LikeMe

Founded in 2008, LikeMe.Net is a lifestyle recommendation engine that harnesses social networking to power personally relevant search results and discovery. Based in Denver, Colorado, LikeMe.Net is in partnership with the Village Voice Media Company.

As a LikeMe member, you upload the vital stats on yourself and your favorite places and things, which both turbo-charges the website's collaborative filtering platform and activates your own personalized recommendation engine. When you search, LikeMe accesses a network of people who have the same taste as you and gives you their best recommendations for the city you're traveling to, or even in your own hometown. There's no weeding through a long list of positive and negative reviews wondering whose opinions you can trust, and you won't get the same recommendations as your parents, your colleagues, or your third grade teacher.