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Alternative.to aims to find you best alternatives for almost everything

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 25, 2011
Alternative.to

Alternative.to

Alternative.to is an online resource site that is there to help people. It can help you in finding you alternate to a word or phrase, no matter what it is. Not interesting? Well, find it out for yourself.

The tool offers you alternate to anything. Search for iPhone 4 and it would give the best alternates for iPhone like Galaxy Tablet and Dell Streak 5. Alternative.to can offer you best travel plans, best places to visit, best places to eat, best shopping sites, best zoos and what not!

The tool offers suggestion using complex algorithms in analyzing a person‘s need and requirement. Also, the tool builds upon suggestions of alternates proposed by common people. Then there are experts that analyze the suggestions placed forward by the people. The tool adapts using machine learning algorithms to place best choice in front of a person, who is willing to take advice. The search also optimizes itself along the lines of number of people suggesting that thing.

The tool is basically a suggestion toolbox that offers you good advice and helps you in making better decisions for shoes, clothing, school, bags, books etc.

The best part is that Alternative.to is free to use in any way you like. This is what you call free advice. No registration and no money used and you are getting free advice. Vow! People also add content to the search engine freely and you are not charged for anything that the site offers. For personalized search and getting narrow search results because of constraints posed by the person taking advice, one has to register. So one can add content as well as get personal results using Alternative.to by joining freely. The site also holds frequent prize competition for content providers. So get ready for giving useful suggestions to people.

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Top10 raises $3.5 million in a Series A financing by Accel Partners, Idealab and Others

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 21, 2011
Top10

Top10.com

Top10, a London-based company, helps people share top 10 of almost everything. Top 10 actresses, top 10 clubbing holidays, top 10 zombie games, top 10 things to do in New York and so on. You can add an item that interests you, invite friends from social networking sites, add friends and share your Top 10 activities on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

The company, Top10 Group Inc. was founded in 2011 and has raised $3.5 million in a Series A financing by Accel Partners, Founder Collective, Idealab, Forward Venture Partners and Shakil Khan.

Top10 is a recommendation platform that lets people share their experiences and recommend products, places and services to others. The primary aim of Top 10 is to help people make informed choices about what they buy and from where.

A recommendation platform in an age when most people are hooked on to the Internet for practical advice on products and services is a good idea. No wonder they could raise millions from venture capitalists for Top10.

The company talks about Top10 as the “ultimate platform to discover, create and share recommendations about the stuff you love”. Indeed, that is exactly what you will see on their website. Opinions about anything and everything can be found on Top10, which is aggregated under topics for easy access. A user can follow Top10 on Facebook and Twitter.

As the company CEO, Tom Leathes, summaries that they are building a platform for buying products based on people’s reviews. With more and more people turning to the Internet to check the reviews of a product before buying, Top10 seems to have placed themselves in the right place.

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LoveThis – A Platform To Recommend Anything And Share With Friends

1 Comment Posted by on March 20, 2011

lovethis-logoDo you believe that your friends are your the best adviser for you? Whenever you want to buy a new gadget or want to go for a dinner to a new restaurant or want to spent your recess in abroad by asking your friends you can find a finest gadget or first-class dinner or awesome place. But, is it possible always asking them? No, LoveThis is a fantastic platform to get or give recommendation for friends as well as to get recommendation from experts.

In LoveThis, there are various categories for giving a recommendation or finding a recommendation. The idea behind the LoveThis is straightforward. Suppose that you went to an awesome restaurant and you loved their foods and hospitality. Now you can give a recommendation for the restaurant that your friends also can enjoy their dishes and nice environment. The process is very easy. First you have to register in LoveThis, you can register with your email or you can logon via Facebook or Twitter account. This option allows you to get rid of boring registration process and in addition, if you logon via facebook you can invite your Facebook friends to join here so that they can share their view and thought about a particular thing by giving or getting recommendation from friends.

When you recommend for a particular thing you can easily select category from the categories list and then write a sentence why you are recommending this restaurants or gadget or hotel. The most awesome feature is that you can add map of that place to help your friends finding that place quickly. It also allows you to search your friends in LoveThis to see if they already made an account. Another thing is that you can also comment on friend’s recommendations and discuss or ask question about the recommendation.

LoveThis is a wonderful platform that emphases friends recommendations greatly as well as experts recommendations. But friends’ recommendations may not always be correct. Despite of this drawback, there are enough reason to LoveThis, specially when you need to make a choice out of many options about restaurants, hotels, places, products or services. You also have a chance to justify or compare  friend’s recommendations with expert recommendations. So you can join LoveThis without any confusion and make your life full of love and fun.

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Inveni – Discover New Movies And TV Shows Based On Your Taste

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 30, 2011

Inveni logoInveni is a new discovery website for movies and TV shows. Inveni will let you create your universal taste profile based on your recommendations. Inveni‘s intelligent recommendation engine counts user ratings and recommendations as well as friends recommendations and behavior.

The process is really simple and smooth, by following few steps you can jump into your taste profile. During the sign up process, Inveni will ask you to import your existing ratings from your Netflix, Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster, IMDB, Fandago, Best Buy, Criticker and Movie Web accounts. This helps Inveni‘s recommendation engine to refine and personalize your taste profile. You can also save your preferred genres to fine tune your tastes.

Each title has it’s own page, where user can comment, rate or recommend the movie also vote for similar titles. If the title is available on Netflix, a watch button will let you watch the title on Netflix. It will also let you buy the title from Amazon or rent it from Netflix.

Invenii provides a Firefox plug-in to the user which keeps them connected and updated with Inveni their profile and friends. It is also developing a native iPhone/iPad application which is currently in alpha testing stage.

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