Social Recommendations with Earnings

With Ciao there is another social shopping service available, which pays for reviews. It is a comparison shopping site, that offers product reviews and recommendations by members and price comparisons. The site is free to join and offers a lot of features. Beside comparisons and recommendations there are product lists and video reviews by members.

I know Ciao for long. It has been one of the first services offering product reviews by internet users. As far as I know it started in Germany and expanded through Europe. Today the service is active in Europe and North America. According to the corporate homepage it has been acquired by Microsoft lately.

Video Interface with Recommendation Engine

Here is a further service in the range of new interfaces to access internet video. DNAStream is a video surfboard with a couple of navigation features. What makes it special are automated recommendations.

To navigate there is a menu at the left to access internet tv, a search function at the upper right and by mouse over at the bottom. The menu at the right is what makes DNAStream special. The service integrates several recommendation functions, which are realized by a recommendation engine. Opposite to social networking recommendation engines do suggest interesting stuff by technical means based on a user profile, bookmarks and maybe behavior. DNAStream has several recommendation areas, the menu at the right and a mouse over area at the bottom.