Comments on: Trusted Opinion provides friends’ recommendations — but watch for spam http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:43:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Netflix Queue http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-688942 Netflix Queue Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:44:06 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/#comment-688942 Good Day, I am glad I pressed harder enough until I found netflix queue, because this post on Trusted Opinion provides friends’ recommendations — but watch for spam was extremely helpful. Just last Friday I was pondering on this quite a bit. Good Day, I am glad I pressed harder enough until I found netflix queue, because this post on Trusted Opinion provides friends’ recommendations — but watch for spam was extremely helpful. Just last Friday I was pondering on this quite a bit.

]]> By: VentureBeat » TrustedOpinion snares investors’ trust, $1.3 million http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-593448 VentureBeat » TrustedOpinion snares investors’ trust, $1.3 million Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:55:14 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/#comment-593448 [...] We wrote about the service, which works by weighting reviews from within your social circle higher than reviews from strangers, at the end of July. We were dubious then and remain dubious now: Movie reviews are dominated by Amazon, and Flixster, and nightclub and restaurant reviews are handled by Zagat, Yelp and Citysearch. Combining all three and relying on a social network backbone to make adjustments to the review score seems a shaky way to add value, and it’s hard to see a viable competitive advantage. Tagged N/A VentureBeat Community [...] [...] We wrote about the service, which works by weighting reviews from within your social circle higher than reviews from strangers, at the end of July. We were dubious then and remain dubious now: Movie reviews are dominated by Amazon, and Flixster, and nightclub and restaurant reviews are handled by Zagat, Yelp and Citysearch. Combining all three and relying on a social network backbone to make adjustments to the review score seems a shaky way to add value, and it’s hard to see a viable competitive advantage. Tagged N/A VentureBeat Community [...]

]]> By: VentureBeat » TrustedOpinion snares investors’ trust, $1.3 million http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-593462 VentureBeat » TrustedOpinion snares investors’ trust, $1.3 million Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:55:14 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/#comment-593462 [...] We wrote about the service, which works by weighting reviews from within your social circle higher than reviews from strangers, at the end of July. We were dubious then and remain dubious now: Movie reviews are dominated by Amazon, and Flixster, and nightclub and restaurant reviews are handled by Zagat, Yelp and Citysearch. Combining all three and relying on a social network backbone to make adjustments to the review score seems a shaky way to add value, and it’s hard to see a viable competitive advantage. Tagged N/A VentureBeat Community [...] [...] We wrote about the service, which works by weighting reviews from within your social circle higher than reviews from strangers, at the end of July. We were dubious then and remain dubious now: Movie reviews are dominated by Amazon, and Flixster, and nightclub and restaurant reviews are handled by Zagat, Yelp and Citysearch. Combining all three and relying on a social network backbone to make adjustments to the review score seems a shaky way to add value, and it’s hard to see a viable competitive advantage. Tagged N/A VentureBeat Community [...]

]]> By: Nick http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-386567 Nick Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:26:38 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/#comment-386567 Don't think the social network is going to take off. Just not going to get enough users. Might work better as a Facebook App. Don’t think the social network is going to take off. Just not going to get enough users. Might work better as a Facebook App.

]]> By: Bob Warfield http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-385182 Bob Warfield Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:50:01 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/27/trusted-opinion-to-get-friends-recommendations-but-watch-for-spam/#comment-385182 I think Trusted Opinions link back to Netflix is a wonderful example of how businesses should be embracing Web 2.0. In this case, Web 2.0 embraced the business, but you could imagine it could have gone the other way and been even more interesting. I've written more about this on my blog at: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/how-should-businesses-embrace-the-web-20/ I think Trusted Opinions link back to Netflix is a wonderful example of how businesses should be embracing Web 2.0. In this case, Web 2.0 embraced the business, but you could imagine it could have gone the other way and been even more interesting.

I’ve written more about this on my blog at:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/how-should-businesses-embrace-the-web-20/

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