Sunday, June 21, 2015

Social networking meets recommender systems: survey

http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJSNM.2015.069773


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 the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!  

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html

Thursday, June 18, 2015

IACI: Why Doesn't Tinder Kindle InterActiveCorp'S Fire?




Interactive Corp Presentation – Long Tinder: IRA Sohn Conference 2015 [Slides]

    This is old news. I'd bit a little shocked if this happened anytime soon (although I could be wrong...they may be desperate to make it happen. If they did try and push it through it would be rather bearish in my opinion, as to me it would suggest Match is about to fall off a cliff and they want to cash in while they can)

    Three problems from my vantage point. 
    One: they have a ton of "unallocated corporate expense" that makes all their segments look more profitable than they really are. If you split the companies up, you probably actually have to add MORE expense (reverse synergies), and you'd have to allocate that corporate expense somewhere. Now, this happens in any split (although I would argue it's way more severe for IACI), so maybe this piece isn't a dealbreaker.
    Second, though, is what you have leftover of core IACI when you do this. It's basically a bunch of junky businesses that are either money losing or declining and secularly challenged. IACI is able to hide some of this via Match profitability.
    Third, by their own admission, Match is in "a transition year." It would be weird to me if they tried to pull off this split during a self admitted transition year.

    It took my breath away a little bit with how much they are charging for Tinder. I'm not sure what to make of it. They must think they have a certain small % cohort who will pay almost anything to swipe. I continue to think Tinder is by far the least efficient way to find a date online.
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 "they may be desperate to make it happen. "
I replied: Perhaps they are desperate to make it happen.
Diller is over 73 and per recent photos he looks pretty haggard.
Perhaps someone inside the IAC knows he could die soon, and the IAC could collapse, because he is like a Godfather.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

article at vator How does Zoosk make money?


http://vator.tv/news/2015-06-13-how-does-zoosk-make-money


No IPO for Zoosk

RESEARCH ARTICLE Explaining Entrepreneurial Status and Success

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Explaining Entrepreneurial Status and Success from Personality: An Individual-Level Application of the Entrepreneurial Orientation Framework


http://www.timvantilborgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/247-875-1-PB1.pdf

Several Academics had investigated the relationship between Entrepreneurship and Personality Traits.
Some papers:
- The Entrepreneur's General Personality Traits and Technological Developments
- Which Big-Five personality traits drive entrepreneurial failure in highly innovative industries?
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS: A BEHAVIORAL GENETICS PERSPECTIVE
- Entrepreneurial tendencies of aspiring human resources in India: a multivariate analysis
- Creativity among entrepreneurship students: comparing engineering and business education

Moreover prospective entrepreneurs score different from prospective managers / businessmen / businesswomen.
Prospective entrepreneurs mostly score VERY LOW in some specific variables I and M and VERY HIGH in E, Q1 and Q2, like this 16PF5 personality pattern
A:5.B:8.C:7.E:10.F:3.G:8.H:8.I:2.L:7.M:2.N:5.O:5.Q1:10.Q2:9.Q3:5.Q4:4"

Friday, June 12, 2015

FT reports: Inventions and Patents


http://www.ft.com/intl/reports/inventions-patents


Erick Schonfeld had written last 2011 an interesting article about "The Terrible Cost Of Patents" at TechCrunch.

* We are in the middle of a patent bubble. 
* Technology companies are spending billions of dollars on assets which they need primarily to defend themselves against the rising tide of patent litigation, they won't invest in new products, new jobs, new facilities or other economically productive activities. And by and large, they will not use those patents to create new products.
* What you and I might consider an improvement, a patent lawyer might consider infringement. 
* Patents were originally conceived to protect inventors—people and companies who contribute to the advancement of society by creating new products. But in the past decade, something went horribly wrong. Patents are increasingly became nothing more than financial and legal weapons, to be amassed in portfolios by "non-practicing entities" (i.e. patent trolls) and used to extort protection money from economically productive companies. 

Jiayuan is still running at an operating loss

https://www.techinasia.com/evolution-chinas-dating-apps/

article China lures tech firms back from NY USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/article-china-lures-tech-firms-back.html

Please see also:
OVER 133 Million INACTIVE profiles at Chinese site Jiayuan!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/over-133-million-inactive-profiles-at.html

MOMO by Alibaba, from unprofitability to high profitability?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/momo-by-alibaba-from-unprofitability-to.html

iDate China 2015, Online dating websites facing tougher regulation
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/idate-china-2015-online-dating-websites.html

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Tinder Fired Six Employees For The Company To Evolve?


