DNA matching and virtual reality: The world of online dating in 2040 ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12020394/DNA-matching-and-virtual-reality-The-world-of-online-dating-in-2040.html
http://www.eharmony.co.uk/future-of-dating/


Please remember.

eHarmony, is a 15+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.


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". 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/article-sorry-singletons-but-dating.html

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        

SA article "A Closer Look At The Match Group IPO"

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3714876-a-closer-look-at-the-match-group-ipo


Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish.http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/seeking-alpha-article-ipo-preview-match.html

Prospective Investors: What to Keep an Eye On.
Now in a big storm inside Tinder - Match war and Tinder - Bumble war

Nasty Tinder surprise for tech boss after his tall tales from the Dublin Web Summit
http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/nasty-tinder-surprise-for-tech-boss-after-his-tall-tales-from-the-dublin-web-summit-34234550.html

A Book about Tinder - Bumble war. Bumble by Badoo (Russian Mafia of hackers & spies)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/a-book-about-tinder-bumble-war-bumble.html

Unicorns are starting to fade (Vator article)

http://vator.tv/news/2015-11-25-this-year-im-thankful-that-unicorns-are-starting-to-fade


Silicon Valley’s boom? Silicon Valley’s bubble instead!
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose

Vator article: The balloon deflates as investor devalues Snapchat by 25%
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/vator-article-balloon-deflates-as.html

People-to-People Reciprocal Recommenders

Chapter of Recommender Systems Handbook pp 545-567
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4899-7637-6_16

Abstract

People-to-people reciprocal recommenders are an emerging class of recommender systems. They differ from traditional items-to-people recommenders as they must satisfy the preferences and needs of the two parties involved in the recommendation. In contrast, traditional items-to-people recommenders are one-sided and must satisfy only the preference of the person for whom the recommendation is generated. We review the characteristics and present an overview of existing reciprocal recommenders. To illustrate the various aspects of these recommenders and how reciprocity can be taken into account in building and evaluating such recommenders, we present a case study in online dating. We describe our reciprocal recommender algorithm that combines content-based and collaborative filtering and uses data from both user profiles and user interactions. We also study the differences between the implicit and explicit user preferences and show that implicit preferences, learned from user interactions, are better predictors of successful interactions. We conclude by outlining some future research directions.

PAPER A Deployed People-to-People Recommender System in Online Dating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/paper-deployed-people-to-people.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)

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry. 

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns. Oh that is exactly ............ guess ............. yes ........ LIFEPROJECT METHOD, ready since 2001!
All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.
 
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

PAPER "Homogeneity of personal values and personality traits in Facebook social networks" 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/thesis-social-network-based-recommender.html

PAPER Recommender Systems supporting Decision Making through Analysis of User Emotions and Personality 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/paper-homogeneity-of-personal-values.html
ACM RecSys CrowdRec 2015 Workshop  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/acm-recsys-crowdrec-2015-workshop.html

A Book about Tinder - Bumble war. Bumble by Badoo (Russian Mafia of hackers & spies)

Alexa Dell, Sean Rad’s ex-girlfriend and heiress to the Dell computer fortune. When she reached Dell, Wolfe learned “a book was being shopped around” about her legal battle with Tinder and personal life, and that she should expect a “takedown story” coming soon from Terrill. She didn’t know when it was happening, or where it would be published—only that she was once again a target.

It’s this audio recording that Terrill says is proof that Whitney Wolfe is not who she says she is—neither a victim nor a co-founder, but a fraud who parlayed a sex lawsuit into a career boost and fame.


http://gawker.com/tinder-confidential-the-hookup-apps-founders-cant-swip-1733787036
http://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/news/a14962/whitney-wolfe-tinder-interview/

Bumble was backed by Badoo to destroy Tinder.


Russian billionaire backer of Bumble who is also in the spyware business.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/russian-billionaire-backer-of-bumble.html

Russian billionaire backer of Bumble who is also in the spyware business.

Tinder Confidential: The Hookup App's Founders Can't Swipe Away the Past

http://gawker.com/tinder-confidential-the-hookup-apps-founders-cant-swip-1733787036

http://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-jo-sales-responds-to-sean-rad-evening-standard-interview-2015-11

http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/11/22/tinder-ceo-sean-rads-interview-fiasco-supermodels-beg-me-for-sex/

Some operating details from Bumble by Badoo
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/some-operating-details-from-bumble-by.html
 
part of the Bumble - Tinder war
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-bumble-is-tinders-new-feminist.html
 
Zoosk and Badoo --- Badoo and Zoosk. September 2015 decadence  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/zoosk-and-badoo-badoo-and-zoosk.html


Espionage is for economic interests
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/espionage-is-for-economic-interests.html 

Legal Letter Match Group had sent to PlentyOfFish (POF) last

April 2010 about bogus claims, but 5 years later, many of those claims are still present at PlentyOfFish (POF) although the Match Group had acquired POF.

