Alexander Williams
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Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.
“What seems to be clincher on this is the review system, which attempts to learn with at “three dimensional rating system” exactly the style of news you’re interested in. After you’re done setting up your complex filtering requirements, you can more...
“others are looking to new services to take the next step, highlighting, in advance, those items that are most likely to draw your attention. NoiseRiver, a new service released yesterday, updates your stream based on instructions you give, including your more...
posted 4 days ago
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jaanix, social-networking, friendfeed, noiseriver
( 5 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
The more wallpapers you rate, the more intelligently Socwall can recommend other wallpapers to you.
“So filters are nice and all, BUT, they're not the only thing... -I should learn how to tease more :) - In fact, the real next big thing would the "behavior learning" systems. Or in simpler English, what would be more...
posted 4 days ago
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jaanix, filtering, tags, social-networking, friendfeed, noiseriver
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Tweak The Commentator's Personality Controls as you please and you'll be coding sweetly and more effortlessly than ever before.
Instead of pre-loading the images from the page in micro, you click on them on the underlying page and they highlight as well as pop into the posting box. (I'm never above borrowing good design.)
posted 2 months ago
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jaanix, internet, netiquette, netlore
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Linking blogs to Twitter. Brilliant!
In the Jaanix ecology, the Jubifeed snuffles out the choicest bits of celebrity gossip and splatters it all over your screen from behind.
Integrating RSS data sources with Tumblr. Interestingly, I think Jaanix does a better job of being a Tumble-blog site than Tumblr. If only Jaanix took external RSS feeds as an ongoing feed, it could wholly replace Tumblr.
posted 6 months ago
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jaanix, web, flickr, blogs, blogging, google-reader
( 14 views | 8 jaas | 1 save | 1 reply )
Unlike reddit or news.yc, jaanix has a recommender that is based on implicit trust between the users. Sock puppets destroy this trust.
posted 3 months ago
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jaanix, social, community, sock-puppets
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The results for the Music Recommender Turing Test challenge are in! In this challenge, I posed the question - "Can you tell which music recommendation was generated by a human, and which was generated by a machine?". Two recommendation lists more...
If you can make a kickass product in a very short span of time, and somebody's just given you a metric ton of legal tender, don't hand that money over to some bored graphic designer so they can buy marijuana more...
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