Alfred, The iOS Butler, Serves Up Serendipity On A Silver Platter

Back in July I wrote about a nifty iPhone app called Alfred. It's a sort of Yelp meets Pandora: you tell it what kind of restaurants you like, and then it tries to make some solid recommendations. Today Clever Sense, the company behind Alfred, is sharing some early stats ?�and they're looking good. Thus far the application has given 7 million recommendations to users in less than three months. And users have 'Liked' two million venues within the application (you can use a Pandora-esque thumbs up or down to�further�train the app's suggestions). Apparently those recommendations ring true, too: the app has 550 ratings and a 4-star average on iTunes. The most important stat, though, concerns the way people are actually using the application. Namely, the fact that some 94% of the requests that go through Alfred are based on 'Serendipity' versus only 6% that are explicit searches.

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