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Safe Browsing Tool | WOT (Web of Trust) Prediction API. Outbrain - Related Link Widgets. About. Meet the Founders A Q&A with Noah and James Why did you build Percolate Noah: “We are excited about technology, brands, and content and thought there was a better, more scalable, way to help brands create the content they need for the social web.” Why content? James: “As marketers, building a brand has always been about communication. What’s changed to make Percolate relevant? Noah: “Speed and scale. While stock is still a key part of internet content, brands need to create more content, more frequently. How can a brand become a great content creator? James: “By paying attention to the world they want to be communicating with. How does Percolate help brands? James: “Percolate is helping solve the most fundamental question brands have in social: What should I talk about?

What’s next? Noah: “We are working to define the future of brand marketing: We want to be the torchbearers for the value of content as a marketing tool. On the Percolate blog. Web Services API. Kleiner-Backed Lockerz Acquires Social Sharing Platform AddToAny. Exclusive-Social commerce network Lockerz has acquired social sharing platform AddToAny. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. AddToAny, which has never raised any outside financing and is profitable, allows users to share and bookmark online content with social networks, news aggregators, email services, and instant messengers. The company was one of the first to offer a social sharing and bookmarking widget for website publishers and currently reaches 500 million unique users per month. For monetization, AddToAny sells anonymous aggregate sharing data, which is used by clients to increase the relevancy of their ads.

As wee’ve reported in the past, Lockerz revolves around the idea that influencers within a social network can become brand and content advocates and affect the behavior of their friends. Currently, 53 percent of the site’s users are college-aged; explains Savitt. For Lockerz, this is the second major acquisition in a matter of months. Yelp's Review Filter Explained. 6 Tips for Finding Great Content to Share on Twitter. In the land of Twitter, you are known by what you tweet Finding and sharing great content is the key to establishing yourself as a thought leader in the arena of social media. Here are some Twitter tips on how to find and share great content: 1. Do a Twitter search of users to identify and follow thought leaders in your niche. Once you’ve decided what field you would like to establish yourself as a leader in on Twitter, do a Twitter search of users and begin following those who are already sharing content in the space.

Listen to what they are saying and how they are saying it and follow their lead. 2. Twitter lets you set up and save searches. 3. Twitter lists are an easy way of keeping track of great curators of information, i.e., people who consistently find and share great content. 4. Creating several Google Alerts related to your field is a great way to identify and share original content. 5. 6. Your Social TV Guide | Matcha. Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents. Fanhattan. The +1 button for websites: recommend content across the web. Since we started rolling out the +1 button in March, you’ve been able to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads.

But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you’re on it. After all, how do you know you want to suggest that recipe for chocolate flan if you haven’t tried it out yet? Today, we’re releasing +1 buttons to the whole web. As a result, you might start seeing +1 appear on sites large and small across the Internet. We’ve partnered with a few sites where you’ll see +1 buttons in the near future: You'll also start to see +1 buttons on other Google properties such as Android Market, Blogger, Product Search and YouTube. +1 is as simple on the rest of the web as it is on Google search.

In the meantime, we’re continuing to roll out the +1 button for English-language searches on Google.com. If you’re a webmaster, you can get the +1 button code and learn more about implementation on our +1 webmaster site. Hunch Feed. Trust.mindswap.org/papers/toit.pdf. Www.levien.com/thesis/compact.pdf. Trust Metric. This document briefly describes the technical details of Advogato's trust metric. The basic trust metric evaluates a set of peer certificates, resulting in a set of accounts accepted.

These certificates are represented as a graph, with each account as a node, and each certificate as a directed edge. The goal of the trust metric is to accept as many valid accounts as possible, while also reducing the impact of attackers. Advogato performs certification to three different levels: Apprentice, Journeyer, and Master. The computation of the trust metric is performed relative to a "seed" of trusted accounts. The core of the trust metric is a network flow operation. The remainder of this document presents the actual trust metric in more detail, as well as an argument for the security against attackers. Mapping into graph The mapping of certificates into a graph is dependent on a parameter: the certification level l. Assignment of capacities Conversion into single source, single sink Security proof. BOOKS TOOLBOX: 50+ Sites for Book Lovers.

Lulu, a book publishing site, is in the news this week. But there are many more sites for book reviews, self-publishing and exchange. Here are more than 50 of our favorites. Disclosure: Lulu currently has an ad campaign running on Mashable. Book Reviews Amazon.com - Search from thousands of books, buy them online and read excellent reviews. Booksprice.com - Users can search and compare prices of new and old books from all major stores. Bookswellread.com - Users can share reviews of some of their favorite books with others. Titlez - Users can perform a comparative analysis of a book or group of books with other books in the market. Whatshouldireadnext.com - Users enter their favorite book and they are a recommended a new book based on analysis of the reading preferences of other registered users.

Book Communities aNobii - A great way to create book listings, interact with people and express thoughts. Booksconnect.com - A site which connects book lovers, writers and resellers. Publishing Others. CAiSE03-Recommendation_Based_Discovery_of_Dynamic_Virtual_Communities. OpenRecommender | What will you share today? Recommender system. Recommender systems or recommendation systems (sometimes replacing "system" with a synonym such as platform or engine) are a subclass of information filtering system that seek to predict the 'rating' or 'preference' that user would give to an item.[1][2] Recommender systems have become extremely common in recent years, and are applied in a variety of applications. The most popular ones are probably movies, music, news, books, research articles, search queries, social tags, and products in general.

However, there are also recommender systems for experts, jokes, restaurants, financial services, life insurance, persons (online dating), and twitter followers .[3] Overview[edit] The differences between collaborative and content-based filtering can be demonstrated by comparing two popular music recommender systems - Last.fm and Pandora Radio. Each type of system has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Recommender system is an active research area in the data mining and machine learning areas. Automated Text Analytics | Saplo. Recommendation’s Engine based on Spread Activation algorithm « Álvaro Brange’s Blog. September 7, 2010 Suggestion graph made with test application Hi, Since last year that I haven’t added any post on my blog, but I would like add new posts. This year I’ll start sharing publishing the work carried out in order to get my degree. The document is currently in spanish.

Here is the abstract: Nowadays people are reproducing the social network from your real life into a virtual space in which are represented the same social structures and relations of friendship, work, academic partners, and “love- relationships”. Read full document Regards, Álvaro Like this: Like Loading... Open Source Recommendation engine. Recommendation engine.