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• SeeqPod Scouring The Web For Music

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Beta, Internet, Music, Music Search, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Search, Seeqpod, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Iphone

  sure how SeeqPod is creating recommendations but it reminds me of iTunes "Just for You" music recommendations. Check out the screen-shot below of the discover search results. Additionally, SeeqPod offers API's for developers to tap into the Recommendation and Discovery Services. SeeqPod is similar to JiwaMusic but SeeqPod offers a

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• My iTunes Data Widgets Now Sharable

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:56 pm

  Tags: Apple, Feeds, Jiwamusic, Last Fm, Media 2 0, Music, Music Search, Mystrands, One Llama, Pandora, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Riffs, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Syndication, Technologies, Techno

  your purchase history into a recommendation engine."There are a number of other applications like MyStrands, MOG, Last.fm, SeeqPod, Pandora, JiwaMusic, midomi, Riffs and One Llama which offer music recommendations algorithmically or community contributed. These applications can now benefit by leveraging the personal data of iTunes, which is one

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• Engagd Attention Platform Launches

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Api, Apml, Attention, Feeds, Mashup, Personalization, Personalized, Product Development, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Resource, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Development, Web Metrics, Web Tech, Att

  Personal Relevancy Engine (itemrank.engagd.com) - Give ItemRank your APML file and a set of content, and it will return that content filtered and ranked by Personal Relevancy. Engagd is the first free, open standard Attention platform of its kind. It will be interesting to see how it is leveraged in todays Attention Economy.

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• BuzzFeed: Discover The Web's Buzz

  Published: August 18, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Attention, Blogosphere, Blogs, Buzzfeed, Community, Content, Design, Digg, Media 2 0, New York, News, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Sphere, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weblogs

  What's buzzing on the web? Wouldn't it be nice to know? Using a combination of techniques which include sophisticated algorithms, click tracking and human editors BuzzFeed, a NY-based startup, discovers and distributes what is buzzing on the Web. At first glance, BuzzFeed's simple, elegant blog-like design which was influenced by Jason

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• Skype Outage, Google Health Coming, Social Money Management, Social Networks In A Box, New AOL Mobile & TECH cocktail Boston Sold Out

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:30 pm

  Tags: Aol, Blogrovr, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Business, Community, Google, Mapquest, Mobile, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Co

  Photo of the Week: This photo titled WEB 2 OH is an artistic take on a license plate I spotted earlier this week. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.19.2007 Skype Suffers Major Outage Skype goes black for a bit and here some people that benefited from it. First Google Health Is Coming Google Health, codename Weaver , is Google's

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• Grayboxx Local Search Powered By Neighbor Recommendations

  Published: September 5, 2007, 1:33 am

  Tags: Business, Community, Grayboxx, Local, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Search, Shopping, Small Business, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  its local search results on recommendations of neighbors coupled with some snazzy algorithms to assess user behavior.Grayboxx plans to open up other cities as it moves along on its tour. However, it appears you can check it out by navigating through the directory link in the footer. I was able to capture this screen-shot of a pizza search in

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• Pentagon Hacked, iPhone Announcements, Facebook People Search, 10 Web Trends, Delicious Preview, MyStrands Music Video & Netscape Digg Clone Gone

  Published: September 9, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Aol, Business, Digg, Facebook, Feed Reader, Gleamd, Google, Government, Internet, Mystrands, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Spock, Technologies, Technology, Video

  provider of a music recommendation service, has launched a slick new website at MyStrands.tv for finding music videos hosted on YouTube. MyStrands leverages collaborative filtering and some pretty sophisticated algorithms to offer music recommendations, so it only makes sense that they put them to use on other areas like videos.

