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16apps: iPhone App Recommendations Based on What You Tweet

Source: mashable

Aug 26, 2009

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: 16apps

Quick Pitch: Personalized iPhone apps recommendations based on social media (Twitter, FriendFeed, or Last.fm) searches.

Genius Idea: Think of this as personality profiling for the App Store. The iPhone App Store has more than 65,000 apps but let’s face it, iTunes is hardly the best app discovery mechanism. Enter your username for Twitter, FriendFeed or Last.fm (Facebook coming soon … maybe) and 16apps will scan your activity for relevant meta-data that it can then use to recommend iPhone applications. Your location, topics you commonly discuss and even your conversation style influence the evaluation.

Although certainly not all-encompassing, 16apps did a pretty good job figuring me out. I was going to take exception at some of the applications associated with “cusses occasionally” — but my reaction would

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