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Reputation (trust) vs. User Interest (ego)
Posted by Tim Hastings in Commentary on August 3, 2010
When trying to find interesting people online, it is useful to be able to differentiate between somebody who is very interested in a particular subject from somebody who has a good reputation for that subject. In the example below, there is a very shy but talented Elvis impersonator. By examining the tweets, we can see [...]
Twitter User Reputation Computed from Tweets
Posted by Tim Hastings in Commentary on November 26, 2009
The Twitter ecosystem has lots of different reputation mechanisms at the moment and I would like to discuss these and then make my own contribution. User Generated Directories There are directories like wefollow.com where users add themselves by choosing which categories they belong. This is effective, but I see there are some flaws with this [...]
Experimental Foursquare Recommendations
Posted by Tim Hastings in Commentary on August 4, 2010
Foursquare and Locations After many months of operation, TagWalk has collected over 100 million tweets, and tracked over 40 million URLs. There are increasing numbers of Foursquare URLs popping up, and due to good RESTful design from the Foursquare team, I noticed that when users tweet their checkins, it is possible to pattern match their [...]
foursquare, mashups, recommendation, twitter
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