PlentyOfFish (POF) claims "50,000 New Singles Per Day!" but
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/plentyoffish-pof-claims-50000-new.html
  PlentyOfFish 2015 revenue revealed by Match Group.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/plentyoffish-2015-revenue-revealed-by.html

Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/tinder-privacy-leaks-by-henning.html

There's A New Kind Of Online Dating Scam ?

Apparently increasing numbers of men are scamming money from women they've met online - and it's really scary.
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/blogs/551121/online-dating-scam-men-stealing-money.html

Tinder privacy leaks! by Henning Wiechers (Metaflake) 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/tinder-privacy-leaks-by-henning.html

Tinder privacy leaks! by Henning Wiechers (Metaflake)

http://www.singleboersen-vergleich.de/news_einzel_2009/2015-11-16-warnung-tinder-privatsphaere.htm

Also: On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad’s Disastrous Interview
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/tinder-im-an-addict-says-hookup-apps-cocreator-and-ceo-sean-rad-a3117181.html
http://recode.net/2015/11/18/on-eve-of-ipo-match-group-disavows-tinder-ceo-sean-rads-disastrous-interview/
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/18/match-prices-its-ipo-at-12-per-share/
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575189/000110465915079968/a15-16521_16fwp.htm


Child Safety Company Poses As 14-Year-Old Girl On Tinder
http://globaldatinginsights.com/17112015-company-conducts-study-by-posing-as-14-year-old-girl-on-tinder/

Perhaps Tinder can collapse like Skout (problems with minors using it)

Seeking Alpha article: IPO Preview: Match Group 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/seeking-alpha-article-ipo-preview-match.html
Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish.

eHarmony plans to launch its recruitment service - Elevated Careers - in ..... March 2016

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/latestnews/2015/11/19/Matchmaking-seen-potential-game-changer-online-job-search-market
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/los-angeles-based-eharmony-plans-to.html


eHarmony, is a 15+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

eHarmony to Launch New Site for Spanish-Speaking Singles in the U.S. and Around the World
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/eharmony-to-launch-new-site-for-spanish.html

eHarmony to Launch New Site for Spanish-Speaking Singles in the U.S. and Around the World

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151119006272/en/eHarmony-Takes-Step-Globalization-Strategy

Spanish version of eHarmony in progress!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/spanish-version-of-eharmony-in-progress.html

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

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-eharmony-founder-talks.html

eHarmony, is a 15 years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.

eHarmony 15th Anniversary, A BIG HOAX 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/eharmony-15th-anniversary-big-hoax.html
 eHarmony to Launch Globalization Initiative; Company Expects Subscriber Base to Grow 40-50% in 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/eharmony-to-launch-globalization.html

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-4-biggest-eharmonys-copycats.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

Online Dating Brands JDate and ChristianMingle Get Makeovers

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/from-spark-to-fireworks-online-dating-brands-jdate-and-christianmingle-get-makeovers-nyse-mkt-lov-2075260.htm

Spark Networks (NYSE MKT: LOV) Reports Third Quarter Financial Results
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/spark-networks-nyse-mkt-lov-reports.html

Seeking Alpha article: IPO Preview: Match Group

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3697496-ipo-preview-match-group

Match Group has a big debt because they had overpaid for PlentyOfFish.

Match Group (MTCH) raised nearly USD400M in IPO  (via Financial Times)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/match-group-mtch-raised-nearly-usd400m.html

AshleyMadison customers complain of blackmail after hack

Complaints filed with U.S. Federal Trade Commission detail how customers continue to feel after July 2015 attack on adultery website.

http://www.thestar.com/news/privacy-blog/2015/11/ashley-madison-customers-complain-of-blackmail-after-hack.html

AshleyMadison “the most interesting hack” says John McAfee
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/ashleymadison-most-interesting-hack.html

Match Group (MTCH) raised nearly USD400M in IPO

via Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6e624c6-8e60-11e5-a549-b89a1dfede9b.html
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0c74fa14-86e4-11e5-90de-f44762bf9896.html

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575189/000104746915008751/a2226650zs-1a.htm
With 4.7 million paid subscribers, only 7.9% of Match Group's user base is paying for its services.
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001575189&owner=include&count=40
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/mtch-ipo-match-group-next-thursday-nov.html
 
Also:
On Eve of IPO, Match Group Disavows Tinder CEO Sean Rad’s Disastrous Interview
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/tinder-im-an-addict-says-hookup-apps-cocreator-and-ceo-sean-rad-a3117181.html
http://recode.net/2015/11/18/on-eve-of-ipo-match-group-disavows-tinder-ceo-sean-rads-disastrous-interview/
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/18/match-prices-its-ipo-at-12-per-share/
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575189/000110465915079968/a15-16521_16fwp.htm


