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deusx : Offer Personal Content Recommendations for Free with New MyBlogLog Plug-in - ReadWriteWeb - Hey, Delicious should finally do something like this: "When a MyBlogLog visitor visits a site with the plug-in running, the system looks at the tags that user provided for their interests when they created their MyBlogLog account. It then finds blog
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joshua : Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett
philgyford : Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett | Business Pundit - I love lists of books recommended by people who know what they're talking about. (via Kottke)
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : MuxFind, search for songs on Muxtape - this can't last long [via]
philgyford : MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes - Finds muxtapes (online playlists) similar to artists or other muxtapes you like. (via Haddock)
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Shift Happens – The Future of Advertising - Advertising is a case in point. Seismic shifts are shaking up the world of advertising big time. But which shift is most relevant? And what are the implications for executives?
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13 month ago
joshua : Netflix Update: Try This at Home - interesting incremental feature detection algorithm
gleuschk : Netflix Update: Try This at Home - awesome step-by-step on attacking the netflix problem. magic ingredient: singular value decomposition
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15 month ago
gleuschk : del.icio.us Is The Recommendation Service For The Internet - absolutely. absolutely. I'm right there with you, dude.
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : The Filter, Windows iTunes recommender plugin powered by All Music Guide - for OS X users, try Soundflavor or beaTunes [via]
Rod Begbie : The Filter - App that works with iTunes to build up "smart" playlists from your library. Seems to be entirely metadata based (no fingerprinting), and limited to your existing library. Giving it a spin now. [via] #
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27 month ago
43folders : 43 Folders - ThisNext - Cool-looking site for comparing all manner of products (including geeky websites). Looks promising.
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31 month ago
jimray : Better Than We Know Ourselves: Pitchfork Feature - Pitchfork looks at automated music recommendation
Andy Baio : Pitchfork's long profile of current and future music recommenders - [via]
Rod Begbie : Better Than We Know Ourselves: Pitchfork Feature - Article covering the myriad of music discovery and recommendation engines out there. "Echo Nest" sounds interesting (and they're local). #
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35 month ago
philgyford : Intense / complex classical music | Ask MetaFilter - Handy recommendations from Arvo Part to, er, the 'Conan the Barbarian' soundtrack. (via ChrisDodo)
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35 month ago
plasticbag : "Apple has been criticised over a new version of its iTunes program that can keep track of a user's listening habits." - So whatever the rights and wrongs of the whole situation, it's pretty clear that the PR effect has been far from positive. Apple, look to last.fm! There's a whole world of the future hidden in that little site...
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36 month ago
Rod Begbie : ~stevenf: What - Amazon have clearly realised that there's money in the banana stand. #
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gleuschk : I'm writing this letter to recommend Perry Mills for whatever it is he wants to be recommended for. - long backstory on this, but this one letter is hysterical. Word.
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40 month ago
gleuschk : What do you wish you'd known/done when you were 21? | Ask MetaFilter - Avoid debt. Experiment. Floss. And other wisdom, really astoundingly good.
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40 month ago
plasticbag : How Much Does iTunes Like My Five-Star Songs? - Exploring the algorithm that choose songs in the Party Shuffle mode...
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40 month ago
Rod Begbie : Pandora - The Music Genome Project launch their little music player app. Not sure yet if I like it, but its recommendations certainly are interesting -- based upon musical elements, rather than your usual "People who listened to Super Furry Animals also listened t [via] #
Andy Baio : Pandora Music Engine comes out of private beta - streaming music recommendation service
plasticbag : I can't quite believe I didn't recommend this at the time: Pandora Music Recommendations engine - I'm talking to a lot of people at the moment who think that one way or navigating data is going to win over another. But it's ludicrous, we need all the dimensions we can get and user-generated sits perfectly well alongside and/or on top of top-down or ex
Jeremy Zawodny : Pandora - Pandora: To help you discover new music you'll love.
Philippe Janvier : Pandora - "...a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love." My radio tonight : Miles Davis of course ! [via] #
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40 month ago
gleuschk : How do I improve my blowjob technique? | Ask MetaFilter - threads like this are why I love MetaFilter. Can you imagine this anywhere else on the web?
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40 month ago
gleuschk : links for 2005-08-24 | A Whole Lotta Nothing - hah -- Reed comes in high on the list on both of Matt's links
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : TechCrunch reviews Pandora - new music recommendation engine for custom streaming radio
deusx : TechCrunch - Dig into the Music Long Tail - Pandora - "What is it? It is a music recommendation engine and player and it is the future of discovering the long tail of music."
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40 month ago
jimray : del.icio.us: people who like recommendations also like... - Recommendations come to del.icio.us. Hooray! The next step, of course, is for the system to automatically figure out other people I should add to my inbox.
Andy Baio : Del.icio.us adds recommendations - and, just as important, they added full search
gleuschk : del.icio.us: people who like recommendations also like... - del.icio.us adds recommendations. great!
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41 month ago
plasticbag : The Madonna Code - Searching for the perfect music recommendation system (including an awesome one that correlates music with cultural traits) - "Thus, we can see that a high-energy vocal style correlates with the presence of dairy in a society's diet; a high degree of rhythmic blending between vocalists signals a high degree of social solidarity;"
cobra libre : alan lomax's global jukebox - and the savage beast [via] #
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plasticbag : Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music from Community Metadata (pdf) - This is nice - a paper on using particular parts of speech from web pages about artists to create a metric of artist similarity. Think about the stuf you could use delicious tags to do!
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Andy Baio : Mobster, recommendation addon for iTunes - uses the Musicmobs community to recommend music
plasticbag : Mobster is a companion application for iTunes that allows you to create playlists based on personalized music recommendations. - Yeah I'm not convinced by musicmobs as a way of operating with the world. I'm sure it comes up with good recommendations, but the manual upload of your iTunes XML seems a little random to me.
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