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Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital

At Jiva we’ve just kicked off a new blog over at blog.scrump.com with a post about Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital.

Recently I have been thinking about how we can apply the techniques of collaborative filtering to people search and recommendation. Indeed we have built Beanbag Learning as a research testbed to allow us to explore possible approaches in this space. There are a number of threads which are starting to come

processing.js

John Resig of jQuery fame has just released a JavaScript port of Processing. Wow. I rather like the molten bar chart. This offers fantastic scope for some lovely information graphics; dynamic sparklines perhaps?