Child Safety Company Poses As 14-Year-Old Girl On Tinder
http://globaldatinginsights.com/17112015-company-conducts-study-by-posing-as-14-year-old-girl-on-tinder/

Perhaps Tinder can collapse like Skout (problems with minors using it)

http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/02/tinder-under-fire-over-young-teen-users.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/skoutcom/
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/27022014-more-concerns-over-under-18-hook-up-app-use/

PAPER "Homogeneity of personal values and personality traits in Facebook social networks"

Abstract

Focusing on similarity of personal values and of personality traits, we investigated who is friends with whom in Facebook friendships. A Facebook application administered questionnaires and retrieved data on whom in our sample of 3348 participants were friends. On average, participants had 8.7 friends within our sample. People similar to each other, either regarding personal values or personality traits, tended to be friends. Moreover, the effect of similarity was not evenly distributed across the value or trait continuums. Those scoring high on Openness to Change or Self-Transcendence values were more likely to be friends with people sharing these values. Regarding personality, those high in Emotional Stability or Openness to Experience, or low in Extraversion, tended to have similar friends.

You and your friends have very similar minds / FACEBOOK
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/12/you-and-your-friends-have-very-similar.html

PAPER: How do personality traits affect communication among users in online social networks?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/paper-how-do-personality-traits-affect.html


Featured paper: Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/featured-paper-personality-and-patterns.html

Love at First Swipe: Online Dating is About Personality
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/love-at-first-swipe-online-dating-is.html
PAPER "On the similarity between exchangeable profiles .."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-on-similarity-between.html
PAPER Evaluation of Similarity Functions
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html

Please read also
An exercise of similarity.
How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity.
STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY by LIFEPROJECT METHOD.
Personality Distribution Curves using the NORMATIVE 16PF5.
ALGORITHMS & POWER CALCULATION.
Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times.
Why your brain distorts!
Matching Algorithms for the Online Dating Industry (serious daters)  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/matching-algorithms-for-online-dating.html 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-how-dating-companies-are-having.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.
 
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  

After listing in New York's stock exchanges, a bunch of Chinese companies now want out

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-as-china-firms-walk-out-on-wall-st-spurned-investors-demand-payback-2015-11
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/15/us-china-us-buyouts-idUSKCN0T416920151115

article China's IPO curbs risk USD32 billion of US take-private deals
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/article-chinas-ipo-curbs-risk-usd32.html

PerfectMatch GAME OVER

Dr. Pepper Schwartz, brain behind PerfectMatch, had recently published the paper "online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/perfectmatch-another-hoax.html http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/standard-article-online-dating-by-dr.html 
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/13/8035381/online-dating-tips-research
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/science-online-dating-28943268  
http://www.shape.com/lifestyle/sex-and-love/what-your-dating-profile-picture-reveals-about-you


The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests". 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/article-sorry-singletons-but-dating.html

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      

MTCH IPO Match Group next Thursday, Nov. 19.

With 4.7 million paid subscribers, only 7.9% of Match Group's user base is paying for its services.
http://moneymorning.com/2015/11/13/match-com-nasdaq-mtch-stock-price-will-move-on-these-3-factors-following-ipo/

Please see:
Don't Go Out With The Match.com IPO (Seeking Alpha)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/dont-go-out-with-matchcom-ipo-seeking.html

The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/forbes-article-4-reasons-to-swipe-left.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

a thief from UK with 25,000 online dating sites ?

http://realbusiness.co.uk/article/32216-what-the-ipo-of-tinder-owner-match-group-means-for-the-online-dating-sector
http://techcitynews.com/2015/11/13/venntro-launches-online-dating-incubator/

ARTICLE: The love business: How Venntro / Globals Personals (Whitelabel dating) set up a GBP43.2 Million dating network
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-love-business-how-venntro.html


Channel 4 on Venntro / 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

article: "Sorry, singletons, but dating-site algorithms are fairly meaningless"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/sc-dating-algorithms-do-not-work-family-1124-20151112-story.html


Please see:
article "Critics challenge the 'science’ behind online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-critics-challenge-science.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/tinders-new-behavioral-behavioural.html

Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/parody-of-eharmony-settling-settle.html

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-4-biggest-eharmonys-copycats.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/likeli-likeit-likebright-12like-and-more.html

USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.html

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 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.

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

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     

Tinder's "new" behavioral / behavioural matchmaking algorithm (borrowed from Synapse; Match?)

