I finished reading The Game last night. turns out Courtney Love is on Suicide Girls. So of course I have to go check it out, haven’t been there in years. When I signed up, I was asked if I wanted to join the newbies lounge. Why don’t more dating site offer this kind of a forum for new members?
I got a few choice quotes in this Austin Business Journal article about Gelato (warning: paywall).
Social games are crushing it, leading to $1 billion projected 2009 revenue for virtual goods. When I was in LA at iDate more than a few people said I should take a look at the social gaming market. The money they are earning is incredible and it’s mostly based on the silliest of time-wasting games.
TheFind launches “buying engine,†product search from 500,000 stores. When is someone going to nail the dating site aggregator search engine model and finally get it right? It’s taking far to long for this to become reality. Really surprising that someone (besides me) hasn’t figured it out yet.
A friend works for DataXu, thought I should mention them. They have the first real-time ad optimization platform for advertisers. Unlike any other online advertising service, the DataXu platform values, bid manages and buys ads on an impression-by-impression basis, across the ad exchanges operated by Google, Yahoo and others.
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Alexa says: By way of trend-watching co PSFK I came across this free Swedish dating site, Singalo http://www.singalo.se, where the dater’s profile is written by friends:
The free site is built on recommendations, where the dater’s profile is written and submitted by a friend, although nothing is published without the consent of the single in question. This concept takes away a lot of the stigma associated with online dating for the younger generation and allow friends to act as matchmakers on the internet.
This is a great idea, takes Match.com’s testimonials the next logical step.
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“TheFind launches ‘buying engine’ product search from 500,000 stores. When is someone going to nail the dating site aggregator search engine model and finally get it right? It’s taking far to long for this to become reality. Really surprising that someone (besides me) hasn’t figured it out yet.”
TheFind applies machine learning and semantic search to shopping, it is only a unidirectional recommendation engine.
You are probably suggesting a bidirectional (two-way) recommendation engine based on Collaborative Filtering (a.k.a Mutual filtering / Social filtering) for online dating purposes, but Collaborative Filtering had been proven only good for fun, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification and not for serious daters looking for a long term relationship with commitment.
If A_likes_B and B_likes_A, it does not imply B_likes_A with the same intensity A_likes_B.
or
If A_likes_B and B_likes_A, perhaps A_likes_B for short-term mating but B_likes_A for long-term mating.
Psychologists and other Academics had discovered that men and women have 2 “psychologies”: “the short-term mating strategy psychology” and “the long-term mating strategy psychology”, that is part of the new discovery uncovered by Eastwick and Finkel 2008; also Kurzban and Weeden, 2007; Todd, Penke, Fasolo, and Lenton, 2007 who found that people often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life.
Moreover persons under hormonal treatment (like women taking contraceptive pills) have short-term partner preferences variations.
Please check:
1) the paper “Recommender System for Online Dating Service” Brozovsky & Petricek (2007)
“… User interface may introduce bias in the sense that users instead of providing their personal preference try to guess the global preference. This reduces the usefulness of ratings provided…. ”
2) the interview, last April 11 2009, to Mr. Potter at OnlinePersonalsWatch, who had said:
“attractiveness appears to be the most important characteristic regardless of the information provided (at yesnomayB online dating site)”
3) the paper “Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?” Alvergne & Lummaa (2010).
“Female and male mate choice preferences in humans both vary according to the menstrual cycle. … . Because only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle (Gangestad, S.W. and Thornill, R. (2008) Human oestrus), we predict different effects of the pill on mating decisions depending on the context and the women’s opportunities.”
Long-term mating with commitment is all about personality similarity.
Kindest Regards.
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
“They have the first real-time ad optimization platform for advertisers.”
uh huh, just a bunch of hype they don’t actually allow impression level bidding. All they are doing is applying a discount to impressions deep in a users session.
Wow, so she is. I finished reading The Game a few weeks ago: what did you think of it?
it was good… not sure why you are asking that here though :)
interesting…
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Uhm, because this post discusses it?
haha, yes Dope, don’t quite know where my brain went on that one. I read something else then came to this page and commented….
Anyway, did you read the follow up that Neil wrote?
huh,
visited all the sites…but hardly found the materials like http://www.hookuponlineguide.com/
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I like the newbie lounge ideea for the dating sites! Could actually be a good thing to implement!
Which dating sites, I should Subscribe ?