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 [...]
analytics, recommendation, reputation, twitter, wisdom of crowds
Posted by Tim Hastings in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009
Last Saturday I attended the BarCamp Leeds and gave a talk about Data Mining Twitter to talk about the theory behind TagWalk and then gave a demonstration. After a shakey start with projector difficulties, the session got back on track and there was a good number of questions and recommendations.
TagWalk is a reputation and recommendation engine for discovering interesting things on Twitter.
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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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