Tinder lays off 10% of its workforce, including three marketers and three engineers, in hopes to “evolve” its business.


My bet: Tinder is like Chatroulette but it will collapse like Skout.

Execs arrested from scam dating sites that had 2.7 Million users and only one female member?


Perhaps quite similar to WhiteLabelDating by Global Personals Ltd. in UK!

Please see:
USA Fraud Agency Call On Dating Industry To Improve Fight Against Scammers (via GDI)

Suspicious situation / attitude from UK based firm which acquired both German based: Parship and ElitePartner.

Both Parship and ElitePartner are 10+ years old obsolete sites and hoaxes based on Scientific frauds.

Oakley Capital has NO experience at all in the Online Dating Industry. Not sure why they had acquired those rotten companies?

Something to investigate further!

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/german-online-dating-site-elitepartner.html

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

German online dating site ElitePartner sold?


It is big hoax and fraud. It has no Scientific basis. 
Euros 22Million for that obsolete site?
http://online-dating-news.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/elitepartner-verkauft-oakley-holt-sich.html

http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/tomorrow-focus-elitepartner-verkauf

ElitePartnerDE / Screenshots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/elitepartnerde-screenshots.html

Parship, 14+ yeas old and obsolete site and big HOAX, sold
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/parship-14-yeas-old-and-obsolete-site.html

PAPER Personalized Recommendation Systems: An Application in Case-based Reasoning



http://www.atlantis-press.com/php/download_paper.php?id=23021

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 the ............ Online Dating Industry first of all!  

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html


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 correlationwith 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.



Sunday, June 7, 2015

New Book on Love and Online Dating

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/06/read-aziz-ansari-on-love-and-online-dating.html

Aziz Ansari’s first book, Modern Romance: An Investigation, comes out on 6/15, but you can read an excerpt today at Time Magazine.
http://time.com/aziz-ansari-modern-romance/
Ansari and sociologist Eric Klinenberg talked to people throughout the world in this humorous study on modern day romance’s relationship with technology, from social media and online dating sites to hook-up apps like Tinder.


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.
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.

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.  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!

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 correlationwith 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.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html  






Is Tinder guilty of STD increase / spike ?

The dating app Tinder is widely used by people to cheat on their spouses but its co-founder insists it is changing the nature of courtship, enabling us to find more compatible partners before we tie the knot.


but ....

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.
 

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 

Thursday, June 4, 2015

USA Fraud Agency Call On Dating Industry To Improve Fight Against Scammers (via GDI)





Please see:



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.

 
Please remember:
Channel 4 on Globals Personals (Whitelabel dating)
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2012/11/uk-global-personals-allegedly-uses-fake-profiles.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/fools-for-love-how-one-internet-dating-firm-dupes-clients
It says 13,000 + sites but .......
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/it-says-13000-sites-but.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/entrepreneur-of-year-laundering-money.html

Ashley Madison: "The dispute began when Silva — who came to Toronto from Brazil — sued her former employer in 2012, alleging she seriously hurt her wrists and forearms typing up 1,000 "fake female profiles" over a few weeks for a new Portuguese-language version of the site."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/lawsuit-against-dating-site-for-married.html

JDI Dating Fined USD616K For Fake Profiles
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/10/jdi-dating-fined-616k-for-fake-profiles.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/online-dating-scam-alert-jdi-dating.html
 
Facebook In Argentina Fined Over Fake Profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/facebook-in-argentina-fined-over-fake.html

BBC investigation over Cupid PLC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23409947
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21366326
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23425366
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/how-alexa-shows-bbc-of-london-uk.html

and

Match in USA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/photos-posted-match-led-suicide-model-article-1.1527230 

Evan Spencer, had said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match fail to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that her pictures were being used hundreds of times. 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/bad-news-big-lawsuit-against-match.html 
Last August 2011 when a U.S. Class Action Called Match a 'Scam' / More than 90% of potential dates are "phantoms," suit charged then Match had morphed its marketing campaign.


As usual, they can win in Court but they could be incinerated by Journalists or killed by power of word of mouth!

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.
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.

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

Chinese Online Dating Market (Bloomberg article)


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-03/in-china-a-surfeit-of-online-dating-startups

Perhaps Chinese Government will launch its own online dating site and close all others as:
Internet dating website launched by state in Iran (BBC article)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/internet-dating-website-launched-by.html

Please see also:
MOMO by Alibaba, from unprofitability to high profitability?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/momo-by-alibaba-from-unprofitability-to.html

iDate China 2015, Online dating websites facing tougher regulation
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/idate-china-2015-online-dating-websites.html