Collaborative Filtering
Google keywords: collaborative filtering, recommender systems, social filtering

A collaborative filtering dataset:
http://research.compaq.com/SRC/eachmovie/

Talk about “Relationship Features”, the kind of friends recommend events to friends ™ that we want to build in
http://tipster.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$76?mode=day

Joining Collaborative and Content Based Filtering
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~baudisch/Publications/1999-Baudisch-RecSys99-JoiningCollaborativeAndContent-basedFiltering.pdf

CD Recommendation Engine discussion
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/CD_20Recomendation_20Engine

Requests for collaborative filtering
http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg015606.html

A lab update with tons of cool stuff
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~konstan/w2002-survey.pdf

PolyLens: multi-user collaborative filtering. I’ve been looking for a paper like this for a long time and now I’ve found it!
http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/papers/pdf/poly-camera-final.pdf

Edward Tufte (and friends) take on information design on TV
http://www.edwardtufte.com/1510737742/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000SW&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e

Breaking-news Multimedia:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1824799

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Screens

coolsign. I say frickin cool. Just go to the FAQs. This is exactly what we want. I called today and soon we should set up a meeting with them.
http://www.coolsign.com/systems_root.htm

About coolsign
http://www.millenniumplus.com/article_Internet_3.htm

Ostensibly all Canadians think alike. These guys settled on a two display system, one for video, one for text, and 15 second duration video clips… sound familiar?
http://www.passeportmedia.com/aecran1.htm
http://www.passeportmedia.com/adorvalmlt1.htm
and their international partner
http://www.ferrograph.com/

An excerpt:
“Finally, content is what’s displayed on our digital sign. Depending on other system components, content can be a static image, such as a
JPEG, an animation in GIF or Flash format, or a full-motion-video MPEG. The nature, cost and management of content is the most poorly
understood element of most digital-messaging systems, yet it also represents a promising source of revenue for electronic-digital-sign
entrepreneurs.”

More screens
http://www.alivepromo.com/alvpro2.pdf

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Emerging Technologies Conference. At Santa Clara in a couple weeks. Woah. If only it was free to attend!
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon/