Skycandy is a Skype based dating service. Is this going to kill speeddate.com?
Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of Location-Based Services. I hope dating sites take advantage of this, great way to promote date-friends businesses and locations.
Dating Ad Nework Interview with World Dating Partners.
Fubar is a Myspace-like online bar/hangout.
Vindicia Bags Another $7.5 Million In Funding. Vindicia is a subscription billing platform featuring an integrated fraud/chargeback management system. The fourth round of funding brings the total amount of financing invested in the company to $21 million. I’ve been talking with Steve Klebe lately, very interesting service they offer. Here’s Steve’s blog. Here’s a site I just came across, Payments News.
New York Times has several dating-related articles. They are taking a page from the Vows section and writing stories about how people meet online. His 50 First Dates, Blinded by Science in the Online Dating Game. Looks like academia is finally starting to take dating sites to task for their compatibility matching systems.
Pattie Maes is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab. She is responsible for Firefly and many other preference-based search systems. In a recent Mass Hight Tech she states: We try to empower people to express themselves better, to learn more efficiently and to related to other better. This applies to online dating sites as well. So does this – UX Is The Beating Heart Of Tech.
Study finds online daters choose wrong people due to ‘cognitive overload’.
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Hi all,
Dave wrote:
“Blinded by Science in the Online Dating Game. Looks like academia is finally starting to take dating sites to task for their compatibility matching systems.”
I wanted to clarify that academia started to take dating sites to task a LONG time ago. In fact, my team was the first to publish a peer-reviewed journal article on the subject. The recent review by Dr. Lohr drew heavily from that article, but his was published in a popular magazine (not peer reviewed) called “Skeptic.”
In any event, interested readers are referred to the following article to see the early work on this topic:
Houran, J., Lange, R., Rentfrow, P. J., & Bruckner, K. H. (2004). Do online matchmaking tests work? An assessment of preliminary evidence for a publicized ‘predictive model of marital success.’ North American Journal of Psychology, 6, 507-526.
Furthermore, researchers have long been criticizing unsubstantiated compatibility assessments in academic forums.
Thanks,
James Houran, Ph.D.
http://www.OnlineDatingMagazine.com
I should have said that popular interest in gaging effectiveness of online dating sites is increasing. Singles are tired of being taken for a ride and are starting to demand accountability. It’s time for the researchers to dialog with the test creators and the brands that pay their bills and take personality testing and matching to a new, more transparent, level.
Right now it’s still all about marketing. Eharmony could remove their test and they would proabably still make similar amounts of revenue.