10 Recommended Recommendation Engines

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10 Recommended Recommendation Engines

Alex Iskold just posted Rethinking Recommendation Engines , a product type that we here at ReadWriteWeb have explored a lot over the past year or so. In this follow-up post, we present 10 recommendation engines that we like. And we don't include the obvious ones, such as Amazon, Netflix, last.fm, Pandora. So it's not a 'top 10', don't panic. We invite you to add your favorites in the comments.

Recommendation engines were included in our toolkit for 2008: What's Next on the Web . Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote that "the future is likely to be even more swamped in data, social and content options than the web is today. From Google Reader's recent incorporation of both feed recommendations and shared items in Reader from your contacts in GMail to the ascendancy of services like Last.fm, Pandora and StumbleUpon - recommendation is beginning to make a big splash already."

Without further ado, here are our 10 picks, compiled from previous ReadWriteWeb posts:

MyStrands

How do you navigate a nearly infinite world of digital data to find the best content for your tastes and needs? Our collective answer to this question is in its infancy, but Oregon based recommendation service MyStrands has raised a whopping $55 million to build on the existing science of recommendation. Definitely the dark horse of the recommendation engines - one to watch.

MatchMine

MatchMine , a Massachusetts company building a cross-platform media recommendation engine, received a $10 million investment from The Kraft Group. The company released an early product called MyMovieMatch in July. See RIA expert Ryan Stewart's review of the original product for background from this summer.

Zync

Zync , a Massachusetts-based startup, operates a local event recommendation engine based around the ...

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