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. It allows users to find interesting websites interest and like-minded people, and otherwise help the user navigate the vast domain of sites and people in an intelligent and personalized way.
I tried Firefly. What a waste. Unless your tastes in most things entertainment-wise are pretty mundane (music=Pearl Jam, Prince, other mainstream drek), they won't be able to find a match at all, no matter how much information you give them!
You are talking about our first site, with music and movie recommendations. I personally rated not-at-all-mainstream movies by Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and got a similar advice. Though, I agree, the recommendations are not perfect. Partly, because the most of the audience are mainstream. Partly, because the site <www.ffly.com> runs the first version of our ACF software server. 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. Also: I created a group profile, name: cypherpunk, password: group that people on this list might use together as a common interest view, or a joint bookmark list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com> www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html Firefly Network, Inc.: <alexc@firefly.net> www.ffly.com 617-234-5452 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------