Google’s latest update to its Android Maps app and its web-based Places tool is a big step into the Yelp-ish ratings-and-reviews realm — just with a focus on algorithms and friends over strangers. Rate anything nearby and Google suggests other things.
Android: AppESP is an Android Market enhancing application that analyses your current applications, what’s popular in the Marketplace, and trending topics related to Android apps, to give you personalised app recommendations.
Sometimes the best movies aren’t the ones with enough money for a big promotional tour. Check out these popular movie recommendation services to find great films tailored to your tastes.
It’s disappointing to haul a book home from the library or shell out hard-earned cash at the bookstore only to settle in at home and find you don’t enjoy it one bit. Stock your reading list with these five great recommendation services.
If you’re looking to stock your reading list, YourNextRead is a simple and crowd-driven tool for finding out what book you should read next based on the ones you’ve recently finished.
If the view from your hotel window is an important part of your travel planning you’ll want to check out Rooms With Great Views, a website devoted to cataloguing the impressive views from hotel windows around the world.
If you’re proud of a product, you tend to tell all your friends about it. Rec.fm makes use of that impulse by donating money to your charity of choice every time your friends buy a product you recommend on Twitter or Facebook.
On some trips, free and reliable Wi-Fi at the hotel is crucial. The HotelChatter blog’s annual review of Wi-Fi at hotel chains dishes on who’s charging, which services you can depend on, and which chains want $US15 for checking your Gmail.
TheFilter has long been a popular iTunes plugin for helping sort through your iTunes music and automatically build playlists. You can still get TheFilter as an iTunes plugin but it’s also a web-based suggestion engine for media of all sorts.