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• Ruckus Aims Free Music At College Kids

  Published: September 12, 2007, 12:54 pm

  Tags: Business, Community, Education, Entertainment, Fun, Games, Goombah, Music, Music Search, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Ruckus, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Washington Dc, Web Tech, College, Content, Gaming

  Goombah to offer a music recommendation engine. Leveraging Goombah, the new service will scan a user's music library and point them to other tracks in Ruckus. The service will offers some social features by highlighting other users with similar music preferences and allowing them to connect and share new music. If you are a college student

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• Ruckus Aims Free Music At College Kids

  Published: September 12, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Business, Community, Education, Entertainment, Fun, Games, Goombah, Music, Music Search, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Ruckus, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Washington Dc, Web Tech, College, Content, Gaming

  Goombah to offer a music recommendation engine. Leveraging Goombah, the new service will scan a user's music library and point them to other tracks in Ruckus. The service will offers some social features by highlighting other users with similar music preferences and allowing them to connect and share new music. If you are a college student

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• Pentagon Hacked, iPhone Announcements, Facebook People Search, 10 Web Trends, Delicious Preview, MyStrands Music Video & Netscape Digg Clone Gone

  Published: September 9, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Aol, Business, Digg, Facebook, Feed Reader, Gleamd, Google, Government, Internet, Mystrands, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Spock, Technologies, Technology, Video

  provider of a music recommendation service, has launched a slick new website at MyStrands.tv for finding music videos hosted on YouTube. MyStrands leverages collaborative filtering and some pretty sophisticated algorithms to offer music recommendations, so it only makes sense that they put them to use on other areas like videos. Netscape

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• Yahoo Buys Zimbra, Google vs. Facebook, More Social Digg, Google Sharing Stuff, Zink and Zync, TechCrunch40 & Me Meme

  Published: September 23, 2007, 12:59 am

  Tags: Blogosphere, Business, Community, Digg, Google, Internet, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Techcrunch40, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weekly Tidbits, Yahoo, Techcrunch20

  operates a local event recommendation engine based around the city of Boston. The site currently lists 30,000 events across 20,000 venues. And even though it only has 355 users, they have amassed almost 9500 ratings. It's a Me, Me, Me, Meme WorldBrian Caldwell explains the me me meme world. Cool tech geeks start something online. We

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• YourTrumanShow Video Widget Launches

  Published: September 24, 2007, 10:49 am

  Tags: Aggregator, Beta, Community, Facebook, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Widgets, Yourtrumanshow

  YourTrumanShow, the personal video diaries startup, has just launched, VideoMap, video discovery widget at the DEMO Conference in San Diego, California. Catering to artists and online personalities, YourTrumanShow, looks to cultivate discovery within its network by exposing its interesting video linking feature to other social network and the Web

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• FeedHub Personalized Feed Creator

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Beta, Feedhub, Feeds, Media 2 0, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Syndication, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  its personalized feed and recommendation product at the 2007 DEMOfall Conference. I was part of the FeedHub private beta program. FeedHub creates a personalized RSS feed from you reading list and intelligently displays the most relevant post. With FeedHub, simply import your feed reading list (RSS feeds in an OPML format) and FeedHub

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• Try This: Q & A-Style Recommendations

  Published: September 25, 2007, 5:35 pm

  Tags: Community, Digg, Media 2 0, Media Aggregator, Q Amp, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Trythis, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  Looking for a recommendation? Try This leverages user contributed questions and answers to offer recommendations. Try This reminds me of a cross between Digg and Yahoo Answers as it offers community recommendations by leveraging a question and answer format. With Try This users can ask a question like, "Where can I get good sushi in

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• BAAGZ Startpage Built On Social Search

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:01 am

  Tags: Baagz, Bookmarks, Community, Demofall, Homepage, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Search, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startpage, Startup, Technologie

  that users can find social recommendations via "baagz" created by other users. How doest BAAGZ work? According to the BAAGZ web site: "BAAGZ uses its semantic description of every Web site stored in a baag to determine what a given baag is about whether or not a given Web site is specifically tagged by baagerz. The system

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