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Twitter #Music Is Great For Artists; Less So For Fans [Hands On Review]

Twitter's new music app is here. Artists should love it, but fans aren't going to find as much to like.

Top 5 Spotify Apps For Music Discovery

Spotify's app directory now features almost 60 add-on apps- what they're probably most useful fo is discovering music you might like but may never have heard otherwise.

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Location

Foursquare Takes on Yelp With Recommendations. Our Verdict: Good Start, Not There Yet

Today location check-in app Foursquare unveiled a new design for its iOS and Android mobile apps. It now focuses on recommending places for you to go, based on your current location. It's also more social. This is a sensible pivot, but Foursquare is not yet at the place it needs to be.

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Recommendation Engines

StumbleUpon Launches Entirely New Site, Logo

StumbleUpon is on a roll. As of August 2011, the U.S.'s biggest serendipity engine drove drive half of all social media traffic, surpassing Facebook, the social network that formerly held that bragging right. Today StumbleUpon announces a complete overhaul of its platform and logo, as it aims to make the site more visually oriented and simpler to…

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News

Fine-Tune Your Netflix Recommendations With Hunch

How can you improve the results of one of the Web's most effective and respected recommendation engines? By pairing it up with another one. That's exactly what the team at Hunch has done. The personalized recommendation service launched their browser-based Netflix Predictor today, which uses the company's "taste graph" to help determine what…

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mobile

Zite Releases Multiple Profile Option

Personalized iPad magazine discovery app Zite introduced a new update, humorously named Sybil, which allows users to switch between multiple profiles (or personalities, if you'd prefer). Aside from satisfying your alter-ego, it's now easier to share an iPad with other people, since they'll be able to create their very own profiles. This update…

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NYT

Goodreads Launches Book Recommendation Engine

Goodreads, a social network that lets readers rate and review books, has launched a recommendation engine designed to help users choose what to read next. The new feature comes six months after the startup acquired Discovereads, a book recommendation engine which is something CEO Otis Chandler cited as a sought-after feature among Goodreads…

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Breaking

Zite Acquired By CNN

Personalized iPad magazine application Zite has confirmed that it has been acquired by CNN. The sales price is rumored to be in the $20 to $25 million range. Zite will not be branded exclusively to CNN and will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the news network. It is an interesting play by CNN. Zite is a powerful news reading iPad app with a…

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Apple

Ready for a Smarter Smartphone? iOS 5 "Assistant" Technology Revealed

Apple's acquisition of mobile assistant Siri and its partnership with speech recognition leader Nuance Communications (the latter confirmed by references found in code), appear to be coming together in the launch of a new feature called "Assistant," to appear in the forthcoming update to iOS 5, Apple's mobile operating system. According…

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Facebook

Scribd's New Float Reader App Combines News, Social & "Read Later" on Mobile

Document hosting and sharing site Scribd is venturing into the mobile space in order to give its publishers an opportunity to attract more readers. With a new mobile reader application called Float, Scribd aggregates content from news sites, magazines, blogs, and Scribd.com as well as from your social networks like Facebook and Twitter. You can…

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Twitter #Music Is Great For Artists; Less So For Fans [Hands On Review]

Top 5 Spotify Apps For Music Discovery

Foursquare Takes on Yelp With Recommendations. Our Verdict: Good Start, Not There Yet

StumbleUpon Launches Entirely New Site, Logo

Fine-Tune Your Netflix Recommendations With Hunch

Zite Releases Multiple Profile Option

Goodreads Launches Book Recommendation Engine

Zite Acquired By CNN

Ready for a Smarter Smartphone? iOS 5 "Assistant" Technology Revealed

Scribd's New Float Reader App Combines News, Social & "Read Later" on Mobile