technologyreview.com — To keep recommendations from being all over the map, the system calculates connections for each topic separately, so that two users who share an interest in video games won't be thought to have, say, like opinions on political stories. To keep recommendations diverse, the system shows only a certain number of stories from each compatible user.
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laserobJul 8, 2008
I thought I'd enjoy it, but find myself going to display all every time instead. I wish I could default back to that. Maybe I just have a stubborn "don't tell me what I like" attitude.
daniel591992Jul 8, 2008
Maybe if they fix the shouts and friends problem, the content will be better. Most people that make it on to the FP only make it because they have tons of digg "friends" and use them to build a network digging each other's stories to the front page. Look at the friends of the person that submitted this story. Many of them have dugg over 500 stories in the past 48 hours. How is that even possible? Digg user KevinFederline dugg 1011 stories in the past 48 hours. Look at his shouts: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/KevinFederline/history/shouts">http://digg.com/users/KevinFederline/history/shout ...</a>When is the digg team going to address the obvious gaming going on? Until then, the recommendation engine is going to be flawed by people who digg things that don't even interest them.
barackalypseJul 8, 2008
Articles of interest, you mean like the Digg front page, because the front page usually has 2 articles at any time that I find interesting enough to follow and read, whereas in two pages of Digg's recommendation's I didn't find a single topic of interest. I think that takes some skill, to use data about what I said I have liked and disliked and yet still do a substantially worse job than something that the site has had since the very beginning.
conwaysb0718Jul 8, 2008
I dont really care for the recommendations as of this moment. I rarely find myself interested in anything thats recommended and more often than not immediately click over to the regular new submission page. I do kinda like seeing the other users who are X percent like me, but even then, at this point i really dont care about it for as much work seems to be going into it.
benologistJul 8, 2008
@ Daniel - they addressed it by requiring a more diverse range of diggs so your friends digging your own story isn't enough to make it go popular. Unfortunately the spammers are addressing that by making sharing a requirement in addition to the digg swapping - they send a shout to their friends with your story, you send a shout to your friends with their story, everybody just got a hundred or more "varied" diggs.
tj11240Jul 9, 2008
Can't digg use more than the last 30 days?
sfrenchJul 9, 2008
You bring up an point worth mentioning "netflix did better"Completely hypothetical situation, but imagine if you had to pay for each digg you made. Besides the obvious fact that you would probably digg less, how would you expect that your digging behavior change? And how do you think that altered behavior would feed back into a recommendation engine that looks at diggs that you have made in common with somebody else?Or the converse. Imagine you could rent all the moves you wanted from Netflix, and could request moves as often as you wanted, to the tune of dozens or hundreds per day. Do you think Netflix's recommendations would be as good?In systems like Netflix and Amazon, those two systems have a cost associated with the "choice", and therefore the inputs to the recommendation engines tend to represent a person's taste quite accurately.
thirdprizeJul 9, 2008
I have no friends on here and I hardly ever Digg anything. Let's see how it handles that.
kishosinghSep 7, 2008
Not details in article. I want to know how I can recommend a story in digg?