GoodRec: A Twitter-Like Recommendation Voting Site
Sep 19, 2008 Cool Sites
GoodRec is a place where you can get and make short online recommendations on restaurants, bars, wine, movies, books and products. The recommendations posted in GoodRec are short and often given only in three sentences or below. The community is allowed to vote on the recommendations submitted in GoodRec.... Continue Reading
Tags: goodrec, recommendation, social netoworking, twitter, voting
StumbleAudio: Stumbleupon for Music
Jul 26, 2008 Cool Sites
StumbleAudio is the Stumbleupon for music lovers with over 2 million available tracks for you to stumble. Judging from the name of the site, the idea was generally taken from Stumbleupon. StumbleAudio is like the “I’m feeling lucky” of music search sites.... Continue Reading
Tags: Music, music discovery, recommendation, songs, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, tracks
Emmy the TasteKid: The Recommendation Robot
Jul 3, 2008 Cool Sites
Meet Emmy, the taste kid robot. Tastekid provides recommendations based on stuff that interests you. It’s a great site for discovering other interesting things that you might like. There are lots of recommendation sites out there but I find this one very unique. Maybe it’s because of Emmy, the character (mascot) of the site. It kind of feels like getting recommendations from someone other than an algorithm, even if it is actually a robot.... Continue Reading
