Session from Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, April 3, 2009
Finding Influence: Design Patterns for Smarter Crowds
Who’s important and how do I know? Who has the scoop and how will I find out? In any of your network of connections, some people are more interesting to you than others. Influence is about applying that understanding at large scale to the content people share and knowing who’s interesting.
http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/7796
Finding & Analyzing Influence (Gregor Hochmuth) - Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco -
1. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco April 3, 2009 INFLUENCE Gregor Hochmuth dotgrex.com / @grex Finding and applying
2. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco April 3, 2009 Gregor Hochmuth dotgrex.com * This is not a Google presentation. This is independent pondering prior to my current work at Google.
3. We need new models for understanding what’s interesting
4. We need new models for understanding what’s interesting (right now)
5. While some have been busy building “recommender systems” for the last 20 years …
6. … others just brought our best recommender system online: