about article: Mystery revealed: Why one woman duped dozens of guys on Tinder

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/mystery-revealed-girl-duped-dozens-guys-tinder/story?id=57352170


Please see: WP redditors made graphics to visualize their dating lives.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/03/wp-redditors-made-graphics-to-visualize.html

The Tinder lawsuit is going to get nasty?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-tinder-lawsuit-is-going-to-get-nasty.html
 
Social dating is vaporware. The Online Dating Industry needs innovations: it is all about strict personality similarity between prospective daters!

"Mr Right or Ms Right" or "the one" or "your soulmate" or "the perfect match" 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 "the one" or "your soulmate" or a "perfect match".
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.

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. 

    
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

Tinder tests two-second looping video profiles to help you 'show more personality' ???

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5581541/Tinder-tests-two-second-looping-video-profiles.html

at Science and Technology section ???

WP redditors made graphics to visualize their dating lives.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/03/wp-redditors-made-graphics-to-visualize.html


Social dating is vaporware. The Online Dating Industry needs innovations!

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. 
    
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

A 4’2" height woman uses Tinder as a social experiment and ...

'I’m a little person who joined Tinder as a social experiment. It’s been ridiculous.'
http://www.upworthy.com/im-a-little-person-who-joined-tinder-as-a-social-experiment-its-been-ridiculous
https://laopinion.com/2017/11/11/una-mujer-de-42-altura-prueba-tinder-y-recibe-comentarios-crueles/

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
Social dating is vaporware.

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

article: Why Tinder won't find you love!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/article-why-tinder-wont-find-you-love.html

Chinese Tinder-like Tantan soon to monetize after raising USD 70 Million Series

http://technode.com/2017/06/21/chinese-tinder-like-tantan-soon-to-monetize-after-raising-usd70m-series-d/

Tantan, the country’s top dating app, announced today that it has raised a USD 70 Million worth in a Series D, raising the startup’s total fund raised to USD 120 Million.
The app chooses to monetize through membership. .... Tantan will explore artificial intelligence technology and expand to new markets in the future in an attempt to enable more accurate and personalized social experience.
Tantan now claimes 90 million registered users. Excluding the fake and banned accounts, the number of valid users boils down to 60 million, roughly the size of the population of Italy. Among them, “post-90s” account for more than 75%. The DAUs reached 6 million and the second-day return rate is around 75%. Users have made over 3 billion matches in total, the firm disclosed.

3 billion matches in total == that is the same to say out of control machine gun shooting flowers (good for nothing, useless).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/out-of-control-machine-gun-shooting.html

Social dating is vaporware.
article: The Rise of Dating-App Fatigue
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/article-rise-of-dating-app-fatigue.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. 

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.   

SA article: Could Government Regulation End The Social Media Growth Story?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4079224-government-regulation-end-social-media-growth-story


Please see KP INTERNET TRENDS

Slides 329, 336 and 337 = Large dotcom bubble in progress and USA big debt!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/kp-internet-trends-2018-next-big-thing.html

New "hola! dating" app from Tramontana Ventures (Spain)

http://en.as.com/en/2016/10/26/football/1477500080_779688.html 

How it works “I’m on the app and the system says ‘Hola’ and gives me a brown-orange colour. The system is giving me a completely random colour,” explains Valdes. You then show that random colour to the person you are interested in and take your conversation into a private channel.

A social dating application quite similar to Happn?

Please remember: Social dating is vaporware.
The key to long-lasting romance; COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests". 


Happn in emergency. Plans to reboot next Q2 2017 if it can!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/happn-in-emergency-plans-to-reboot-next.html

Hinge rebooted as The New Hinge.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/hinge-rebooted-as-new-hinge-but-where.html

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html

article / paper: Male Tinder Users Tend to Have Poor Self-Esteem

http://psychcentral.com/news/2016/08/07/male-tinder-users-tend-to-have-poor-self-esteem/108216.html

about article "I had to ditch all the dating apps so I could find love"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/about-article-i-had-to-ditch-all-dating.html

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

article and paper: Dating Apps Are Basically Useless For Finding Dates, Says Sad New Study
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/article-and-paper-dating-apps-are.html

Facebook’s Algorithm Changes Leave Dating Apps Frustrated By Reach Restrictions.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/facebooks-algorithm-changes-leave.html

article " I tried all the dating apps so you don't have to "
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-i-tried-all-dating-apps-so-you.html

Law article suggests USA FTC goes for Match Group ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/law-article-suggests-usa-ftc-goes-for.html

PAPER A First Look at User Activity on Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/paper-first-look-at-user-activity-on.html

Why Dating On Facebook Is Better Than Dating On Tinder?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/why-dating-on-facebook-is-better-than.html

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


The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests". 

