Session 12: Research & Recommendations
Video
Presenting Companies
GoodGuide
GoodGuide.com provides free and easy access to the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental and social impacts of products and companies. Today, GoodGuide offers ratings on over 60,000 products commonly found in your home - from baby shampoo to household cleaners - making it quick and easy to find safe and healthy products that are right for you and good for the planet. GoodGuide helps you see what's behind the label, find better products, get expert advice, and view recommendations based on what's most important to you. GoodGuide delivers the information you need anytime, anywhere - online or on your phone. In the coming months, GoodGuide will be adding new product information for food, toys, electronics, automobiles, and beyond, making it the best resource for buying safe, healthy and green products that protect you and your family. Read the TechCrunch post about GoodGuide here. |
GoPlanit
GoPlanit is the travel planner that's useful on the go. Travel planning can be very frustrating and time-consuming. One can spend weeks or even months researching details, organizing travel plans, and communicating with others. GoPlanit helps simplify this process - saving you time, money, and aggravation! Our "Planit and Go" travel planner creates a custom trip itinerary for you at the click of a button. GoPlanit's recommendation engine uses proprietary algorithms to build out your trip, taking into account your personal preferences, friends' recommendations, and each item's popularity, rating, location, hours of operation, and more. With GoPlanit mobile, you can access your itinerary and search for nearby things to do and see. GoPlanit's travel micro-blogging feature also allows you to easily update your trip journal in real-time with notes, pictures, and ratings from your mobile phone, keeping friends up to date at all times. Planning a trip? GoPlanit and Go! |
TrueCar
TrueCar was created by automotive and technology pioneers to show consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their geographic area. More importantly, TrueCar will give real guidance on what a consumer should consider a good price, a great price or over-priced. It's a free online tool - empowering consumers with the only true, unbiased and relevant new car pricing information available. |
Goodrec
Goodrec is a mobile and online recommendation service that provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources. The service makes it easy to make, find and remember actionable recommendations from anywhere: online, via its iPhone application or from any mobile browser. Goodrec enables fast and informed decision-making with 'Thumbs Up'/'Thumbs Down' recommendations and valuable Quick Tips. Its proprietary technology makes intelligent suggestions based on personal taste and friends' recommendations across categories including restaurants, movies, books and more, and displays "recs" for nearby spots in location-based categories. Users can quickly find exactly what they want by sorting and filtering "recs" based on personal preferences, location or "want to" lists of bookmarked recommendations. Goodrec ensures that users are always informed about the places and things they will like most, assured they are getting the information from the people they know and trust, and confident that they are making a smart decision. |
iamnews (DemoPit Winner)
DemoPit Companies collected poker chips from attendees and iamnews collected the most to get the last spot on stage at the end of the conference. Learn more about iamnews on its Demo Pit page. |
Expert Panelists
 Don Dodge |  Loïc Le Meur |  Sean Parker |  Jeff Weiner |
