9/28/05

Imagine This

by lawrence at Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Imagine you could go to your profile page and click on a link that said "Show Me Recommendations from my Trusted Network."

This would take you to a menu where you could choose from things like Books, Movies, Television, Web Sites, Bands, etc. Let's say you chose Televison.

The system would then spit out a list of highest rated Television Programs, according to those within 3 degrees of your Trusted Network, together with reviews of those programs from people that you trust. All other ratings and reviews data would be filtered out.

We're not that far from this.

And the Trusted Network functionality is what's going to allow this to happen.

2 comments:

  1. kamylienneSeptember 28, 2005 6:28 PM

    Hmm . . . sounds like it'd be interesting. I'm not sure how far out I'd go in "degrees" of "trustworthiness". I'm still a bit skeptical, but I'd like to see how this one plays out (after all, my initial thoughts of weblists weren't that favorable, and a lot of good things have come from it . . . I'd be willing to give this a shot).

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  2. lawrenceSeptember 28, 2005 6:36 PM

    Well, as long as we're all keeping an open mind, i'm happy :)

    As far as degrees away from your network and trustworthiness, you're absolutely right - if you go far enough away from your personal network, you're bound to hit Kevin Bacon at some point - rendering the system worthless.

    In a perfect world, your immediate Trusted Network will be able to crank out enough reviews across enough topics to provide trusted, high quality recommendations.

    I think for most however, at least initially, they'll have to go a degree, or two, or three out in order to have access to enough data.

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