Backed By $1.4M From Celebrity Investors, Qloo Launches A Netflix-Style Discovery Engine For Culture

Screen shot 2012-11-08 at 12.54.42 AMAs the Web evolves and hundreds of sites collect data every day on who we are and what we love to do, personalization has become fundamental to user experience to help users find signal amidst the noise. Some companies utilize our social graph to provide recommendations from the people we trust, while others mine Big Data, incoming data from APIs and more. The problem, however, is that most recommendation engines focus on verticals — we go to Netflix for recommendations on movies, Pandora and Spotify for music, Yelp for food, GoodReads for books and so on — leading to fragmentation and a disappointing user experience.

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