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- ninesquaredis81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I think one key piece of data most recommendations services fail to take in to account are contradictions. For instance, I am a big fan of System of a Down but I have no interest in Korn, Staind, or the Deftones. I think that says something really interesting about me - whereas when I tell it to Amazon they just keep recommending Korn, Staind, and the Deftones.
When I "surprise" a recommendation service by disliking something it thought I would love or vice versa, I think this should be marked as a key piece of data. Then, I should be matched with people who have similar contradictory tastes. Because, if they share my quirks, they are probably very similar to me. - stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Google is already doing that.
- zachblume, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Did you just call Google stupid?
- mateos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/randommirror.php
kinda old, but a really interesting speculative look at google's future. (LGT video) - eric1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, it was pretty cool, but not good for identifying things like people. More often than not, you'd write something like "man" or "woman", not knowing who the actual person was -- not too useful when doing a search.
- kingace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hmm, so everyone buy the most perverted, horrible, smut in the world and we'll see what kind of advertisements start showing up.
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6They should know I use Adblock then!
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you use a credit card you're already doomed, internet or not.
That is, if you've been doing things like gambling online, or you bought magical Mormon underwear. - toprank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Privacy/options are the ying/yang of the online world.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm hoping to confuse these systems by doing Christmas & birthday shopping using the same accounts. My mother & sister have different tastes to me. It means my Amazon recomendations are useless, but I can't say I care much about that.
- OsakaWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is EVIL. Unless they ask nicely.
- zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh! Im so embarrassed!
- whipnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it's called Amazon.
* - lepton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My new site http://www.myallo.com is in fact a "discovery engine" as described in the article. It's a unique setup that literally learns your interests and calls up articles from around the Web that you'll find interesting. I was wondering how to describe it!
- Abno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think the obsession is people find entertainment to be entertaining. Go figure.
- Sahtor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That favorite movie prediction has to be fake but I still liked this article.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think recommendation services are a wonderful thing.
Amazon often tries to make product recommendation with often laughable results
but that's ok, at lease there trying. I don't mind being marketed to but..
If you start spamming me, sending me tons of snail mail, ringing my cell phone,
trashing my search results. I'll hunt you down and cook you like the pig you are. - reservoirdogs78, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've found http://seeqpod.com to be a very different kind of recommendation tool, and very useful.
- marka87uk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@ sbovisjb1: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ :)
- theredbicycle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@eric1
the same could be said for everything from flowers to cars to people, but if you had "experts" going over the pictures it could work. - bonked, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2That is by far one of the most intelligent ideas I have read on this subject ninesquaredis81 - dugg up. I agree, and hope that data mining products start to take this sort of thing into account more often.
- kingace, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Problem is, the only way for this to be reflected online is through user input. A computer can't exactly guess that from the way you type, or the way you move your mouse.
- FinalDoom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0For music, http://pandora.com/ is very good, in my opinion, and it doesn't eat your computer like seeqpod seems to be doing to mine.
- sashaboyd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0a new music recommendation too I've been using is http://seeqpod.com/music
- sorryusername, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0What's this obsession with Entertainment?! Next movie to watch? Next music to listen to? Which console to buy? Like there's no tomorrow if there's no movie tonite that's better than the last night's. "Surrogate activities", indeed...
- sonofasteven80, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0I tried out the site they mention, What To Rent, and got pretty good results- big ups!
- sbovisjb1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I remember in popular science they were discussing a project, where you are randomly paired with a person and then you are shown images. If you both put the same word for what you think of that image, that is what it becomes. They stated that if 10K people were playing nonstop, google images could be sorted in 3 months. They said that google was looking at the project at the time.
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