Submission + - Recommendation Engines
ReadWriteWeb writes: "Recommendation engines are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The main approaches fall into the following categories:
This article explores the recommendation engines of Amazon, Pandora and del.icio.us. Amazon.com, the leader in the space, has a very compelling personalization offering. But recent approaches to recommendation engines, like the genetics-inspired Pandora and social tagging pioneered by del.icio.us, are promising."
- Personalized recommendation — recommend things based on the individual's past behavior
- Social recommendation — recommend things based on the past behavior of similar users
- Item recommendation — recommend things based on the thing itself
- A combination of the three approaches above
This article explores the recommendation engines of Amazon, Pandora and del.icio.us. Amazon.com, the leader in the space, has a very compelling personalization offering. But recent approaches to recommendation engines, like the genetics-inspired Pandora and social tagging pioneered by del.icio.us, are promising."