about Chief Scientist At eHarmony Cavorts With The ... Facebook

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2018/01/chief-scientist-at-eharmony-cavorts-with-the-facebook.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 Galen Buckwalter did, but using HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)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

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences) or other system that learns your preferences (READ machine learning)
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-of.html
 
Perhaps Dr. Carter can not disclose he could be copycatting WATSON IBM  but using HEXACO model of personality because eHarmony uses BIG FIVE model, aka OCEAN model that is obsolete now!
eHarmony is ONLY a 17+  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. It is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use the Big Five normative test in year 2018.

Viola.AI can not and will not outperform WATSON IBM
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/12/blockchain-dating-app-violaai-is.html

BIG HOAX,  Watson IBM
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/artificial-intelligence-can-watson-save.html


Dr. Galen Buckwalter talks about the HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)
article: Why Brands Need to Understand Personalities in Order to Leverage AI’s Potential
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/article-why-brands-need-to-understand.html
AI, former eHarmony's Chief Scientist and PsyML (machine learning and big data)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/ai-former-eharmonys-chief-scientist-and.html
Soulmates.ai launches to help brands find compatible influencers using AI
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/soulmatesai-launches-to-help-brands.html

For Serious Online Dating Purposes:
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..
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-how-successful-is-digital.html
  Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.html

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

Online Dating apps go for (the money) persons 40 or over years old

Via WSJ Americas in Spanish
http://lat.wsj.com/articles/SB11771317420586403750804582400274161516422

Fresh data about "Match app - Tinder app" war (LATAM Countries)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/fresh-data-about-match-app-tinder-app.html


Match goes for Generation X, 30 - 50 years old users = "named: traditionals".   
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/match-goes-for-generation-x-30-50-years.html

Tinder Brand On Fire? Gives Fuel To Match Group Stock?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/tinder-brand-on-fire-gives-fuel-to.html
Please notice Tinder is in big war with Badoo, and can not outperform it.
And Badoo also owns Bumble.
Match Group, parent company of Tinder, has a big debt of USD 1.2 Billion.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more!
Match Group does not know how to innovate in the Online Dating Industry.

ODI GAME OVER, next will be OPW

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2016/10/a-fond-farewell/

It is said next will be OPW
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/founders-of-idate-online-personals.html

Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish!!!
Year over year the same scratched disk!!!
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2016/08/mobile-dating-trends-and-analysis-mobile-dating-conference-presentation-.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jIjYyqjGwM
 
They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!
About "The social power of algorithms"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/about-social-power-of-algorithms.html

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.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.

“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html

Social dating is vaporware.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/out-of-control-machine-gun-shooting.html
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 and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. 

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 and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance.  
The key to long-lasting romance; COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  
 
Please read: 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
 
The Secret Sauce Behind Online Dating ? There is no one yet!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/the-secret-sauce-behind-online-dating.html

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"

 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.   

 

Founders Of iDate & Online Personals Watch Put Businesses On Sale For Millions ? (via GDI)

http://globaldatinginsights.com/10122015-founders-of-idate-and-online-personals-watch-put-businesses-on-sale-for-millions/


Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish at iDate Conferences.

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2015
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.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
GDI conference at same time and place iDate's ? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/gdi-conference-at-same-time-and-place.html

London 2015 Post-ConferenceS Review 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/london-2015-post-conferences-review.html

Please read: 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

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", not 100% better, 100X better .
The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms. 

Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html   

Interpol Indexing Web Portals on the Darknet

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Interpol-Indexing-Web-Portals-on-the-Darknet/2015/10/01/article3056572.ece

Matching algorithms and data will decide who wins the Online Dating game

Chapter Two of a 50-page report, called The CEO of Love
http://globaldatinginsights.com/20032015-check-out-dating-ceo-industry-trend-report/
http://www.dating-experts.co.uk/Trendreport-EN.pdf

Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, 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.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html 

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY, but ...
the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Please read: 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
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", not 100% better, 100X better, really an INNOVATION.
The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
 

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf

Bitter Pill: The EU regulation MOSS and their implications for the dating industry

http://online-dating-news.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/bittere-pille-die-eu-verordnung-moss.html
translated as (using Google Translate)
EU Regulation MOSS - Consequences for the Online Dating Industry
Online Dating News, Cologne ---- So it does not get boring even in the Internet business, the EU has devised a new scheme. It relates to the place of service in the case of electronic services (MOSS). Why this will lead to a nationwide outcry trading on the internet and also the creators of online dating and flirt portals?

