Tuesday, October 31, 2017

"how some dating apps in Brazil siphon personal information

without the users’ knowledge, in some cases for resale."
http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/how-brazilian-women-are-fighting-back-against-data-theft/80219

California updates dating services contract law to include sites like Match and eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/california-updates-dating-services.html


article: Better Business Bureau gives Match.com "F" rating
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/article-better-business-bureau-gives.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/new-lawsuit-against-match-group-inc.html 


Consumer advocates complain about privacy at online dating sites in Germany.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/consumer-advocates-complain-about.html

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

Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online? (part 1)
Kaspersky August 2017 research: Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/kaspersky-august-2017-research.html


Perhaps many of those dating apps are not interested at all in security.
Moreover, they could be involved with a mafia of white hat hackers in the spyware business.

https://globaldatinginsights.com/2017/10/30/we-visited-bumbles-pop-up-space-in-london/ 

Consumer advocates complain about privacy at online dating sites in Germany.





http://www.silicon.de/41662135/verbraucherschuetzer-bemaengeln-datenschutz-bei-online-dating-sites/
In addition to the relaxed handling of data protection are mainly complaints about fake profiles with fictitious data.
https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/aktuelle-meldungen/digitale-welt/onlinedating-abzocke-fakes-und-schlechter-datenschutz-19394

If Alexa clearly shows EliteSingles USA churn rate 87% every 5 months!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/if-alexa-clearly-shows-elitesingles-usa.html



And please see also:  
EliteSingles and TinEye Reverse Image Search
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/elitesingles-and-tineye-reverse-image.html



EliteSingles USA compared to tallest 2 active USA NBA players 221 cm (7 ft 3 in).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/elitesingles-usa-compared-to-tallest-2.html 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/if-elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-creates.html

7ft 7in British actor; the UK's tallest man, dies of heart failure, aged 36 / Please compare with EliteSingles UK and USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/7ft-7in-british-actor-uks-tallest-man.html

Sunday, October 29, 2017

about article: "Relationship quotient: a science of love"




We often underestimate the need to match relationship quotients among couples because they usually aren’t as apparent as body mass indices or bullet points on a resume
http://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/RR7ZyNk2aJspXs0x1EzYIO/Relationship-quotient-a-science-of-love.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!!!
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 Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"
    
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
 


Contradictory information from eHarmony and PROOF of FRAUD
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/contradictory-information-from-eharmony.html
Proof eHarmony is intoxicated with "Big Data Analysis"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/proof-eharmony-is-intoxicated-with-big.html

Thursday, October 26, 2017

SA article: Don't Commit To Match Group (At Least Not Yet)





https://seekingalpha.com/article/4116894-commit-match-group-least-yet

"Six years is an eternity in the technology world"
Perhaps a big scandal in the Online Dating Industry can happen soon?

Kaspersky October 2017 research: Dangerous liaisons: Investigating the security of online dating apps
Researchers Hack Tinder, OkCupid, Other Dating Apps to Reveal Your Location and Messages
https://securelist.com/dangerous-liaisons/82803/
Kaspersky August 2017 research: Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online?
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/online-dating-report/

Perhaps many of those dating apps are not interested at all in security.
Moreover, they could be involved with a mafia of white hat hackers in the spyware business.



SA article: Match Group - Societal Trends Foreshadow Growth Inflection
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/sa-article-match-group-societal-trends.html


Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Kaspersky October 2017 research: Dangerous liaisons: Investigating the security of online dating apps (part 2)



Researchers Hack Tinder, Ok Cupid, Other Dating Apps to Reveal Your Location and Messages
https://securelist.com/dangerous-liaisons/82803/
http://mashable.com/2017/10/24/dating-apps-tinder-bumble-hack/
https://hipertextual.com/2017/10/investigadores-hackean-tinder-otras-apps-revelar-exploits
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-hack-tinder-ok-cupid-other-dating-apps-to-1819803674
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/seguranca/123431-kaspersky-hackeia-tinder-badoo-dados-sensiveis-usuarios-descobertos.htm

Security researchers have uncovered numerous exploits in popular dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and OK Cupid. Using exploits ranging from simple to complex, researchers at the Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab say they could access users’ location data, their real names and login info, their message history, and even see which profiles they’ve viewed. As the researchers note, this makes users vulnerable to blackmail and stalking.

