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Presenting personal recommendations

Generating personal recommendations is one thing, presenting them to the user in a way that they find them useful is something else. Here are our plans for folksemantic.com:

Personal recommendations page – For each user, provide a personal recommendations page. Visually separate recommendations that they have already clicked on.
Personal recommendations tool – Include a personal recommendations [...]

A personal recommendation algorithm

We’re in the process of building out personal recommendations for folksemantic.com. The basis for the recommendations is user attention metadata. The data we use includes:

Identity feeds – RSS feeds that users register that represent their interests. For example, their blog or their delicious account.
Clicks – The articles that the user clicks on.
Shares – The articles [...]