Said "place of performance" is from 1 January 2015, where the customer is located. And that applies its national VAT rate. In plain English: you owe the country the VAT!

"An example of creeps
They operate in Germany a single market, happen to have also a paying customer from Portugal in the database. So then you owe the State Portugal the VAT payable - as high whatever which may just be.
Pathetic consolation: Help with numbers
Kindly, the EU has come up with some simplification, it saves you from having to register in all European countries and crisscross declarations and tax money sent around: There are national collection that make make the redistribution for you.
Say, you need only in German KEA (not at the bird, but in the "Little one stop shop" - no joke that really means so!) And register them then send your quarterly VAT return.
Would you, for example, made in quarter 1/2015 with the Austrians 1,200 euros in sales, you would have the local 20% VAT., so pay 200 euros to the KEA.
Conclusion: Act fast
Ask asap to your accounting system and get yourself the EU national tax rates. Then on to the KEA registration!
And then always diligently pursue the financial news, because if, for example, Finland on 03.01.2015 increased from 24% to 25%, which must of course also be entered at you ..."

Online Dating Insider live again!

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2014/06/dating-industry-update/

Sudden Drop / Sudden Stop in some European online dating sites

Like
eDarling German version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.de

eDarling French version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.fr

EliteSingles UK version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk

Elitesingles Ireland version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ie

MeeticFR
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meetic.fr

NeuDE
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.neu.de

Meetic Affinity French and Spanish versions:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meeticaffinity.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meeticaffinity.es

Something happened.
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/they-do-not-want-to-innovate.html

Please read also:
Alexa, a seismograph station for Internet sites
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/alexa-seismograph-station-for-internet.html

eHarmony Brazil GAME OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/eharmony-brazil-game-over.html

about the recent interview with the CEO of Match Group

via Courtland Brooks' blog.
 http://internetdating.typepad.com/courtland_brooks/2014/05/match-group-interview-with-ceo-sam-yagan.html

My comments are:
eHarmony Inc. launched eH+ some months ago.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/eharmony-plus-eh.html
Match have followed eHarmony into the high-end matchmaking market, partnering with LA-based Three Day Rule.
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/21052014-match-partner-with-la-matchmakers-three-day-rule/

Remember "It's Just Lunch To Face U.S. Class-action Lawsuit"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/new-lawsuit-against-dating-siteagency.html

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.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/like-computers-killed-typewriters.html
"Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:48 am
Yagan's session, titled “Where’s Dating 2.0? The Lack of Innovation in the Online Dating Industry,” will contrast the evolution of other consumer Internet verticals with the relative standstill of online dating sites over the last decade.
.....“Our industry is missing the revolution, focusing on superfluous bells and whistles, like background checks and video-dating while ignoring the needs, desires, and expectations of singles,” said Yagan. “Why is it that sites like Digg and Facebook are free but Match and eHarmony charge almost USD1,000 per year for membership? Our industry must find a way to adapt to the business models and user experiences that singles expect in a Web 2.0 world.” ..."

but ... 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).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/something-big-will-happen-soon.html

I think IAC is going to deactivate Tinder soon or later, it will absorb it and merge with Match mobile (Please see Stream and Mixer features) if Tinder is cannibalizing Match mobile application.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/about-article-match-flirts-with-new.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-mobile-application-at-match.html

Please remember:
When the IAC Personals bought OKCupid (3 years ago) for an astronomical amount of money (USD 90 million), the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission.
IAC Personals backed Tinder instead, as the copycat of Badoo, but it seems there is a divorce between Tinder and Match just now!

Please read:
Report about Q1 2014, IAC (nasdaq IACI)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/report-about-q1-2014-iac-nasdaq-iaci.html

As usual, they do not want to innovate, they want to squeeze their big databases to get all the juice (money) from the wallets of the users.

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", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
 

UK Consumer Law Change soon

via Global Dating Insights

Online Dating Association  is holding a seminar in London about forthcoming changes to UK consumer law.
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/30042014-oda-holding-seminar-on-uk-consumer-law-change/

SUMMER 2014 will end soon, here, in South America.

and eHarmony Brazilian site will close its doors forerver next March 26th 2014, less than 4 years after launchment; during August 2010.

