2009 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker
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Discovery: The Future of Friend Search
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- Level:
- Beginner
- Type:
- Solo
- Category:
- Community / Social Networks
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- 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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