo, Zoosk, Skout, Twine, AreYouInterested, etc.

Lots of others had failed like: 1Mind, LikeIt / TheCompleteMe,  Comiingle, LikeBright, Perceptual Networks, Zingl, Engage (then rebranded to Ignighter group dating, then rebranded again to StepOut), Thread, Triangulate, Gelato (then rebranded to Twnty), WooMe, 12Like, LittleHint, SmartDate  and others.

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. The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment: Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. (Please read: The Unsurprising Trend of Online Dating 'Going Offline' ) 

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. Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
 
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! 

Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia's Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).
The market remains enormous for new players.  

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

stupid investors, they will loose USD 15 million

HowAboutWe promotes "Go on dates with people who like what you like"
but If man A likes playing cards and woman B also likes playing cards, that does not mean man A likes woman B, or woman B can like man A with the same intensity or interest.

HowAboutWe is a dating feature, any big online dating site can copy that.

My bet: HowAboutWe will peak and decay like Zoosk during 2010, in the same road as WooMe, 12Like, LittleHint, Zin.gl, SmartDate, Ge.la.to (then rebranded to Twnty) , Triangulate, Engage (then rebranded to Ignighter group dating) and Thread, even like Chatroulette.


Remember:
Social networking/applications could merge with online dating for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification.
Social networking and online dating for serious daters are like water and oil, they will never mix.
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.
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

HowAboutWe

HowAboutWe promotes "Go on dates with people who like what you like"

but If man A likes playing cards and woman B also likes playing cards, that does not mean man A likes woman B, or woman B can like man A with the same intensity or interest.