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October 11, 2011 04:18 am GMT
Back in July I wrote about a nifty iPhone app called Alfred. It's a sort of Yelp meets Pandora: you tell it what kind of restaurants you like, and then it tries to make some solid recommendations.Today Clever Sense, the company behind Alfred, is sharing some early stats and they're looking good. Thus far the application has given 7 million recommendations to users in less than three months. And users have 'Liked' two million venues within the application (you can use a Pandora-esque thumbs up or down tofurthertrain the app's suggestions). Apparently those recommendations ring true, too: the app has 550 ratings and a 4-star average on iTunes.The most important stat, though, concerns the way people are actually using the application. Namely, the fact that some 94% of the requests that go through Alfred are based on 'Serendipity' versus only 6% that are explicit searches.
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Alfred, The iOS Butler, Serves Up Serendipity On A Silver Platter
Back in July I wrote about a nifty iPhone app called Alfred. It's a sort of Yelp meets Pandora: you tell it what kind of restaurants you like, and then it tries to make some solid recommendations.Today Clever Sense, the company behind Alfred, is sharing some early stats and they're looking good. Thus far the application has given 7 million recommendations to users in less than three months. And users have 'Liked' two million venues within the application (you can use a Pandora-esque thumbs up or down tofurthertrain the app's suggestions). Apparently those recommendations ring true, too: the app has 550 ratings and a 4-star average on iTunes.The most important stat, though, concerns the way people are actually using the application. Namely, the fact that some 94% of the requests that go through Alfred are based on 'Serendipity' versus only 6% that are explicit searches.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/G5Gf2N1SF7g/
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