Tag: ZYNC

Finding local amenities is a tough task when traveling, let along in your area. A Boston company aims at helping personalized local search through algorithmic recommendations. Zync has developed a prediction algorithm that enables users to pull in recommendations based on personal taste. Being that it's difficult to sift through recommendations for large cities, Zync takes into account personal ...

Simply put, Zync is a plug-in for Yahoo Messenger that allows users to watch videos with friends in real time. Yahoo kicked off this project at Yahoo Research Berkeley, a facility to explore and invent social media and mobile media technologies. The Zync plug-in allows video sharing in sync and in real time. Instead of sending friends an IM with the video link, videos from YouTube, Google videos, ...