Yahoo has acquired Jybe, the personalized recommendation app that aimed to help consumers get recomendations from friends around them, and then also move toward making purchases through the app. The acquisition… Read more »
New social tools and sites are facilitating a democratization of discovery, where one-to- many recommendations are no longer the exclusive domain of professional media and traditional tastemakers. Read more »
Even with all the expert and amateur reviews available on the web today, people still like to get recommendations the old-fashioned way: asking their friends for advice — aka, polling the… Read more »
As the battle heats up among social recommendation websites, British newcomer Top10.com thinks it can make an impact. But with Facebook cranking up to launch new features, do independent sites have… Read more »
A new site called Matcha.tv is trying to bring users the best movie and TV recommendations across a number of online video services, leveraging their interests and social graph to surface… Read more »
Redux has been working hard on finding new ways to get its users to watch videos online. But now the startup, which provides technology for online video discovery based on user… Read more »
Hunch.com offers a great visual snapshot of Mac users and their PC counterparts over on the site’s blog today. As you can see for yourself below, at least a good portion… Read more »
Besides Paul Allen’s patent suit against Facebook (and eight other big Internet players), there’s a class action brewing against the social networking powerhouse in California. It claims that Facebook is mis-using… Read more »
AT&T is developing a Yelp-like site to offer user reviews and recommendations. While it’s late to the social recommendation party, and as such faces a small army of competitors, AT&T has… Read more »
As millions of video choices come online, social recommendations will play an increasingly important role in what you watch. Rather than hunting and pecking for something good, we’ll tune into to… Read more »