The Long Tail: Why Social Software Makes for Poor Recommendations - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Mar 11
  

  Marian Paroo

  socialsoftware

• 19 Mar 08
  

  Bob Robertson-Boyd

  social software

• 30 Oct 06
  

  jeevs sinclair

  blog folksonomy social software tags

• 08 Aug 06
  

  Christopher Sessums

  article social_software

• 04 Aug 06
  

  Matt McAlister

  collaboration longtail media recommendations socialnetworking

• 31 Jul 06
  

  Kevin Wen

  media socialsoftware

• 21 Jul 06
  

  Marian Douglas-Ungaro

  software soso

• 24 Jul 05
  

  BB Barren

  whether social software networks, such as Friendster, would prove to be a good source of recommendations to filter the Tail. At first blush it makes sense that they would. After all, whose recommendations would you trust more than those of your friends?

  friendster socialnetworking longtail

• 19 Jul 05
  

  johnfromberkeley

  socialsoftware

• 23 Jun 05
  

  Jeremy Wagstaff

  tags socialsoftware longtail

• 14 Feb 05
  

  Seb Paquet

  any service that tries to condense all of your different planes of influence into a single dimension is going to fail, at least as far as useful recommendations go.

  filtering reputation strangers

• 08 Feb 05
  

  namina

  social software

• 07 Feb 05
  

  socialsoftware contenttail

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  Thomas Vander Wal

  This is right in-line with my Granular Social Networks

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• 03 Feb 05
  

  perfectlyGoodInk

  blogPosts longTail

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  Matt McAlister on 2006-08-04
  The sad reality is that most of my friends have rotten taste in music (I don't hold it against them), while the music recommendations I actually follow are mostly from people I've never met, be they Rhapsody editors or MP3 blogs. Same for virtually every

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