Thursday, February 7, 2008

GoogleTechTalks on WikiLens - User generated recommendation data

A talk by Dan Frankowski on BEER!  More spefically Frankowski talks about WikiLens.org, a site which allows users to start their own recommendation systems on any topic including beer.  This system works similar to a wiki but does require some level of user rating before changes are allowed to be made.  Like a wiki, users can start a new topic or add content to an existing topic.  The goals of project are to allow users to FIND, ADD, create DEEP CHANGE, MICRO-CONTRIBUTE, and SEE OTHERS. 


FIND: Members should be able to find items that interest them
ADD: Members should be able to add items immediately
DEEP CHANGE: Members should be able to uniquely identify items, and define and redefine their attributes and organization
MICRO-CONTRIBUTE: Members should be able to make small contributions
SEE OTHERS: Members should be able to see each other and their contributions

Frankowski is  software engineer for Google Groups and his paper is called "Recommenders Everywhere."

The video: (~35 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgLSb9Dbz8


The slides:

http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/wikilens12.ppt

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