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Five Early Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches

Submitted by Michaelfidler

Oct 16, 2008

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International recommendation technology provider Strands has announced the five finalists in the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups. From music to video to pharmaceutical drug development recommendations, these plucky startups from all around the world will now present at the Association for Computing Machinery's Recommender Systems 2008 conference in Switzerland and one will be offered a $100k investment from Strands. Read the full article

Comments (3)

Michaelfidler,

Oct 16, 2008

@jasongoldberg Anything look disruptive to you? Any thoughts on Gravity?

Sarahcrisman,

Oct 17, 2008

@michaelfidler @jasongoldberg Gravity looks terribly intriguing. Thanks to TiVo & Amazon, recommendation software has reached mainstream familiarity. Now it's a race for who can master the algorithms with greatest accuracy. And Commendo... now there's some scary potentiality.