Info, Info Everywhere
Recommender Systems: Can the Internet find your perfect match?
Have you seen? Match.com
has registered over 1,300,000 members worldwide since 1995. Their matching technology
provides instantaneous matches based upon your pre-selected dating criteria.
Did you know? The GroupLens Research Project in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota has been
developing recommender system technology since 1992.
Several of the researchers started Net
Perceptions, a company that provides realtime recommendation technology for
applications in e-commerce, Web site personalization, and Web site targeted advertising.
IOTA Interview: Paul
Resnick, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information
Balkanization Theory: Does the amount of information on the Internet cause you to expand your
horizons or narrow your focus?
Did you know? Depending on how it's used, the Internet can either
expand or reduce the number of different information sources people use.
Have you seen? Marshall Van Alstyne's homepage links to various papers on
Balkanization.
Kids Online: How do
we balance freedom of speech with the parents' rights to protect their children online?
Did you know? There is no single ratings board for Web sites, as
there is for movies or television, in this country. Instead, different ratings services
offer different ratings systems. Some software allows you to customize your own ratings.
Have you seen? The Safesurf
Web site.
In a Haze of Information: Is there such a thing as too much information?
Did you know? In a 1997 survey conducted by Reuters,
one in four managers admitted they had become ill because of information overload.
Have you seen? Examples of recommender systems for filtering
information on the Firefly site.
Pushy Computers:
How can you choose what information to receive from the Web?
Have you thought about? Push technologies might end up working as a
screen so fewer people will access unconventional sites.
Have you seen? Botspot
spots the hottest bots.
Are We There Yet?: How do you find what you're looking for on the Web?
Did you know? Efforts are being made to create an efficient
indexing system to make searching the Web easier.
Have you seen? Dublin Core,
a 15-element metadata element set.
Using a "Spyglass" To Find
Documents: How can you easily find what you're looking for on your
computer?
Did you know? With a Pad++ "magic lens", you can see the
French translation of a paragraph written in English. |
