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Hollywood Needs Trusted Opinion to Promote Perpetual Reruns

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:57:59 +0000

Source:Mashable!
It’s summer time and that means it’s rerun season on television. Good thing we have a fresh set of reality television programs to tide us over, and on demand video content online. But even the online video market is hoping to start earing some cash on their older content. As larger networks […]

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GigPark: Recommendations From Your Friends

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:36:44 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Akimbo, the online video provider that never seemed to establish an identity, has closed its doors. The sudden move is surprising, given that the site raised $4 million in funding less than three months ago.
Akimbo launched in 2002 as a hardware-based VOD company. Using a hard-drive equipped settop box, users could download a […]Source:TechCrunch
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Yesterday at the Mesh conference in Toronto I met Noah Godfrey, one of the founders of GigPark. A social recommendation Website that launched last February, the site recently pushed out a major redesign. It’s like Yelp, but only with recommendations from people you know.
The point of GigPark is to collect and share recommendations […]

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Trusted Opinion Takes $1.3 Million Series A

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:30:07 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Recommendation based social network Trusted Opinion has raised $1.3 million Series A, although the investors are not being disclosed (we did ask).
Palo Alto based Trusted Opinion offers community based product ratings and recommendations in a social networking setting. The focus is on friends recommending things to friends, such as movies and DVD’s.
The company added support […]

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Trusted Opinion Adds Netflix Queuing

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:30:11 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
So today’s the big day for our second-annual TechCrunch meet-up at August Capital.
The Guest List is here - it is now full, and we wish we had more space to accommodate all the ticket requests. We’re planning additional events this year and hope you can join us next time. Due to the size of […]Source:Techcrunch
There’s a rather strange meme spreading at the moment that argues that the term “user” is dead.
The short argument is that because we are all users, the term is redundant. Josh Bernoff claims that because we don’t refer to people as users of dishwashers, we shouldn’t refer to people using computers as users either, but […]Source:Techcrunch
Social networking startup Trusted Opinion has added Netflix Queuing to their recommendations focused offering.
The feature allows Trusted Opinion members to read a review of a movie then instantly add it to their Netflix queue without leaving the page.
Although it sounds simple, Netflix does not offer a public API and hence the feature had to be […]

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