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
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.       

Man Tries Tinder as a Woman and Learns How Horrible It Really Is

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/news/a43086/online-dating-as-a-woman/
http://you.co.za/news/man-sets-up-online-dating-profile-as-a-woman-to-see-how-theyre-treated-the-results-leave-him-shocked/

Match Group Has A Dirty Little Secret (article via SA)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/match-group-has-dirty-little-secret.html

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 and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. 
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

Tinder, online game to waste time.

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-02-11/young-adults-swipe-right-on-tinder-but-is-it-just-a-game

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 and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance.  The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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

LOV app, More social dating vaporware.

Social dating is vaporware.
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/global-dating-insights-2014-industry.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.
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 key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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!


I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

Please see:
More Social Dating Vaporware: Couplelizer
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/more-social-dating-vaporware-couplelizer.html
HINGE: data scientist used to work for the CIA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/hinge-data-scientist-used-to-work-for.html
Twitter teams with IBM for business analytics
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/twitter-teams-with-ibm-for-business.html
IBM Deciphers Personality Types From 200 Tweets ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/ibm-deciphers-personality-types-from.html
Article and Paper: ... computers are better judges of personality than friends and family
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/article-and-paper-computers-are-better.html
More Stupid Investors' series: The League
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/more-stupid-investors-series-league.html
More Stupid Investors' series Hinge and Happn.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/more-stupid-investors-series-hinge-and.html
about Datelytics, new social dating network / part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/about-datelytics-new-social-dating_26.html
LikeIt
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/04/likeit-to-close-down-tomorrow.html
12like, visualDNA and a HOAX
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/06/12like-visualdna-and-hoax.html
The optical illusion of Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-optical-illusion-of-tinder.html

eHarmony Mapping Love with Hadoop ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-mapping-love-with-hadoop.html

Synapse: the Match algorithm
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/synapse-match-algorithm.html

Facebook
PAPER "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-private-traits-and-attributes-are.html

OKCupid
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/okcupid-lied-to-users-about-their-love.html

Zoosk SmartPick
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/zoosk-smartpick-formerly-known-as.html

PlentyofFish
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/big-data-use-cases-at-plenty-of-fish.html
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/07/interview-thomas-levi-pof-online-dating-big-data.html

article: MeetMe Has This Investor Saying I Wish I Never Met You
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-meetme-has-this-investor-saying.html

a new social dating application called Thread that was a old one?

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2010/03/thread-offers-matchmaker-rewards/
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/threadcom/
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/20/smallbusiness/thread_facebook_dating/index.htm?section=money_smbusiness
Thread Ist Kaput
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/02/threadcom-ist-kaput.html

Now a new social dating application called Thread is going to be launched soon? 
http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2014/07/23/zach-dells-startup-thread-is-a-dating-site-just-for-college-students/

Social dating is vaporware.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/about-grouper-shutters-international.html
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 is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/article-about-massive-growth-in-dating.html
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014! 

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

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry 2014 (serious daters)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html

Happn: A Dating App Powered By Real Life Interactions

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/16/happn-is-a-dating-app-powered-by-real-life-interactions/

Real Life Interactions will have 99%+ "divorce rate"

Perhaps Happn is like Zoosk or Datelytics or Hinge or LikeBright. My bet: all of them will end like SmartDate or LikeIt.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/02/smartdate-com-secures-2e-million-in-seed-funding-to-make-you-date-friends-of-your-facebook-friends/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/smartdate-scores-another-e3-5-million-with-the-priceminister-boys/
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2011/11/smartdate-employees-stiffed-vc-rails-against-ceo.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/04/likeit-to-close-down-tomorrow.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.

C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/from-idate2004-to-idate2013-final.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.
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!

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.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlation with quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.
--------------------------------
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.  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html

100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

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

HotOrNot returns like a "living dead"?; powered by Badoo.

 Full article at Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hot-or-not-mobile-relaunch-2014-6
They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/badoo-corporate-freezed-since-feb-2014.html
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
The biggest scammers are not from Ghana or Nigeria. They are precisely marketing executives from big sites. They use credit card billing trickery.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. There is no/weak Legislation, no ID verification, low reliable background checks, no Quality Norms.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/tinder-mix-of-badoo-zoosk-snapchat.html
No one compatibility matching method is Scientifically Proven.
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%). In the same range as searching by your own.
The Online Dating Industry needs a major cataclysm to extinguish the big, old and obsolete dinosaurs.

Please read the article: Why Online Dating Is Dying and Why It's a Good Thing!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/article-why-online-dating-is-dying-and.html

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 and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

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)
If you want to be first in the "personalization arena" == Personality Based Recommender Systems, you should understand HOW TO INNOVATE in the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!

