Likaholix is a fun and easy way to share and discuss your likes and discover new ones with people you know. You can like anything from a great book you have read to your favorite food to some art work that you love.
We have found that recommendations from friends, whose tastes, you trust are usually much better than most reviews on the web. Most people, when they are out on social occasions with friends, find themselves exchanging notes and discussing things that they like. We hope to bring the same experience online with Likaholix. Likaholix serves as both a self-expression and a recommendation tool. We provide personalized recommendations based on the people, topics and items you like.
Technology behind Likaholix
To help users create likes, we built a database of various items across the web including books, movies, tv shows and products. For each of these items, we have a list of landing pages which describe the item, various significant topics about the item along with images and videos of the item. We built this database by crawling the web and using data from Freebase and Wikipedia. To supplement this database, we also use real time Google web, image and video search results when users create likes.
We use Python for our crawl, data analysis and some backend servers. Our recommendation system is built using Solr, and our website is developed using PHP and JQuery backed by a MySQL database. We use Facebook Thrift for communication between servers and serializing data. We run our crawl and data processing on Amazon EC2 and S3 and use Cloudfront for media serving. The website is hosted on dedicated Linux servers at M5 Hosting.
Likaholix is a simple and fun way to share and discuss your likes with friends. You can share anything from a book that you have read, a movie that you recently saw or a hotel that you have stayed at. Try it out. It can be fun.
Likaholix, Get Personalized Recommendations Based on Your Likes!! Get $3 for Every Friend You Invite!!
Sign Up Today!!
Popularity: 1% [?]
Its very nice and informative post. Its very useful info. thanks
I’ve gone and signed up for Likaholix, the process is fast and pain-free, which is important in today’s ADD internet environment. Whether I’ll be using it much is another issue altogether, we will have to wait and see.
Wow ! Likaholix is an interesting service because it’s so simple. Like Twitter and FriendFeed before it, there isn’t a large barrier to entry; you can easily jump in and get started with it.
The process is fast and pain-free, which is important in today’s ADD internet environment.