Archive for May, 2007
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Taste is a great framework for collaborative filtering. We are going to be launching a new recommendation algorithm on our site (MyFriendSuggests.com) in the coming weeks (Stay Tuned!) based on the Taste framework. Taste provides a User-based and Item-based recommender. User based recommenders find users that have similiar tastes to ...
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Sunday, May 13th, 2007
I'm not much of a reader, but I just read a book Founders At Work, by Jessica Livingston. It's basically a bunch of interviews done with various people who led some of the biggest startups of the past 10-20 years. I found it to be a real interesting read especially ...
Posted in General Technology, Web Development, Website Marketing | No Comments »
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
As we've seen in my posts for scraping AOL, GMail and Yahoo, each site has its own "tricks" that make it challenging to scrape contact information from. The final site in this series of posts is for Hotmail. Hotmail is one of the trickier ones. As I did with the ...
Posted in Java, MyFriendSuggests, Scraping, Website Marketing | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
In our previous posts we've looked at how to scrape both Yahoo! and AOL webmail for a list of contacts given a username and password. This technique can be critical in growing your user base by allowing your users to invite many friends in one quick and easy step. Our ...
Posted in Java, Scraping, Website Marketing | 2 Comments »
