My good friend Joe did some coding for whoisi a few weeks ago and I finally got around to merging it into the production code base. He’s added a really handy little feature: recommendations.
If you’re following a few people on the site and you’re looking for other people who might be related to them, the recommendation feature tries to make a guess based on other followers of the same people. In order to get the best out of the feature you need to be following people that have been on the site for a while and might be followed by other people. It uses other people’s following habits as the basis for recommendations so in this sense it’s pretty similar to the way that Netflix’s recommendation system works. (Although I’m sure the actual algorithm is very different.)
It should be fun - try it out and thank Joe if you see him!
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July 22, 2008 at 11:00 pm
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July 22, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Paul Cutler
I guess the question is now, are you following your recommendations? :)
Thanks for the shout out!
July 22, 2008 at 10:50 pm
blizzard
Yeah, the recommendations feature found some people I didn’t know were listed. It totally helped me.
July 22, 2008 at 11:19 pm
greggles
Hi.
I read this through planet mozilla. I’d rather that planet mozilla only include mozilla topics. Announcing Whoisi once was OK. But blogging about so many changes is a little overboard.
Thanks,
Greg
July 22, 2008 at 11:20 pm
blizzard
I thought that planet mozilla only carried my mozilla-related topics. I guess not.
July 23, 2008 at 2:54 am
Ploum
I’m totally fan of whoisi.com !
Features I miss :
1) A easily accessible list of supported URL/webservices
2) A silly feature that tell you how many people are following a given name.
July 23, 2008 at 3:02 am
Ploum
Another 2 features I would like to see :
3) Search people by URL. If I enter an already recorded URL (Say a blog RSS feed), ut should tell me that this URL belongs to the person XXX. (but it might worth to still be able to create a new person. Some people share the same blog).
4) Put the favicon of a given RSS feed next to him as for other services.
I really like Whoisi, it’s incredibly good and I don’t have to convince my friends to use it like you should do for twitter/facebook/….
July 23, 2008 at 10:25 am
blizzard
Most of those features are on the drawing books. Thanks!