TasteKid
TasteKid logo
Explore your taste
Type of site
Recommendation system;Social Network Service;Music;Film;Literature
Available inEnglish
OwnerTasteKid, Inc
Created byAndrei Oghină
URLhttp://www.tastekid.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2008
Current statusActive


TasteKid is a recommendation engine for music, movies, TV shows, books and authors.[1] The system's main interface, the TasteKid.com website, is a discovery oriented community.[2]

Description

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TasteKid uses a collaborative filtering approach to build a knowledge base and generate recommendations,[3] based on user preferences.[4] Besides the website, additional interfaces built using TasteKid's publicly available API on top of other platforms include an iPhone App[5] and a Google Gadget[6].

Features

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The feature available to all users is providing recommendations based on preferences. Preferences are formatted as a query string consisting in comma separated band names, movie, show or book titles and author names. Based on each query, a list of mixed type recommendations is generated.

For each recommended item, additional information is provided, such as trailers for movie recommendations.

On the website, registered users have access to additional features, like rating items and keeping a taste profile that contains their liked, disliked and saved items.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "TasteKid offers dead simple content recommendations via search". CNET. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  2. ^ "TasteKid CrunchBase Profile". CrunchBase. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  3. ^ "TasteKid CrunchBase Profile". CrunchBase. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  4. ^ "TasteKid Suggests Movies Based on What You Like". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  5. ^ "Tastekid for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store". Apple. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  6. ^ "Tastekid Google Gadget". iGoogle. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  7. ^ "TasteKid - Features". TasteKid. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
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