The Next Big Website.

Information Gathering was a class I took at university. As a process, this a very important part for researching and creating web applications. However what are the effects of continuous information gathering in one area? 10 years ago, I thought that the refining process of information would happen quite quickly, because information from websites that [...]

Web Trends – Recommendation Tools.

There seems to be a few sites out there using the concept of ‘recommendations by other users’. Here’s one from New York called Hunch. Hunch says it gives you customized recommendations and gets smarter the more you use it. One of the current most popular questions was ‘Should I get a TiVo Premiere?’ Funny they [...]

Aardvark

Aardvark was founded in late 2007 by Max Ventilla, Damon Horowitz, Nathan Stoll, and Rob Spiro. Aardvark was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information. In 2008 the Aardvark team built out the core Aardvark product, while conducting an extensiveuser-researchcampaign to refine the [...]