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/tinder-matching-algorithm
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/tinder-update-dating-app-adds-new-information-to-profiles-alongside-new-algorithm-to-avoid-bad-a6730221.html
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/tinder-updates-its-algorithm-and-adds-smart-profiles/
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/11/9706724/tinder-matching-algorithm-education-job-profile

“With the updated algorithm, machine learning technology assesses and interprets the signals sent by our millions of users,” said Tinder CTO

But eHarmony, Match (Synapse) and even Zoosk, OKCupid (SmartPick) and PlentyOfFish (UltraMatch) has been doing the above rubbish for years and cannot outperform STRICT personality based recommender systems.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/21pictures-which-uses-behavioral.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/synapse-match-algorithm.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/zoosk-smartpick-formerly-known-as.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/big-data-use-cases-at-plenty-of-fish.html


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry for years.
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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/likeli-likeit-likebright-12like-and-more.html

USA FTC Chief Technologist Ashkan Soltani On Algorithmic Transparency And The Fight Against Biased Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/usa-ftc-chief-technologist-ashkan.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.


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.

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

Don't Go Out With The Match.com IPO (Seeking Alpha)

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3675516-dont-go-out-with-the-match-com-ipo

"the Match Group is a profitable, growing company with a reliable user base. "
growing company ?
Many if most of their sites are stagnated, and nearly to close forever like Chemistry.
reliable user base ?
90% of their whole database could be phantoms or inactive profiles.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/a-251-page-brochure-from-match-group.html

Unfortunately the Match Group had been doing all wrong, acquiring rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more. Even Tinder will not monetize as expected.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/match-group-mtch-aims-to-raise-usd537.html

The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
 
FORBES article: 4 Reasons To Swipe Left On Match Group's IPO
Four reasons to swipe left
1. Shareholder unfriendly structure
2. Proceeds go to repay parent debt
3. Disappointing valuation
4. Weak underwriters

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/forbes-article-4-reasons-to-swipe-left.html

Vator article: The balloon deflates as investor devalues Snapchat by 25%

Is the era of the sky high valuation coming to an end?
http://vator.tv/news/2015-11-10-the-balloon-deflates-as-investor-devalues-snapchat-by-25

FT article: Silicon Valley’s boom will leave some investors behind
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/ft-article-silicon-valleys-boom-will.html

article at Vator "The private tech bubble is real, but does it matter?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-at-vator-private-tech-bubble-is.html

Silicon Valley’s boom? Silicon Valley’s bubble instead!
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose. 

Please see:
Snapchat, raising another round at a USD16-USD19 billion valuation ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/snapchat-raising-another-round-at-usd16.html
also Snapchat raised a USD200M round from Alibaba
http://vator.tv/news/2015-03-12-snapchat-reportedly-raises-200m-round-from-alibaba

article: The epic rise and fall of Fab is finally complete
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-epic-rise-and-fall-of-fab-is.html 

FT article "Dotcom history is not yet repeating itself, but it is starting to rhyme"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/ft-article-dotcom-history-is-not-yet.html   
 
This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-at-vator-private-tech-bubble-is.html

FORBES article: 4 Reasons To Swipe Left On Match Group's IPO

 Four reasons to swipe left
1. Shareholder unfriendly structure
2. Proceeds go to repay parent debt
3. Disappointing valuation
4. Weak underwriters

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/10/4-reasons-to-swipe-left-on-match-groups-ipo/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/10/4-reasons-to-swipe-left-on-match-groups-ipo/2/
"Blow off this IPO — there are plenty of other fish in the sea."

A 251 page brochure from Match Group with astronomical executive compensations
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/a-251-page-brochure-from-match-group.html

Parody of eHarmony (Settling / Settle)

http://globaldatinginsights.com/10112015-from-the-web-watch-the-advert-for-a-new-spoof-dating-site/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwp1AGaX8NQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95skbeliGI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/dating-site-settlecom_n_4949006.html


eHarmony, is a 15+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget. 
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.

Please see:
article "Critics challenge the 'science’ behind online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-critics-challenge-science.html

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

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-4-biggest-eharmonys-copycats.html

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 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.

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

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    

THESIS Social network based recommender systems

Social network based recommender systems

PAPER: "A New Similarity Measure for User-based Collaborative Filtering in Recommender Systems"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/paper-new-similarity-measure-for-user.html

PAPER: An Improved Collaborative Recommendation System by Integration of Social Tagging Data
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/paper-improved-collaborative.html

Are there any use cases of social network-based Recommender systems?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/09/are-there-any-use-cases-of-social.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).

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/2015/10/paper-recommender-systems-supporting.html  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/paper-evaluation-of-similarity-functions.html

A 251 page brochure from Match Group with astronomical executive compensations

for a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites.

https://es.scribd.com/doc/289171409/Match-Group-Inc-MTCH15C-P

   Match Group, Inc. (MTCH15C)-P

Remember ?
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.