We develop a mobile recommendation system to answer these queries.
In October, it acquired Stamped, a mobile recommendation service.
This work discusses some of the most relevant systems on the field and presents PSiS Mobile, which is a mobile recommendation and planning application designed to support a tourist during his vacations.
Engestrom's background, prior to Groupon, was as the founder of Ditto, a mobile recommendation app that Groupon acquired last year.
Last May at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Gauri Manglik and her two cofounders launched SpotOn, a mobile recommendation app for bars and restaurants based on where your friends have checked in on Foursquare.
The problem with the reviews from those sites is that they are "stranger-based," said Fritz Lanman, chief executive of Livestar, a Seattle-based start-up that is introducing a new mobile recommendation service on Thursday.
In a ubiquitous mobile recommendation system, it is more desirable to proactively push just-in-time information to users than to require users to search for information.
Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by Microsoft alum Fritz Lanman, who is also a noted angel investor who has backed the likes of Square, Getaround, and, as it happens, Pinterest.
It's got reach with its WhereAds, and is working on relevancy with its mobile recommendations.
Context-awareness, a classic middleware topic, is revisited by Kam Fung Yeung, Yanyan Yang, and David Ndzi in "A proactive personalised mobile recommendation system using analytic hierarchy process and Bayesian network", this time in the frame of recommendation systems for mobile users.
