Posts Tagged ‘Social Recommendation’

As more and more content is becoming available on the web, the way in which we search for and discover new content is evolving. Over the years content discovery has developed into it’s own life force, starting out with online magazines and moving into simple search engines and web portals such as AOL and Yahoo!, evolving into super search engines like Google and finally social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. What is the next step in the evolution of content discovery? Read our predictions below.
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Of course I wouldn’t expect that all of you knew social recommendation site GetGlue because to be honest I discovered the site pretty recently. Anyway, to give you a brief background of GetGlue, the site is described as an innovative social recommendation network for movies, books, and music – three things which a normal human being like you and me definitely digs and most often than not get glued on. Read more

If you spend time reading websites and blogs online, take note of ShareThis’ new Stream service, which aggregates not only what content friends are sharing on hundreds of thousands of sites, but also any conversations about the content.

You might already be familiar with ShareThis’ discreet little green button on multiple sites, which upon clicking displays a list of social sharing (bookmarking, voting, etc.) sites where you can post a link to the page you’re browsing. ShareThis claims over 400 million users across 130,000 websites using this social sharing wdiget. Now, they’re leveraging this base to show the top shared content plus “social comments from friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social services.”
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