Dr. Serkan Toto is currently working as the first and only Asian-based writer for the TechCrunch network, mainly covers with Japan technology and Web companies for TechCrunch, CrunchGear and MobileCrunch. Serkan also works full-time as an independent Internet and mobile industry consultant with a focus on the Japanese market. He is Saint lingual, holds an MBA and a doctorate in economics. Serkan ... ? Read More
Got more mobile applications, the more it becomes a problem detection for users: Apple, for example, recently announced the availability of 425000 applications in the App Store. Ratings, recommendations, platform vendors, or search frequently yielded unsatisfactory results – pain that application called AppGrooves [version 2.0, free on iTunes] now tries to solve.
There are a lot of recommendation engines, there's already (i.e. Chomp or Frenzapp), but AppGrooves is in a different direction: the idea is to combine proprietary recommendation algorithm "hot or not"-function and social element for detecting unknown iOS cool apps.
The way it works is that AppGrooves first determines what applications are installed on your device. In order to find new, which correspond to your taste, AppGrooves, and then lets you choose between various pairs of apps he pulls from the list of applications you want on your device in the style of "hot or not" (i.e. "which do you like better: Pandora or Spotify?").
What is interesting is that AppGrooves allows you to let your Facebook friends to vote on the application: after the vote on a couple of apps, you can not only share your decision, but ask your friends Facebook app, which they would have chosen in this case, too. AppGrooves also collects the votes from all your friends, using OK and collects these social votes in order to provide a more personalized recommendations over time (you can access this social hit list from AppGrooves at any time). And if social isn't your thing, the search function of your application, you can use to search for applications with similar descriptions of the user, etc.
AppGrooves is one of the companies the accelerator in the summer of 2011 500 startups. Its founder (and Japanese), Dr. Naoki Shibata stepped from Tokyo University, Stanford University and Japan's largest e-commerce company Rakuten to move to Silicon Valley.
Shibata, the objective is to ensure the global from the very first day of his company, and his plan presumably works: AppGrooves $ 360000 in just closed an angel round from some of the celebrities in the United States and Japan, including 500 startups, Richard Chen (founding partner of AngelPad) to Mochio Umeda (President of MUSE Associates), Takao Ozawa and Gen Miyazawa (two Japan-based Angel investors).
AppGrooves-iOS application that recommends that iPhone and iPad applications. AppGrooves is going to fill the gap between the main App Store (Apple) and a modern enlarged EU ...
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