  •         Tinder for Android and iOS
  •         Bumble for Android and iOS
  •         OK Cupid for Android and iOS
  •         Badoo for Android and iOS
  •         Mamba for Android and iOS
  •         Zoosk for Android and iOS
  •         Happn for Android and iOS
  •         WeChat for Android and iOS
  •         Paktor for Android and iOS
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/dating-apps-threats/19905/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/online-dating-lies/19703/
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/tinder-bots/14697/
 


Perhaps many of those dating apps are not interested at all in security.
Moreover, they could be involved with a mafia of white hat hackers in the spyware business.


Badoo is in big war with Tinder (Match Group). When Match Group (fka IAC Personals) bought OKCupid (6+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission.
IAC / Match Group “acquired” HatchLabs to “develop” Tinder copycat of Badoo.
Then Badoo backed Bumble to fight back and destroy Tinder (last December 2014).


Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online? (part 1)
Kaspersky August 2017 research: Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/kaspersky-august-2017-research.html


Security article: Can Online Dating Apps be Used to Target Your Company?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/security-article-can-online-dating-apps.html



The Meet Group’s CEO to Speak at NOAH17 London Conference ???




http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171024005502/en/Meet-Group%E2%80%99s-CEO-Geoff-Cook-Speak-NOAH17

NEW Lovoo review as part of Meet Group
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/new-lovoo-review-as-part-of-meet-group.html



The Future of Online Dating at NOAH 2017 London Conference???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/the-future-of-online-dating-at-noah.html


-------------------


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
 
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"
    
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
   

 
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

Monday, October 23, 2017

NEW Lovoo review as part of Meet Group




https://www.netzwelt.de/lovoo/testbericht.html
https://seekingalpha.com/filing/3733637

What we do not like:
Attention! If you delete your profile at Lovoo, you must cancel the VIP subscription separately.

Lovoo urges you as a user formally to spend money. In the test, nearly half an hour after our registration, we received numerous push messages. They pointed out that a different user is looking at our profile. The text has always been formulated in such a way that it suggests a great interest in our profile. The goal of Lovoo is obviously to push us to buy credits to reveal the profile. Interestingly, the push messages ebbed in the test then also when we had a positive credit balance.

Both the purchase of credits as well as the VIP status, Lovoo's credit policy is not transparent. In the test, similar to Tinder, prices fluctuated depending on the terminal used. While we were on our Android smartphone for a month VIP membership to pay 11.99 euros, Lovoo offered us on the Windows computer the same subscription for 8 euros. So it is worth comparing. Lovoo also earns money with advertising - both on the desktop and in the app. The ads are decent but not intrusive.

Test score 6.2 of 10
Reviewed by Jan Kluczniok
8.0 / 10 Registration 

9,0 / 10 Service
4,0 / 10 Cost & Financing
4,0 / 10 Seriousness



Some Remarks about Meet Group to acquire German Dating App LOVOO (via SA)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/some-remarks-about-meet-group-to.html

Saturday, October 21, 2017

about article "Meet the man behind Badoo, the world’s biggest dating app"






https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-andrey-andreev-the-man-behind-badoo-the-worlds-biggest-dating-app-f3qql99zs

‘the most mysterious businessman in the West’

Badoo, is available in 190 countries and has seven times more users than Tinder.

"The next big thing in dating, he says, is going to be lookalikes"

That is only for fun, not serious dating.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/bumble-serves-catfish-in-new-york-to.html

Be alerted, be informed Bumble is backed by Badoo (80%, majority-owned by Badoo)
It is said Badoo is related to Russian mafia of white hat hackers in the spyware business.
Badoo is in big war with Tinder (Match Group)


When Match Group (fka IAC Personals) bought OKCupid (6+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission.
IAC / Match Group "acquired" HatchLabs to "develop" Tinder copycat of Badoo.
Then Badoo backed Bumble to fight back and destroy Tinder (last December 2014).

