Blog 'til you drop.Los Angeles-based ThisNext has launched its online shopping recommendation service. ThisNext said that it is offering a "shopcasting and product discovery network" which allows bloggers and others to recommend products online. Users can create product "playlists" on the site, which they can then run on any biog. The bloggers can profit from the playlists by commissioning sales through an Amazon.com affiliate ID. ThisNext said that the service will use social filtering See collaborative filtering. , discovery algorithms, and the "wisdom of crowds" to help consumers find products. The firm is backed by Anthem anthem [ultimately from antiphon], short nonliturgical choral composition used in Protestant services, usually accompanied and having an English text. The term is used in a broader sense for "national anthems" and for the Latin motets still used occasionally in Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on IT investing with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding of many successful , and is headed by former Weblogsinc blogger Gordon Gould Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 — September 16, 2005) was an American physicist who is widely (but not universally) credited as the inventor of the laser. He is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the . |
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