Jemimus' Blog

Jon Udell: Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us

That coolness factor of browsing and finding other people’s del.icio.us pages because they seem to share a common interest, could be, in part, an automatic process. Here John introduces a way it could be done, very very cool!

I have been filling in key-words of my interests like, for-ever, in profile pages all over the internet. And I dont think that info has ever spawned an online relationship with anyone else.. 

With the approach John shows here, we can go beyond these superficial keywords, and drill down deeply into a persons interest space. The only downside to this is that where are still being rather virtical here, as in we must bear in mind that we are only looking at a persons bookmarking behaviour, which says nothing of his information-consumption behavior like what he browses, what feeds he aggregates.

Though of course the latter can be analyzed if one uses a service such as bloglines.

If you where to take my del.icio.us page, and compare it to my bloglines page, you get a far more nuanced view of what I do online, and where my interests lie. The next step thus, is to aggregate that information together, and there are many more sources that one could reference in this manner. My blog for instance. Or my personal website. And then there is other kind of meta-info on me, like my online reputation on sites like ebay, slashdot, tweakers.net, or how about online CV’s or forum activity, or comment activity?

What if one would create a crawler application that, using all of these sources, could compine a complete ‘view’ of my digital online self?

The problem though, is that ‘social’ internet tools, that effectively visualize this stuff, are not all that common yet. Bloglines, Del.icio.us, and Flickr, and a few others, are still few and far between.

And then there is privacy. Now personally, I have no problem sharing all this metadata about myself. I would not even mind my browsing habbits being monitored to service the ‘social’ metaspace like I do with the above-mentioned services, provided I had complete and transparent control over when what was monitored.

Wouldnt it be kinda creepy, once we indeed had a centralized match-and-compare system for all of this data, if you where to run into another person online that mirrored you and your interestes in every way? And online doppelganger, so to speak

This is cool. I have in the past tried to explain to peers why I follow certain blogs, and why I feel these blogs are inportant.

Now all I have to do is send them here.

Tony Perkins:

AlwaysOn and Technorati are pleased to present the first annual "Open Media 100,"  the power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution. If you fancy Vanity Fair's  annual New Establishment list of the media and IT titans who matter (like we didn't already know), you might think of the Open Media 100  as the new,  new establishment - people you may not know but probably should. Although many of these folks may never grace the pages of the high-gloss pubs, they will most certainly be keeping an independent eye on those who do. As we've all witnessed, this is already happening. Both Dan Rather and CNN news chief Eason Jordon were handed their walking papers after being busted by bloggers.

The purpose of this list is to provide an initial, helpful framework of this emerging industry and highlight its key players who are influencing the adoption of open media and proving the impact it is already having on the technology industry, journalism, and marketing. To achieve this goal, we created the following categories: Pioneers, Trendsetters, Practitioners, Toolsmiths, and Enablers. We combined both a subjective and objective process, including nominations from bloggers, surveys, and measurable data using Technorati’s blog search engine, which tracks more than 11.5 million weblogs and over 1.2 billion links. We respectfully acknowledge that the list represents our best educated guess in a fast-changing and fluid market. There are obviously many other folks one could persuasively argue should be included (hence our 50 honorable mentions list). And we admit that there was no way we could do justice on this list to the many great open media contributors operating outside of the U.S. who did not pop up on our radar screen.

http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx

Not everyone seems to have been pushed to this new version yet.
You are required to install a new ActiveX control for this to work.

Also.. I have read reports that is’t still got some performance problems and general buggyness.

Using the same technology as WSUS, Microsoft Update will update not just your Windows versions, but also other applications like Office, SQL, Etc. More products to be added over time.