GigPark, a social recommendation service based out of Toronto, recently announced a partnership deal with the newly launched user car website Autohound.ca. With GigPark’s technology incorporated into Autohound, used car shoppers on Autohound can see recommendations for each dealer and add their own testimonials. Check out an example.
This is GigPark’s first-ever partnership. The company has plans to launch a public API in the coming months to allow other companies, sites and web developers to make use of their social recommendation technology.
In other GigPark news, they also recently announced the winner of their first iPhone giveaway contest (congratulations Karolina Loboda of Toronto!). The second such contest is currently underway, and all you have to do to enter is to recommend three businesses on GigPark for your chance to win a free iPhone3G.
When it comes to finding a real estate agent, accountant or personal trainer, friends recommend the best people. GigPark's mission is to make it... [more]
Varun Mathur
Varun Mathur is the Techvibes Community Manager in Toronto, focused on covering local tech startups, news and events. He is also a Co-founder and Product Manager at Zytran, a Toronto-based web startup which developed and launched Alertle.com - a personal news aggregator (Alertle's version 1.0 got widespread global coverage, with reviews written about it...[more]