Started:
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/08/eharmony-do-brasil-eharmony-brazil.html

Will end:
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/eharmony-brazil-game-over.html

eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud.  Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. 

If you are a reader from the North Hemisphere, most probably your brain distorts! I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. 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.

What comes 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. 

Affinitas GmbH. will launch in Canada and South Africa soon ?

http://www.praktikumsanzeigen.info/aktuell/stellen/praktikum-medien-information-berlin-15816.html

See this job posting
http://www.edarling.de/jobs_english#CA_SA

Remember:
Affinitas GmbH. has impressive patterns of anomalies consistent with fraudulent practices, like:

#1 Affinitas GmbH. using the Big Five normative test to assess/measure personality of daters at EliteSingles and eDarling sites.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. Now replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

".. the Big Five's Agreeableness and HEXACO's Agreeableness are not identical. The Big Five factors do not include an Honesty-Humility factor, but some of the characteristics belonging to Honesty-Humility are incorporated into the Big Five's Agreeableness factor. Although earlier investigations found only the Big Five factors, more recent studies conducted in various languages (including English) with larger sets of adjectives recovered six factors. "

I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an incomplete model of personality. They are assessing 5 scales and not 6 scales.

#2 Misuse of Big Five normative test by Affinitas GmbH.
The Big Five normative test to assess/measure personality should be used with the correct norm. e.g:
* for EliteSingles UK: English for the United Kingdom and the Norm for the United Kingdom (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the United Kingdom).
* for EliteSingles Ireland: English for Ireland and the Norm for Ireland (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Ireland).
* for EliteSingles Australia: English for Australia and the Norm for Australia (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Australia).
* for EliteSingles New Zealand: English for New Zealand and the Norm for New Zealand (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of New Zealand)
* for EliteSingles Canada: English for Canada and the Norm for Canada (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Canada).
* for EliteSingles South Africa: English for South Africa and the Norm forSouth Africa  (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of South Africa).
* if they accept subscribers from USA: English for United States and the Norm for United States  (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of United States)
and at EliteSingles sites, Affinitas GmbH. WRONGLY uses the Big Five normative test whose Values are referred to "The ELITESINGLES member average".
- French for France and the Norm for France.
- German for Germany and the Norm for Germany.
- Spanish for Spain and the Norm for Spain.
- Italian for Italy and the Norm for Italy.

etc, etc

To clarify better that situation (a comparison with drivers):
Suppose you are citizen of country "A" where speed limit is 70 mph and the population drives at 65 mph average with 2 mph standard deviation (some persons always surpass the speed limit) in a normal distribution,
and you are tested driving at 67 mph so you are OVER the average in 1 standard deviation, you are at 84.1344% over the whole population.
You will score 8 or 9 in a sten scale depending on how it was constructed.
You will be seen as VERY HIGH in that scale.

If you drive in country "B" where speed limit is 75 mph and the population drives at
71 mph average with 2 mph standard deviation (some persons always surpass the speed limit) in a normal distribution,
and you are tested  again driving at 67 mph,  you are UNDER the average in 2 standard deviation, you are at 02.2751% under the whole population.
You will score 1 in a sten scale.
You will be seen as VERY LOW in that scale.

That is why normative tests can not simply be translated, because they need the norm for that test, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released.

#3 The personality of every suggested member is quite different from the personality of the dummy profile created for test purposes. Instead of showing you suggested matches with nearly the same personality pattern as the dummy profile created for test purposes, EliteSingles and eDarling' sites send matches with a different personality pattern than the dummy profile.

#4 See what Alexa shows at these sites:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/edarling.mx
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/edarling.cl
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/edarling.net
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/edarling.it
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/elitesingles.com.au
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/elitesingles.co.nz
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/elitesingles.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/elitesingles.ie
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/eliterencontre.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/prestigesingles.de

Please read:

Just received new legal letter from Affinitas GmbH. via local lawyers!
A 210cm height Astronaut at EliteSingles UK
Some forums with comments saying fake profiles at eDarling Spain
Four of them are from Tehran, Iran
EliteSingles Uk, tallest men in the world
Some articles about Rocket Internet GmbH. and Affinitas GmbH.
Serious patterns of anomalies at a 6 months old site

Will PlentyOfFish collapse this 2014 ???

