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What they need is a discovery tool as intuitive and useful as, say, Facebook's "friends"—something that offers trusted recommendations of what, from the user's known tastes, he or she will really enjoy.
After a year or so of stealth preparation, Livestar today launches an iOS app where you can view "trusted" recommendations.
We're hearing that the startup is trying to own the trusted recommendations space, and aiming squarely for the gap between Foursquare (mobile-enabled local) and Yelp (reviews).
People have always looked to their networks for trusted recommendations, but now this old-school practice has met the digital age as consumers look to their online social networks for product suggestions.
They also have unique referral codes which they can use to refer friends (parents or sitters) to the app," says co-founder Ari Last, explaining how Bubble is intending to tap into users' social graphs to power trusted recommendations.
If Facebook can marry the utility of business details found elsewhere with a unique layer of trusted recommendations from your friends, and let you interact with a business all in one place, it could start convincing people to open Facebook rather than Yelp or their search bar when they want to know where to go.
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She would not go into details of the precise methods, but said the main one was only to take new clients through trusted recommendation.
Frédéric Court, Partner at Advent Ventures, said: "QYPE replicates online what we do in everyday life when we need a trusted recommendation or opinion on local services such as a restaurant, a hotel or a plumber – we ask a friend".
And since people tend to trust recommendations from their friends, the companies that pop up in search results could find it more appealing to advertise to searchers.
A $240m£156m6m) industry as measured by Technorati, and with 92% of people trusting recommendations from people they know, it's no wonder that it is one of the fastest growing marketing medium in the past five years.
Innately, people trust recommendations from their friends more than they do from strangers, or algorithms.
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