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Title:

Discovery: The Future of Friend Search

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Organizer:
ian nieves, dyscotheque, inc.
Description:
Search is great when you know what you are looking for, and the results are easily digitizable. Plane tickets, product information, software documentation, etc... But search does not apply well to finding people: 1) You do not always know exactly who you are looking for 2) People are not easily digitizable This is where "discovery" comes in. Discovery allows people to find things (including other people) with minimal hands-on effort, and minimal up-front knowledge of what they are actually looking for. The results are automatically tailored to the interests of the person who is looking. At this panel, I will present how Dyscotheque has implemented a unique discovery algorithm to drive its dyscovery engine called dysco.dj
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  1. What is search, and by contrast, what is discovery?
  2. What can you find with a discovery engine that you cannot find with a search engine?
  3. How does discovery work, technically?
  4. How does discovery work, conceptually?
  5. How can machines make intelligent guesses about you?
  6. How can machines make intelligent guesses about you and someone else?
  7. How does discovery aid in community development?
  8. How does discovery aid in business development?
  9. Why has no one done this before?
  10. The Future of the Web; Distributed Vs. Centralized Semantics
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
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