If you want to explore beyond the places your friends think are the most enjoyable, or those the general public thinks are enjoyable, you need to seek out curators who are sufficiently far from you in cultural terms and who’ve annotated their cities in their own ways.
Tag: personalization
Authentic Travel
mentions trufflepig and tafaritravel, 2 tasty travel companies.
Personalized fashion
A trip to the FIT museum with its 1000s of fashion pieces from 500 years made me wonder why we can’t have it all? Where is the startup that lets me pick whatever I like from a catalog that spans the centuries, takes my measurements and then produces the garments in a fully automated factory? Failing that, how about leveraging that same labor that now brings us crappy jeans? A catalog so vast my require some recommendation technology to help me make picks, too.
Seefeld points to coco myles. Wired reports on a 3D scanner for taking body measurements.
Search personalization
Requires a few 100 queries per user before the users interests converge. they call this problematic, but seriously who doesn’t search all the time?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 