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Meet Experience Engine Stamped

Make way for another recommendation engine, as a team of former Google engineers just launched Stamped. Specializing in “experiences” -- rather than products or mundane services -- the iPhone app is designed to turn social services like Facebook and Twitter into fun and useful sources of experience recommendations.

“With luck, the makers hope, Stamped will eliminate the last minute group text messages and chain emails searching for the best places to eat, movies to watch, or the best art galleries,” writes VentureBeat. Already a step ahead of the game, the idea and its creators were strong enough to attract backing from Google Ventures.

“While there’s lots of ways to do shouts or check-ins about places that appeal to a small demographic of extroverts that like to tell everyone where they are, we still look for better ways for people to put their thumbprint on things, places that they like,” Google Ventures partner Rich Miner tells VentureBeat. “I think Stamped makes that real simple. And with a very simple, straightforward metaphor that everyone likes to tell people about the things they like.”

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