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Dennis Crowley, co-founder of location based social network Foursquare, told attendees of the Picnic conference in Amsterdam today that the company has built a feature that recommends new locations users

Google's Places today expanded its offerings to include restaurant and place recommendations in cities neither you nor anyone you know has recommended before. Recommendations to date have been because "you

Today Google announced their acquisition of Zagat, the popular publisher of restaurant review guides. This comes just after last month's purchase of local deals provider, The Dealmap. These purchases, in

After selling VirtualTourist to Expedia, J.R. Johnson launched Lunch to encourage intelligent content and critical dialogue. Today, in expanding his mission for meaningful engagement, Johnson is launching Twitter Lists. This

In this latest instalment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at ATG - an e-commerce services vendor which, among other things, provides recommendations technology to retailers such as

Leading blog software provider WordPress.com will now offer multi-media and article link recommendations based on the words a user types into their blog composition window, in real time. The company

The Software Engineering Lab at Münster University of Applied Sciences in Germany has released an interesting Android app discovery tool as part of a research project on context-aware mobile systems.

Lunch.com, a year-old personal recommendation network that functions somewhat like Yelp, is implementing Facebook's newly launched Open Graph API (application programming interface) in an interesting way: It's doing Facebook "like"

Shazam, the music discovery iPhone application which gained widespread adoption thanks to its appearance in an iPhone TV commercial, is now getting a ton of new features thanks to the

Loomia is a content recommendations service, used on sites such as the Wall Street Journal and PC World. We've profiled Loomia's Facebook app before, which tracks what you and your