Socialfeed’s New Indicators
December 19, 2007
Long time no see! As I can spend only 20% of my time on this Socialfeed, unfortunately the blog always comes last.O Today, I would like to introduce 3 new indicators that we’ve added to Socialfeed to show our users what is happing inside the system.
1. Relevance
Relevance is the strength of the recommendation. This indicator shows how relevant each recommended item is to your interests as determined by Socialfeed. Socialfeed recommendations are based on the activities of a community of users with similar interests. The greater the number of people who have viewed the item and have interests similar to yours, the higher the Socialfeed relevance rating.
2. Influence
Influence shows you how much each user contributed to a particular item’s recommendation. In Socialfeed, recommendations are the result of the activities of people who are similar to you. Influence shows you whose activities are behind each recommended item and how much influence they had on the recommendation.
The orange bars are relative. You can see who has the greatest influence on each recommended item.
3. Similarity By Category
Someone with similar sports interests may not have the same preference in politics. Even if you and another person are very similar, there will likely be differences in some areas. Socialfeed’s third new indicator shows how similar you are to others, category by category. Socialfeed has 9 categories. They are Business, Tech & Science, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Politics, News, Transportation, Sports and Other. Every feed is assigned to one of these categories. When Socialfeed finds people who are similar to you and calculates the degree of similarity, it compares your activities for each category. Socialfeed then calculates the degree of similarity with each person by category.
