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Search locally in Boston with Zync

Search locally in Boston with Zync

Finding local amenities is a tough task when traveling, let along in your area. A Boston company aims at helping personalized local search through algorithmic recommendations.

Zync has developed a prediction algorithm that enables users to pull in recommendations based on personal taste. Being that it's difficult to sift through recommendations for large cities, Zync takes into account personal tastes and the opinions of people you trust in order to model search results. Friends can share with each other what services, restaurants and locations that they enjoy, ranking them higher for their contact list.

Zync has currently only opened up only for Boston based results.

[via StartupSquad]

Filed under: Developer, Fun, Internet, Windows, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software

Yahoo Zync, watch videos with your friends in sync

yahoo zync video sharing in real timeSimply put, Zync is a plug-in for Yahoo Messenger that allows users to watch videos with friends in real time.

Yahoo kicked off this project at Yahoo Research Berkeley, a facility to explore and invent social media and mobile media technologies. The Zync plug-in allows video sharing in sync and in real time. Instead of sending friends an IM with the video link, videos from YouTube, Google videos, and of course Yahoo, can be played in the browser between friends in sync. Both parties also have control of the playback of the video, and chat about it instantly.

The Zync plug-in is currently only available for PC's.

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