TechCrunch article about "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age"

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/11/i-watched-hbos-tinder-shaming-doc-swiped-so-you-dont-have-to/


The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-journalist-who-provoked-wrath-of.html

Please see Forbes article: 'Black Mirror' Recap: 'Hang The DJ' Satirizes Dating In The Digital Age
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/forbes-article-black-mirror-recap-hang.html

about article: How to Build the Netflix of Love
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-article-how-to-build-netflix-of.html

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

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

about article: Dallas-based Match Group's bumpy road to the top of online dating

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2018/09/12/even-companies-face-relationship-drama-match-groups-bumpy-road-top-online-dating

Aegis ups Match target to 19% upside
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3389734-aegis-ups-match-target-19-percent-upside

Tinder’s CEO Has Disappointing Victim-Blamey Dating Tips for Women
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/kz5aev/tinders-ceo-has-disappointing-victim-blamey-dating-tips-for-women


Please notice MTCH is mostly owned by IAC and of course IAC is controlled by one man, Mr. Barry Diller (76).
Investors should be cognizant if he is severely ill (lung cancer?) because he manages IAC like a Godfather. Perhaps IAC / MTCH can collapse if he passes away.

MTCH has also big debt in the range of USD 1.3 Billion.

The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-journalist-who-provoked-wrath-of.html

The journalist who provoked the wrath of Tinder is back

with an HBO documentary "Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age", that shows the bleak reality of dating apps.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hbo-documentary-swiped-shows-dark-side-of-tinder-and-dating-apps-2018-9

Bumble is waiting for Facebook dating feature
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/09/bumble-is-waiting-for-facebook-dating.html

Why Tinder DOESN'T work for Long Term Mating:
Study says evaluating someone based on their physical attractiveness alone is 'pointless'
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/06/why-tinder-doesnt-work-for-long-term.html


about article "Soros: Beware IT Monopolies Facebook, Google"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-article-soros-beware-it.html

Screenshots from Hinge rebooting / part 1
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/09/screenshots-from-hinge-rebooting-part-1.html

article Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2015/08/article-tinder-and-dawn-of-dating.html

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

Tinder users: Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths knows who you should marry ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/tinder-users-cognitive-scientist-tom.html

PAPER and article about "Tinder is for instant gratification only"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/paper-and-article-about-tinder-is-for.html

Please remember: Tinder was created as copycat of Badoo!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/tinder-boost-to-boost-match-group.html

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

Thesis / Paper: A STUDY OF MOMO AND THE STIGMA OF “FLIRTING APPLICATION”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/thesis-paper-study-of-momo-and-stigma.html

PAPER Tinder: True Love or a Nightmare?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/paper-tinder-true-love-or-nightmare.html

Why Tinder is making women MISERABLE: Men swipe right for an ego boost with no intention of speaking to matches
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/why-tinder-is-making-women-miserable.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
 
Social dating is vaporware.

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

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

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".

Meet the woman revolutionising online dating ?

http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/news/features/2016/03/09/bumble-feminist-app-interview-with-whitney-wolfe

"used by over 50 million people with 12 million matches aka 'connections' a day. " It is like a machine gun shooting flowers (good for nothing, useless).
 
Bumble launches BFF (Badoo Friends Finder), a feature to find new friends
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/bumble-launches-bff-badoo-friends.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".

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!  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.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”

  
Please read "LIFEPROJECT METHOD versus eHARMONY"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.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

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.  

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.