Digg to Launch Recommendation Engine (Video)
The social media world has been buzzing the past 24 hours about Digg’s plans for launching their much needed recommendation engine this week. The engine will be launched in limited beta mode and will only be seen (at first) by a limited group of registered Digg users. The videos below explain in great detail the purpose and value of the recommendation engine, however basically Digg is looking to enhance the content discoverability through increasing the relevancy of the “upcoming” stories presented to each user. Digg will be able to do this through user behavior and will always be working to provide the most relevant and timely stories. I am a huge fan of anything that increases relevant content discovery so I applaud Digg’s efforts…and it is about time they did this!
Below are two videos, straight from Digg, explaining their plans and how the recommendation engine will work.
Digg Recommendation Engine from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.
Anton Talks About The Digg Recommendation Engine from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.
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