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Anton Kast Talks About the Digg Recommendation Engine watch!

vimeo.com — The Recommendation Engine is a cool way to discover new content on Digg. To understand more about how it works, you should check out our interview with Digg’s Wicked Smart Lead Scientist, Anton Kast.

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  • intilli4, on 07/01/2008, -3/+4It is like Digg is creating a Real Time search engine for your interests that could be smarter than Google.
    • theantirobot, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1It's very exciting to see how the growing community can enable more advanced features.

      Once this gets going I hope they enable communities. The digg front page might not be compelling to many people, but a digg front page comprised of recommendations to members of a community could potentially be made compelling to anyone.

      Imagine something like ning, but for social news.

      It's all very exciting. I want to work for digg... or become diggs biggest competitor.

      In the end we'll all be using one social news service with many faces. Why not make it a government service at that point and have our government earn money from advertising??? Diggnation??? maybe this is Kevins plan all along. It's always been mine. An online community working to dominate political process already in place.

      An online nation - the Unified Community
    • theantirobot, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1When a search engine can find you things you didn't know you were looking for... magic
  • SundayBrunch, on 07/01/2008, -16/+2us libertarians on digg finally stand a chance against this onslought of liberal homosexuals. Viva libertarione!
    If you're a libertarian friend me.
  • manfmnantucket, on 07/01/2008, -5/+9Whoa I can't believe Digg actually employs someone with a bit of grey - bravo!!
  • dOOBiEx213, on 07/01/2008, -3/+3~_~
  • derble, on 07/01/2008, -2/+14He kinda looks like Billy Bob Thornton's thinner brother.
    • rugabug, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5I'm glad to see I'm not alone in thinking this.
    • vade79, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Reminds me a bit of Slingblade too.
  • fLUx1337, on 07/01/2008, -5/+2Cool, though I didn't like how it was totally dumbed down by Kevin....they could have used somebody who you don't know is technical in any way...
  • Ninjao, on 07/01/2008, -3/+8[Jules Winnfield]
    Check out the big brain on Anton.
    [/Jules Winnfield]
  • username7410, on 07/01/2008, -4/+0This video is turning me on so bad!!! Ah yeah!
  • fas2, on 07/01/2008, -2/+1hip hip hurray!
  • mark076h, on 07/01/2008, -6/+5Buried as dupe
  • fr3ddie, on 07/01/2008, -2/+1sounds awesome!
  • effinboy, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1The great thing here, I hope, will be that we won't see all these duplicates on the front page once the engine has launched.
  • kukiweed, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5How many stories about this thing do we need on the front page?!
  • shallwedave, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1if a band member interviewed a member of the band they were in, it would be a little weird.
    why not with IT stuff?
  • tomazkovacic, on 07/01/2008, -2/+2old video is old
  • Thrilltone, on 07/01/2008, -2/+4FTV: "we have an excellent filtering system... they shout, they IM, they email..."

    Your system sucks. The most annoying assholes determine what gets the crucial initial exposure, not because of any merit inherent in the story but because they found other assholes who agree to kiss each others asses.
    It probably results in more page views for Digg, which is why they like it but it truly is a piece of ***** system.
  • Funpolice2050, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1My correlation coefficient is OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
  • jmbunnell, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1When does this roll out? I love anything that takes Digg out of the hands of the few and hands it to the multitudes. Viva!
  • zcreem, on 07/01/2008, -5/+2digg is dying and they come up with this crap.
    We don't need more technology filter we need people filter.
    This used to be an interesting tech site, now it has become a political, video, picture, sound bite.
    My block list grows daily, soon I'll be talking to myself (as usual).
    • theantirobot, on 07/01/2008, -1/+2I think talking to yourself is exactly what this feature is meant to enable... if yourself lives in many bodies. Hive mind?
    • rishqo, on 07/01/2008, -1/+1So why you don`t get rid yourself of digg then???
  • theantirobot, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Memes spread more and more quickly. Ideas come to life. The truest ideas will prosper. Welcome superhuman intelligence. You probably won't even know it's here. Like a worm hears a symphony.
    • theantirobot, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1What will it take? When will we raise our collective voices and cry out with one?
  • lies03, on 07/01/2008, -0/+0I thought the robot was going to shock the guy alive, when the person was on the floor. Forget EMT's
  • ro2ert, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0Tell me what I like in real time, I may like it for real this time.

    Then I'll really see if what you tell me I like is like what I like, or a real waste of time.

  • pjpark, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1I wish they would put it on a separate tab so it would be easier to ignore. The novelty of seeing recommendations for things that I couldn't care less about has warn off. #1 recommendation: "What's Inside: 'Just for Men' Hair Color" (ha ha, ok now go away.)
  • antiver, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2... Lead Scientist?
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