Ulike.net is an entertainment suggestions website, co-founded three years ago by French entrepreneurs Mathieu Léronde & Raphaël Labbé. According to Raphaël, they spent one year on the algorhythm before having the website running two years ago. Ulike is all about sharing what you like or hate and getting recommendations: It offers 50 different categories with subgroups, i.e. books, music, movies, people, characters, cities or countries. Based on your ratings in these categories, Ulike gives you recommendations matching your interests so that you can discover new things. So it acts as a filter for any kind of entertainment.
Raphaël points out that when it comes to music or books on the web, making discoveries „is ok right now, for example with LibraryThing“, but what’s new with Ulike is its broad approach and the possibility of building bridges from one content to another. I.e. Ulike will recommend a book based on your movie and music taste. Furthermore, it helps you to meet other people with the same tastes.
With 70.000 - mainly European - users and 6 mio. ratings on its website, there are already 300.000 items on Ulike’s website. Each day 200 items are added by its core contributors. „Hopefully one day our userbase will be as big as the one of Last.fm“, says Raphaël. He points out that „we are still early in the process of having the personalized, collaborative, filtering algorhythm deployed around content.“ In order to broaden Ulike’s market, Raphaël wants „to evangelize the possibilities of that recommendation“ through TV or press content. Ulike raised money from French insurer AXA and has „good Business Angels“.
In order to get a feel for Ulike, check out Raphaël’s lounge http://www.ulike.net/leafar
One Response to “Raphaël Labbé – Ulike.net: Sharing your tastes
21.01.2009 at 12:01
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