Product Reviews Pluribo: Instant Summaries of Amazon Reviews Pluribo is a Firefox plugin that displays short summaries of product reviews on Amazon.com. Pluribo scans through reviews customers on Amazon have left and automatically creates a one sentence summary that is somewhat akin to a Zagat review. While Zagat uses human editors to compile its reviews, though, Pluribo is fully automated. Right now… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few editors setting guidelines, the collaboratively filtered social web can have infinitely many editors and gets… Muhammad Saleem View comments
Advertising Google Rebrands Performics: Launches Affiliate Network Today, Google announced that it is rebranding DoubClick's Performics Affiliate as the Google Affiliate Network. Google acquired DoubleClick in March 2008 for $3.1 Billion. The Google Affiliate Network is not yet integrated into Google's AdSense and will continue to be hosted at ConnectCommerce.com for the time being. Companies currently… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Microsoft Releases Interop Docs: Is This What Data Portability Looks Like? Microsoft is announcing this morning the release of thousands of pages of technical documents concerning its most prized software, with the stated goals of facilitating interoperability and data portability. Office, Sharepoint and Exchange are all covered in the documentation, which should make it easier for 3rd parties to write applications… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Music Rhapsody Embraces DRM-Free MP3s: Another Nail in The Coffin of DRM Real Networks' Rhapsody music service, which had only been a subscription service so far, is joining into the every expanding fray of music services selling DRM-free MP3 files. Real has signed deals with Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, and EMI to sell songs at $.99 cents a song and $9.99 per album. By embracing DRM-free MP3s as its format of… Play Frederic Lardinois View comments