Just when I started thinking we already had enough social networks and online communities, I suddenly came across Likaholix, the latest project developed by Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan - former Google Product Manager and Google Senior Staff Engineer, respectively.

Likaholix is an online service that lets you share personal recommendations. It can be connected with your Gmail contacts and Facebook friends, and is also linked to Amazon, Wikipedia and other reference sites to provide information about each item you mark as liked and also each item you’re recommended by the system.

So how does Likaholix work? First of all, you have to request an account code because the site is still at a private beta stage, but that shouldn’t take long – I got mine only a couple of hours after requesting it. As soon as you fill in the personal details in your user account, you can start adding items you like. (more…)