Recommendation Engines If You Like Moustaches on Men - You'll Love These Restaurants Cross reference a person's Twitter friendships with their Foursquare favorites with their Hunch.com articulated "taste graph" and what do you get? Interesting personalized restaurant recommendations, for one thing. Taste-gathering startup Hunch is experimenting with a recommendation service that cross references social graph connections on… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Internet of Things What The Phone in Your Pocket Will Do For You Someday Technologist Tim O'Reilly likes to say that the software of the future will be cloud-delivered data, augmenting mobile reality, based on real-world sensor feedback, in real time. Peter Batty (left), VP of geospatial technology at Ubisense, showed what some of those technologies may look like in a presentation earlier this month titled Location… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Publishing Services Digg's New Social Following and Publishing Tools [VIDEO] In an interesting nugget of Friday afternoon news, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has posted an article featuring a preview of the upcoming fourth version of the social news site Digg. Founder Kevin Rose has published a glorious 1080p video to YouTube aimed at explaining the new features to publishers. Among the most interesting features is the… Chris Cameron View comments
mobile iPhone Dropped in Toilet? There's an App for That Starting June 6th, iPhone purchasers will be able to insure their precious devices through AT&T for just $13.99 a month, according to documents leaked to Boy Genius Report today. The insurance, which is purchased through the AppStore, intends to counter-act the pain and suffering caused by those "whoopsie", butterfingers-induced moments that send… Mobile Chris Cameron View comments
Internet of Things Hotels Test Smartphones as Room Keys Starting in June, the Intercontinental Hotel Group is testing out the use of smartphones as room keys. Using an app from OpenWays, patrons at the Holiday Inn Chicago O' Hare Rosemont or the Holiday Inn Express Houston Downtown Convention Center download a distinct audio code into their iPhone, Blackberry or Android. Passing the phone by the door… Mobile Curt Hopkins View comments