5 Early Recommendation Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches - ReadWriteWeb

International recommendation technology provider Strands has announced the five finalists in the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups. From music to video to pharmaceutical drug development recommendations, these plucky startups from all around the world will now present at the Association for Computing Machinery's Recommender Systems 2008 conference in Switzerland and one will be offered a $100k investment from Strands.