Archive for the ‘MyFriendSuggests’ Category
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
We are proud to announce our first version of MyFriendSuggests for Facebook.
The facebook application allows you to link your MyFriendSuggests account to your facebook account. Here are a few of the features that the application offers:
Easy Access to your MFS points as well as notifications for new messages and friend ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
How to get the most out of MyFriendSuggests.com?
If you’ve found yourself to this page you’ve probably tried our site MyFriendSuggests.com, if not go try it now and come back here after. As a new site we are encourage you to submit feedback about what you like, what you don’t like ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
We're proud to announce the first version of our mobile site, http://mobile.myfriendsuggests.com.
Imagine your in the middle of New York City and you want to find a bar close by that matches your personal tastes; with Mobile.MyFriendSuggests.com that's no problem.
As part of our first release users will be able to search ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
I am in the processing of promoting our new webiste, MyFriendSuggests.com. I've been keeping track of different resources I've used to help promote the site and figured it was worth sharing in hopes that others would share back any sites I missed. I'm only including sitest that are 1) Free, ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
We're proud to announce the release of the new and improved MyFriendSuggest.com. We've totally overhauled the look and feel of the site making it more pleasant to view and easier to use. We've added some great new functionality as well such as tagging, "tell a friend", the ability to quickly ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
We are please to announce the official launching of MyFriendSuggests.com a social networking site that provides you personalized suggestions for restaurants, bars, clubs, doctors, grocery stores and just about anything else you can think of. Unlike other sites where you may find yourself digging through 100's of reviews from people who ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Taste is a great framework for collaborative filtering. We are going to be launching a new recommendation algorithm on our site (MyFriendSuggests.com) in the coming weeks (Stay Tuned!) based on the Taste framework. Taste provides a User-based and Item-based recommender. User based recommenders find users that have similiar tastes to ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
As we've seen in my posts for scraping AOL, GMail and Yahoo, each site has its own "tricks" that make it challenging to scrape contact information from. The final site in this series of posts is for Hotmail. Hotmail is one of the trickier ones. As I did with the ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
For the past few weeks I've been playing with Taste, a Java based framework for collaborative filtering (basically the recommendation feature found on sites like Amazon and Netflix). Hopefully in the near feature this tool will be incorporated in our site, MyFriendSuggests.com to improve our suggestion algorithms.
What I found was ...
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
During the development of our first 'real' site, http://www.myfriendsuggests.com, we never really paid too much attention to the URLs that our site was generating. We did some reading and heard that clean URLs were important for SEO reasons but at the same time we saw the GoogleBot crawling our site ...
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