Friends are often our main source to know what films to watch, what books to read, what restaurants to try. Each one of us, we have our "good sources" : friends that we trust particularly when it comes to recommendations.
Nothing new in that, this the "word of mouth" effect, abundantly described and analyzed. There are many tools available on the Net which enable you to give your friends (and unknown users) your opinions : from very basic star rating systems to more sophisticated dedicated sites. However, we have not found exactly what we think would be a useful tool to let your friends just know what are your
"favorites".
"favorites".
- On most of the sites where it is possible to leave an opinion, these opinions are "permanent", i.e. "I like this film, I give it five stars, for now and ever". But it happens that I want to give 5 stars just now; in a month I would give 5 stars to something else (newer for instance) : my favorites are permanently changing, and I am not going to recommend to my friends something three years old, time is of the essence.
- Moreover, most of the recommendation sites are dedicated to one topic. If I want to give my recent "favorite" restaurants and "favorite" movies, I would have to use different sites.
That is why we have developed a simple app on Facebook, Rankmill "coups de coeur", (my "coup de coeur" in French means more or less my "favorites", my "good tips", my "picks"). You can easily tell your friends your recent favorites for movies, books, music, techno (sites and apps!), ... That will appear on your wall and on their news feed. We are currently developing more functionalities that will make that tool even more useful.
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