Everyday decisions, from which products to buy, movies to watch and restaurants to try, are more and more being put in the hands of a new source: recommendation systems.
Boardlist works by sourcing recommendations from its members, who are both male and female, to provide a platform for tech companies to discover and connect with board-ready women.
More Ways to Discover Music: Channels and Picks The new Zune software update taps expert sources, recommendations from the Zune service and online music community, and the user's own play data to create a dynamic, digital music experience where discovering music is easy and seamless.
Laughlin and Smith say that online forums like TripAdvisor have become the defacto source for recommendations but these site aren't able to give you recommendations from people you trust.
A good source of recommendations for interesting theatre comment from across the pond, as well as views of his own.
Being Dutch, Mara Gonzalez-Martinez speaks perfect English, and having lived in Trinidad for many years is a good source of recommendations.
Goodreads, which is based on networks of friends sharing reviews, was building a reputation as a reliably independent source of recommendations.
Since most prestigious high schools frown on tutoring, as a rebuke to their teachers and an imposition on overscheduled children, they are not usually a source of recommendations for parents.
Spotify hopes that Browse will add a "human touch" to the service with chief product officer Gustav Söderström saying: "We don't rely on one source for recommendations in real life - and music discovery can't be one dimensional".
