--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Hudack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the future I do believe we'll be presenting "Related" videos on this > page. The related videos will probably be driven by a collaborative > filtering system. Right now we're evaluating four different CF systems. > These systems work by providing recommendations on two planes: videos > that are subject-matter similar to the video you're watching now and > videos that are similar to videos you've expressed interest in before > (based on a number of criteria like how long you watched videos, which > videos you watched more than others, how you responded to them by > commenting or rating, et cetera).
Check this out. I was on YouTube the other day and I favorited a Japanese hip hop video. A little latter I went back to watch it again and I noticed four of my favorites and one of my own videos in the related videos box of the music video. These videos had nothing to do with the music video. I thought, "wow, my favorites are controlling the related videos!" But the next day I went back again and the related videos were all of the Japanese band. So somehow they filtered out. YouTube is genius at finding and promoting viral videos. It's going to be hard to beat them at that game. I rarely ever watch videos on the blip show pages. And it's not because of the layout. It's because the serious content creators who use your site tend to set up their own sites and organize their content that way. But I like what blip is doing with Five Head. I think that's the right direction. A TV channel with a chat room right there. People want to be exposed to new content but they're lazy about it. They don't want to swim through a river of shit to get there. But if someone was operating a ferry, they might take that ride. Especially if they can yell "this is SHIT!" at the operator. -John, totalvom.com
