On 12/6/05, Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/5/05, Brian Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd rather have > > tools that help me sift through the river for valuable items. I find > > the recommendations very useful, and would love to see more work like > > this. > > I agree. I'm not interested in "who is the most influential" though I > am VERY interested in "who is the most influential when related to > Chris' links." The former is a game, the latter is a tool for finding > new information. One of the reasons I have stayed with del.icio.us is > that I have a fair amount of trust that Joshua wants to focus on the > usefulness and leverage of the social network effects to uncover and > recover information.
I think both are helpful. In fact, CollaborativeRank supports both. (To see the top experts in someone's links, just use the query via:... and look at the ranking of experts.) In essence, this is the difference between personalized and non-personalized search/recommendations. BTW, it's interesting to note that Google ranks people also through pagerank, though this doesn't seem to upset too many people. Of course, the ranking is not shown explicitly, but it would be interesting to see. Try for example this query on Google to get some approximation of the ranking of people in CSE @ University of Washington: allinurl:homes site:cs.washington.edu As for the idea of turning everything into a game, I think it can yield good results. And it's fun. See for example: www.espgame.org www.peekaboom.org http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/bk/ Of course any ranking of people would result in more people disappointed with their rank than not. But there is no reason to take such a ranking too seriously. It's just a game. And a game that can yield useful information, both personalized and non-personalized. Amir > > c > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