Is LikeBright alive or dead?

 All social dating is vaporware.
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/hinge-not-competing-with-tinder.html
Please see:
LikeBright, same road as TheCompleteMe (LikeIt) ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/likebright-same-road-as-thecompleteme.html
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/likebright-raises/
and

about Datelytics, new social dating network / part 2 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/about-datelytics-new-social-dating_26.html

Hinge Not Competing With Tinder ?

Just seen the article at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.in/QA-The-CEO-Of160Dating-App-Hinge-Tells-Us-Why-Hes-Not-Competing-With-Tinder/articleshow/36310126.cms

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/2014/01/predicting-2014-main-online-dating.html


Please see:
HINGE: data scientist used to work for the CIA 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/hinge-data-scientist-used-to-work-for.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.
The Online Dating Industry needs to kill the Matchmaking Industry, like computers killed typewriters.
Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members (adding up all the ones at eHarmony/EliteSingles/eDarling, Match, Chemistry, Meetic, MeeticAffinity, OkCupid, PeopleMedia’s Communities, PlentyOfFish, Parship/eCift, and others).

The key to long-lasting romance is  STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests"

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF (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! No one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships 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 their members.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/iaci-and-eharmony-usa-sites-big-tv.html



Please see also: Tinder: A mix of Badoo, Zoosk, Snapchat, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and more?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/tinder-mix-of-badoo-zoosk-snapchat.html

Chinese Dating App, "Momo", To File For IPO in USA?

"Momo", I have never heard of it before!
Just reading OPW to learn about "Momo".
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/momo/
http://www.techinasia.com/disappointing-date-momo-english-app-letdown/
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/10/29/momo-english-app/

Who really knows "Momo"? or is using "Momo" in English?
It seems "Momo" is like Tinder.
Will wait until they fill the S1 form.


Zoosk is in its road to the IPO but Zoosk is NOT profitable and will never be profitable, it is only a bubble sustained by a big marketing budget. Investors had put over USD 61 Million and now want to recover that money and after that, they will put Zoosk to sleep. Astonished to see how Zoosk try to sell a failure as a big success citing rubbish statistics from IBISWorld report.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/ibisworld-analyst-eharmony-is-forecast.html

Please read also:
More Big Losses from Zoosk Q1 2014
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/more-big-losses-from-zoosk-q1-2014.html


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

about Datelytics, new social dating network

Datelytics is a new social dating network application to be launched soon.
It will be a "Stupid Investors' series" case of study. 

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. 

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 and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
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.

Please read also: Zoosk S-1/A 1 AMENDMENT NO.1 TO FORM S-1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/zoosk-s-1a-1-amendment-no1-to-form-s-1.html

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.


Please read:
about Datelytics, new social dating network / part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/about-datelytics-new-social-dating_26.html

Stupid investor series: today, LikeBright / part 2

I had posted about LikeBright last January.

Now I had read they received more funds.
LikeBright will be a "Stupid Investors' series" case of study.

If its motto is "you'll be connected with other users who are friends with your Facebook friends" like Hinge, that approach has a 50%+ "divorce" rate.

Please remember: 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. Compatibility is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests"

Tinder is backed by IAC, which owns Match, Chemistry, OkCupid, Meetic, Tinder, Twoo and others.
Tinder has not any revenue. It is free because Tinder and Twoo, are marketing tools to migrate free users to Match/ Meetic and make them pay there. It seems other social dating applications are decaying like Badoo, Zoosk (planning 2014 IPO), Skout, Twine, AreYouInterested, etc.
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.
Remember failed ones? like: LikeIt / TheCompleteMe, Comiingle,  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.
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. Like eHarmony Plus (eH+) that costs USD 5,000!
eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud.

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. 

HINGE: data scientist used to work for the CIA

Just read an article at Business Insider about Hinge.

It says "Our new data scientist used to work for the CIA, catching bad guys," ... "And now he's working on this new algorithm. It's a new world."

I laughed!

Compatibility is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests"

As for Tinder, it is backed by IAC, which owns Match, Chemistry, OkCupid, Meetic, Tinder, Twoo and others.
Tinder has not any revenue. It is free because Tinder and Twoo, are marketing tools to migrate free users to Match/ Meetic and make them pay there. It seems other social dating applications are decaying like Badoo, Zoosk (planning 2014 IPO), Skout, Twine, AreYouInterested, etc.
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.
Remember failed ones? like: 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.

Badoo to reach 200 Million registered persons ?

See how Alexa shows valuable information from Badoo.

Who is the CEO now ?

Last May 2012, TechCrunch reported Badoo Hits 150 Million Users (phantoms ?) It seems other social dating applications are decaying, Tinder is going to be redesigned soon.