January 2009
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The Printed Blog - Oxymoron?
Just discovered the Printed Blog. Its a twice-daily “newspaper” comprised entirely of blog and user-generated content, with content chosen by users on a regional basis. Due to start publishing later this month. Perhaps its a generational thing but I cannot see the appeal of this at all.
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New recommendation tools coming to Digg.com?
While he concedes the company didn’t do much technology innovating in its early years, he says that’s changing. Digg hired Anton P. Kast, a former assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, to assemble a small research team. Kast et al have produced software that links people with similar interests and makes recommendations to people based on their...
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ESPN.com launches new 'personalization' tools
New ‘personalized’ version of ESPN.com was launched today (see image). The personalization is based around sports, teams, players and columnists and is accessible from every page on ESPN via a small rollover button in the top right – screenshot above shows the expanded view from which I could jump to mySports (Golf, Tennis), myTeams (Heat, Dolphins, Liverpool FC) etc etc. As a heavy user of...