Kevin Burton? Reputation guy? Hey, it IS you! Cool. Your post got me thinking about this topic... blog post in the works about reputation portability and social networking APIs. And then I realized who you are.
The ranking stuff is always interesting... but it always seems to be a solution in search of a problem. The problem usually seems to be, "Who should I follow?" and then the rankings seem so obvious as to be low value... and I start wondering how this could be personalized. The big rankings tell me who *everybody* should follow, but I want to know who *I* should follow... and now I'm wondering how, with all the APIs around, I can base that on much more than just Twitter-sourced data. I keep thinking about community detection these days, too. In other words, analyzing the social graph to identify communities that may not have identified themselves yet. In fact, I tend to think these two things are really the same thing, from different angles. The people who I should follow are people I'm implicitly in community with anyway - shared contact, shared interests, etc. On the other hand, all this begs the question of what community is, why it has value, etc. What's the value in giving a group of people the feedback that hey, you guys are behaving like a community? What does that self-awareness trigger? I'm rambling... but it was good to suddenly realize that this burtonater is the same guy I've been paying attention to over the years. I'll be up in SF next week if you'd like to connect. Nick On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM, burton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys. > > We just pushed this today: > > http://spinn3r.com/rank/twitter.php > > as part of our Spinn3r 3.1 release: > > > http://blog.spinn3r.com/2009/06/spinn3r-31---now-with-twitter-support-and-social-media-ranking.html > > Would love feedback. > > If this is valuable for the community we would be willing to compute > deeper rankings (on a deeper crawl) and recompute this more regularly > (once every two weeks or so). > > Kevin >