PlentyOfFish Media owns PlentyOfFish site (POF) that:

- failed to be acquired by IAC Personals several times (nasdaq IACI). The legal letter Match sent to the owners of PlentyOfFish (last April 2010) was the first step to initiate negotiations.
- failed with its Internationalization Plans
- its IPO is inviable. (The same for Zoosk)
- there were some bad news about serial killers at PlentyOfFish.
- tried to be the next "free eHarmony" during 2007 and failed. Now eHarmony, a 13+ years obsolete site is free/freemium.
- failed with the PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, the PlentyOfFish Marriage Predictor and even the behavioural algorithm called UltraMatch.
- also failed with eVow to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
- its management team can not innovate in nothing.
- continually needs to buy traffic. The main secret of PlentyOfFish is: they buy expensive traffic and sell it cheaper, thanks to that it can display ads of paid online dating sites and receive commissions paid from them. PlentyOfFish Media also owns several white label dating sites for that purpose. To send tired daters from free sites to paid online dating sites.
The real secret of PlentyOfFish is: it needs to show ads mainly from online paid sites, then send prospective customers there and receive commissions when they acquire a paid membership.
A new Legislation to rule online dating sites, can hurt free/freemium sites like PlentyOfFish.


http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/evow.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pof.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/pof.com/
the older domain name
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/plentyoffish.com
https://siteanalytics.compete.com/plentyoffish.com/

Predicting 2014 main Online Dating Industry news

- Zoosk IPO should fail (its Management Team can not innovate in the Online Dating Industry).
They had a bunch of investors who were dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell the company to IAC, but if failed, so they plan to sell all shares of the company and recover leveraged money.

- Many social dating applications should collapse, like Badoo, Hinge, HowAboutWe, LikeBright, in the same road as LikeIt (TheCompleteMe)
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.

- Legislation will regulate Online Dating Sites: Sites should disclose active members and delete all bogus/fake/phantom profiles with celebrity photos.

- eH+ (eHarmony Plus) will fail, because USD5,000 for matchmaking  assistance is a robbery.
eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud.
eHarmony is not "scientifically proven" because eHarmony Labs had never proven eHarmony's 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 eHarmony's members.

- Big Five (Big 5, OCEAN model) normative personality test is an incomplete and incorrect model to assess personality of persons. Now replaced by the HEXACO (Big Six) model of personality, but not good for predictive purposes. I suggest the 16PF5 instead.

- Free/freemium proposals like PlentyOfFish / OKCupid and others, will be hurt by Legislation.

- IAC Personals (owns Match, Chemistry, OkCupid, Meetic, Tinder, Twoo and others) reached operating ceiling, no innovations since years!

They can afford USD300 and not USD5,000!

Before reading this post, please read
How to copycat eHarmony, 13+ years old obsolete site.
eHarmony uses Hadoop to extend the range of people they connect ?

"Why Is eHarmony So Successful?"
Using Laurence Iannaccone's original idea that success of fundamentalist churches is explained by the high demands imposed on their members,  Satoshi Kanazawa hypothesizes that a similar self-selection mechanism is at work with eHarmony: "they select their members very carefully, and only admit those who are very committed (or desperate; if anyone who chooses to join eHarmony is truly desperate to get married, then it can potentially and partially explain why it produces such a high proportion of all marriages in the US)."

A Match Made in the Code
eHarmony Admits They Suck, Offers Personal Matchmaking Service For USD5K Instead

eHarmony has launched its new matchmaking service eH+ which is a combination of online dating with an experienced matchmaker who will work personally with the clients. eH+ is priced at USD5K a year.

THAT IS THE SAME TO SAY a computer also uses a typewriter to innovate!
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters. 

eH+ seems to be quite similar to eHarmony Premier
http://www.eharmony.com/landing/premier/e/
http://help-singles.eharmony.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3760/~/what-is-the-eharmony-premier%E2%84%A2-package%3F
 BUT terrible more expensive.

Please notice:
eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site using Big Five traits to measure personality of its members, and Big Five normative personality test is only good for informative/guidance purposes but not good enough for predictive purposes. Many Psychologists began to use the HEXACO model of personality during 2013 to replace the Big Five test, but I suggest to use the 16PF5 test.
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, 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.

eHarmony's algorithm is in the range of showing you 3 most compatible persons per 1,000 persons screened, and with the 16PF5 you can reach 3 most compatible persons per 100,000 persons screened; a 100 times more powerful algorithm (NOT 100% improvement, a 100 X improvement, really an innovation)