Alexander Chislenko wrote:
At 06:52 PM 12/11/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote:
Alexander Chislenko wrote:
Firefly Network Inc. has just launched a public beta of our website recommendation service on My Yahoo! This service is the result of a partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and Firefly Network, Inc. in application of Automated Collaborative Filtering (ACF) technology to the Web.[snip] The website recommendation uses the feature-guided ACF server that I hoped would solve most of the algorithmic problems we encountered in the music and movie domains. I'd be interested to know what you think of it.
Thanks for the reply. My experience with Firefly #1 has shown that the people who would most need the service (or need it at all) are the least likely to benefit from it, which is why I think it's a bad thing, wasting a lot of valuable time hand-entering data, only to find it doesn't correlate the more interesting (non-mainstream) data. I'll try the website service, but my up-front instinct is that it won't be much better unless the software is a *whole lot* better.