TechCrunch article: Facebook should actually be Tinder too

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/14/facebook-matchmaker/
Facebook wants to copycat WATSON IBM, a Personality Based Recommender System.

about Chief Scientist At eHarmony Cavorts With The ... Facebook
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/about-chief-scientist-at-eharmony.html
My bet: He is copycatting WATSON IBM, in same manner as Dr. Galen Buckwalter did, but using HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)

eHarmony and other dating sites are collaborating with big AI players like IBM Watson ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/eharmony-and-other-dating-sites-are.html

Do you remember?
Facebook's Graph Search not good for Online Dating purposes.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/facebooks-graph-search-not-good-for.html

Facebook / “graph search” feature / fun dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/facebook-graph-search-feature-fun-dating.html

Facebook overhauls News Feed in favor of 'meaningful social interactions'
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/facebook-overhauls-news-feed-in-favor.html

Facebook uses GPS, location services to suggest new "friends" via AOL
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/facebook-uses-gps-location-services-to.html

Facebook Is NOT Primed To Disrupt Online Dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/facebook-is-not-primed-to-disrupt.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.
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 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.

New causual dating application: Twine

Another Badoo clone, in this case Twine.

I do not think "real" women would like to use that kind of applications. (Remember some men like to pose as women in casual dating applications)
Casual daters do mostly not want to pay. The IAC uses Tinder as a marketing tool to migrate free users to Match and make them pay there.

Tinder: Badoo clone, casual dating

Just reading again this 2 years old post where it is explained that "the OkCupid team signed a deal to stay on for a year and is focused building a Badoo clone that will get profiles via facebook to compete in " the casual dating / social dating space.

Tinder, dating application from IAC, for casual dating. "online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals.
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.
 

What will come after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.