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iTunes App store overload? Try Chorus
With the iTunes app store pushing 100,000 choices, we're starting to get cognitive overload. Finally, there's an app for that. It's called Chorus, and it takes advantage of the wisdom of crowds. It gives you recommendations from people you know who've already tried an app, or from "App Mavens," consisting of journalists and motormouthed reviewers in whom you might develop trust over time.
If something like this catches on with millions of users, it could become as useful as Netflix's constantly improving collaborative filtering recommendation engine. There are so many applications in the iTunes app store now, anything would help. Best of all, perhaps the mere existence of Chorus could stimulate Apple to put its iTunes App Store on a 12-step program.
Chorus (iTunes link), via Gizmodo
By Old Man Dotes at 1:16 PM ON 11/03/09
The wisdom of crowds? That would be the same wisdom that gave us Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, GW Bush, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il...
I think I'll stick to boycotting iTunes instead, thanks. That way I'm not tied to a proprietary device that's controlled by an outside force.
By i1patrick at 2:14 PM ON 11/03/09
"The wisdom of crowds? That would be the same wisdom that gave us Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, GW Bush, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il..."
You forget to mention President Obama.
By Braystreet at 2:57 PM ON 11/03/09
Yeah! Obama! That monster, he eliminated attorney-client privilege! He eliminated most of our expectation of privacy in our homes, and he used the death of thousands of citizens to create two pointless wars, and a holocaust of civil rights...
Doh! That was Bush, silly me! Obama was the one that...tried to resurrect an economy killed by the guy before him? Yeah, that was bad, we didn't like that.
By timrob at 12:18 PM ON 11/04/09
"Obama was the one that...tried to resurrect an economy killed by the guy before him? Yeah, that was bad, we didn't like that. " you got it 1/2 right, it was Clinton and his wonderful housing policies.
By WTF at 3:19 PM ON 11/08/09
all i can say is, WTF. lol politics? in the comments of a dvice app review? really? how sad
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