Monday, November 13, 2006
CityJoints, Web2.0, and Web3.0
I stumbled across this interesting article in the NY Times yesterday and got to thinking how CityJoints fits into this picture. We're already doing a lot of the Web2.0 stuff--mashups with google maps, integration with a few search APIs to suggest restaurant address details after you input a restaurant name--but we're also trying to bring you something beyond this.
Markoff cites as a typical Web3.0 question: "'I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.'" Basically, the input here is bunch of information about what a particular user is looking for in addition to some personal information particular to his situation that's going to affect what kind of results he wants to see.
At CityJoints, the whole idea behind our prediction algorithm is to take into account the specifics of your personal tastes to refine your search results. You may be looking for a new Italian BYOB joint to try, but your tastes typically differ from those of the masses. So sorting a list of Italian BYOB joints by highest average rating is not going to help you.
Our algorithm takes into account every restaurant that you've rated, and uses data from every other user on the site about every restaurant each of them has rated to generate personalized predictions for you.
So while our maps and tagging is cool and probably familiar to you, take another look at your recommendations page and see what's suggested. We think you'll like it.
Markoff cites as a typical Web3.0 question: "'I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.'" Basically, the input here is bunch of information about what a particular user is looking for in addition to some personal information particular to his situation that's going to affect what kind of results he wants to see.
At CityJoints, the whole idea behind our prediction algorithm is to take into account the specifics of your personal tastes to refine your search results. You may be looking for a new Italian BYOB joint to try, but your tastes typically differ from those of the masses. So sorting a list of Italian BYOB joints by highest average rating is not going to help you.
Our algorithm takes into account every restaurant that you've rated, and uses data from every other user on the site about every restaurant each of them has rated to generate personalized predictions for you.
So while our maps and tagging is cool and probably familiar to you, take another look at your recommendations page and see what's suggested. We think you'll like it.
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