Pilot series on recommender applications: how they work, where they are used, problems solved during implementation and discussion of applications in social networking.
Podcast: first in a series of four to introduce recommender applications: editorial recommenders, social recommenders, content filtering and collaborative filtering.Listen now.
2nd in a series of 4 podcasts on Recommender applications; user data gathering, scaling, privacy and user data ownership issues; Google News, Amazon recommendations, product suggestions, Netflix, iTunes, Last.fm.Listen now.
User value derived from and user perception of recommendations from recommender systems; quality metrics; role of content aggregators and media conglomerates in recommender ecosystem: Amazon, Netflix, iTunes, CNet, Consumer Reports, iLike, Flixster, MovieCritic, MovieLens. Questions from listeners on multi-tiered print recommenders like Zagat.Listen now.