 

Articles about Badoo redesign.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/articles-about-badoo-redesign.html

BI article: The reclusive CEO of dating app Badoo on his app's redesign
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/bi-article-reclusive-ceo-of-dating-app.html


Badoo built its own big-data analytics platform
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/badoo-built-its-own-big-data-analytics.html

How To Find "The One" Online: Dating Advice From Bumble’s founder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/how-to-find-one-online-dating-advice.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"
    
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
   




  

Monday, October 16, 2017

A marriage can be stable, but miserable.



Gale-Shapley marriage problem does not take into account marital satisfaction.
https://www.ft.com/content/2a0c3f9a-b240-11e7-a398-73d59db9e399
Please remember: Gale-Shapley marriage problem is a HOAX. 
It does not take into account personality similarity between prospective mates.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/coffeemeetsbagel-dating-apps-and-gale.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/about-article-and-paper-evidence-that.html

FAILED and BIASED article "Mathematician reveals formula to find a perfect mate"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/failed-and-biased-article-mathematician.html


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Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.

At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."


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"
 
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 

  
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

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Friday, October 13, 2017

"Blockchain Matching Platforms: An Innovative Way to Connect with Peers"


https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/blockchain-matching-platforms-an-innovative-way-to-connect-with-peers/

Innovative? Where is exactly the innovation? Because
The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)

III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.

At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."


Matchpool Releases the Alpha Version of its Matchmaking Platform
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/07/matchpool-releases-alpha-version-of-its.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

If Alexa clearly shows EliteSingles USA churn rate 87% every 5 months!



http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com

See also:
EliteSingles and TinEye Reverse Image Search
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/elitesingles-and-tineye-reverse-image.html

and  
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ie
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com.au
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.nz
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.za

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com.mx
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.cl
And please see also: 
EliteSingles USA compared to tallest 2 active USA NBA players 221 cm (7 ft 3 in).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/elitesingles-usa-compared-to-tallest-2.html 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/if-elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-creates.html

7ft 7in British actor; the UK's tallest man, dies of heart failure, aged 36 / Please compare with EliteSingles UK and USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/7ft-7in-british-actor-uks-tallest-man.html

EliteSingles and TinEye Reverse Image Search





http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/proposed-combination-of-spark-and.html


EliteSingles / eDarling sites are only copycats of eHarmony.
A prospective client will not perceive eDarling / EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/about-article-elitesingles-full-of-fake.html

It is also said EliteSingles USA churn rate 87% every 5 months!

Last May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html


The Big Five normative personality test is obsolete, it has been proven as an incomplete and incorrect model of personality.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html
The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

about article and paper: Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society




https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society/

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-how-online-dating-has-changed-the-very-fabric-of-society

The Strength of Absent Ties: Social Integration via Online Dating
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10478

Please remember: Gale-Shapley marriage problem is a HOAX. It does not take into account personality similarity between prospective mates.
Also a marriage can be stable, but miserable.  Gale-Shapley marriage problem  does not take into account marital satisfaction.
Gale-Shapley marriage problem proposes stable marriage as an economic function (as a complex mental process).
They propose: a stable marriage can be predicted using mainly Gale_Shapley algorithm, General Equilibrium Theory and Non_cooperative Game Theory.
The Gale-Shapley algorithm is not good enough to solve the stable marriage problem because is based on initial preferences (attraction, fantasies, infatuation) and does not take into account temporal patterns of relationship variables.
CoffeeMeetsBagel: Dating Apps And The Gale-Shapley Algorithm ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/coffeemeetsbagel-dating-apps-and-gale.html

There's no evidence that (actual) matching algorithms work, Dr. Finkel says.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/theres-no-evidence-that-actual-matching.html

 

Lack Of Innovation and Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)

III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.


At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."


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"
 
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 

  
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