Bumble, a swipe-gesture dating app will launch a function to help their users develop their business and employment relationships.
Bumble was created back in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe. It is a dating app where women are expected to make the first move, as men cannot be the first to send a message. The new feature is known as BumbleBizz, and according to Wolfe, it was “always part of the overall vision.”
“To enable people to connect at the key engagement points in life. For love, for friendship and now for network,” Wolfe added.
Bumble is also known to take into account an user’s musical taste, as it has partnered with Spotify, which then scans matching preferred genres of music.
A new contender in social media
Much like Bumble, BumbleBizz will use the familiar swiping gesture to pass through the professional profiles of people around the user. These profiles will be different from their dating profiles and they will display education, employment, current projects, and any information that may be considered useful for networking.
Bumble has almost 7 million users, and it has not yet monetized its services. Wolfe estimates that the company could be worth over $500 million, which is why she has chosen to issue the announcement of BumbleBizz last Thursday. She aims to develop Bumble to becoming the equivalent of Facebook for getting acquainted with people one yet does not know.
BumbleBizz is reportedly a solution for gathering employees, such as in a large event, where managers may need a large number of reliable staff for different projects. Wolfe says that sometimes, employers do not have time to go on and about looking for workers and to send and reply online messages. She suggests that BumbleBizz will become an efficient and rapid solution for finding people with similar business interests, as Wolfe herself has been able to meet people through Bumble, specifically executives from Facebook.
The next step in networking is here
Wolfe stressed that the phenomenon is regarded as hyper-locality and that people already can see their new relationships be nourished through social media. She says that work and professional activity is just the next stage of the race, but that it is important to keep the personal profile intact.
“We want this to be less about your resume and more about who you are,” she said to TIME.
One of the most important factors regarding BumbleBizz is that it can pose a significant threat to LinkedIn, a networking service that has failed to find new ground as Microsoft acquired it for an estimated $26.2 billion. Bumble also has some history with Tinder, as Wolfe managed to have herself listed as a co-founder after she filed and won a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company and her ex-boyfriend.
BumbleBizz may become the next step in networking, as it proves to be an exceptional idea when it comes to finding capable and reliable people. It would be ideal if there were some verification system of a person’s professional profile, such as user reviews or points, as there is always the possibility of individuals with the wrong intentions trying to take advantage of honest, hard-working people.
BumbleBizz is set to be launched in early fall 2016.
Source: TIME
Bumble like Tinder is social dating, and social dating is vaporware.
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY.
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 correlation with 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 “a 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.