Earlier this week we posted a Guide to Recommender Systems, as part of our series on recommendation technologies. In this post we look at some of the challenges in building Continue reading »

Noovo is a full-on lifestreaming / blogging / bookmarking / everything (except social network) app that launched out of private beta last week. It calls itself a "social discovery engine"; Continue reading »

Thanks to MP3s and the Internet, we now have millions of songs readily available to us with the click of a button, but, paradoxically, this has often made it even Continue reading »

We're running a special series on recommendation technologies and in this post we look at the different approaches - including a look at how Amazon and Google use recommendations. The Continue reading »

We're currently running a series of posts about recommendation technologies and in the comments of our last post about the Netflix Prize, a company called Jinni made itself known. digg_url Continue reading »

We're starting a new series here on ReadWriteWeb about recommendation engines. We identified recommendations as one of 5 trends to watch at the start of 2008; and that's even more Continue reading »

Let's say you like RSS feeds. Let's say you're looking for some more good ones to subscribe to so you don't miss good stuff. There are a number of ways Continue reading »

When we last spent time with RateItAll - roughly 18 months ago - the service had just released a Flash-based widget designed to help extend its reach to blogs. Today, Continue reading »

Back in the days when you used to have to walk into a video store to rent a VHS tape, I would go through the same thing every week. After Continue reading »

Personalized recommendations have always been one of those technologies that look great on paper, but hardly ever work quite as well as advertised. This week, we got a chance to Continue reading »