This post started with the wrong premise, that Facebook wasn’t providing enough stats to page administrators. Last night I received a mail from Facebook that outlined some brief stats from a page that I administer. It looked like this. At first I thought, nice thanks. Then I thought that what I was really missing were [...]
To fill my quota of social media posts for the year, here’s a post about Facebook’s user base and real-world statistics. I was inspired by a post in a Finnish blog on social media about how the Facebook’s penetration rate in certain Finnish age groups is way over 100%. From its comments, I found that [...]
I get a lot of Twitter-followers, based on keywords like, eh, ‘Screenplay’ and ‘Consulting,’ and it annoying to say the least. Why? Because I don’t believe in mass-networking and I will explain why in the rest of this post (there are other reasons, this was just the trigger). Over the years, I’ve accumulated a lot [...]
Previously Vincent wrote about collaborative filtering here on Tech It Easy and made a really good business case on the topic of user-generated content (UGC) versus Expert input. Here, I’ll go a bit more deep into the ways collaborative filtering is done and what are the challenges. For simplicity, I have divided the ways to [...]
For those that don’t know, collaborative filtering is a method of making suggestions for other products, based on your previous shopping habits. It is used by sites/web-apps, like Netflix, Pandora Radio, and Amazon, and, I think, Ulik, and mostly based on user-generated content. Just working it out logically, you could say several things about user-generated [...]
