And UsingMiles has another factor in its favor a proprietary recommendation technology.
Single-Stock Scores Recommendations. StarMines proprietary recommendation metric, the Single-Stock Recommendation Score, captures the performance of an analyst on a single stock.
Using its own proprietary recommendation technology, the service can normalize the user reviews, discounting things like astroturfing, and older, out-of-date reviews.
Clicker's proprietary recommendation engine, Clicker Predict, and its social integration with Facebook, bring its 2.5 million monthly users an instantly personalized guide to what's worth watching online.
What's interesting about Uvinum, however, and ought to make it attractive both to wine lovers and to online wine shops and wine producers is their proprietary recommendation technology.
A proprietary recommendation engine suggests what upcoming local concerts users would enjoy attending by crossing stylistic relationship data, such as performing artists and bands, with geo and venue data.
The service, operated by Times Internet, allows listeners to browse through thousands of playlists, save their favorites, and launch radio stations from individual songs to discover similar tunes, based on its proprietary recommendation algorithm.
Here is how it works: users seed the proprietary recommendation algorithm with a few 'likes,' in order to start creating their personalized profile (users can now also likes every posting on the service as well).
You can also look at other users' playlists and discover songs through the company's proprietary recommendation engine or nuTsie's editorial playlists (i.e. Top 100 Reggae Songs, Top 100 90's Songs).
There are quite a few recommendation engines out there already (i.e. Chomp or Frenzapp), but AppGrooves goes in a different direction: the idea is to combine a proprietary recommendation algorithm with a "Hot or not -feature anot -featureelement to discover unknown cool iOS ands.
