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#2 works and is a profitable company called tellapart (http://tellapart.com).

#2 reminded me of Directed Edge's generalized recommendations engine (http://directededge.com/).

Cool, didn't know about directedge. Any idea how profitable are they?

[edit] Crunchbase says they only received YC's $15k in seed funding. That's weird for a B2B company.