Cory also points to a new Technorati hack that lets you see what Amazon products are being discussed the most online today…
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/products.html
This is an interesting way to take the pulse of the online community–what are people thinking about right now?

Echocloud was a pretty cool sesrvice that crawled soulseek and gnutella p2p networks when they were bigtime and then used that data to provide a music recommendation service (”if you like this, you’ll also like that”). It’s still worth taking a look at to be encouraged that collaborative filtering can be done by someone other […]

dodgeball.com’s scout service allows you to tell anyone within 10 blocks what is going on where you are. It’s a kind of bluejacking that has a centralized architecture and a wider range.

Apologies if this is a repost, but we were talking about it in the tech breakout tonight…. Great paper from Orkut & co at Google Labs analyzing the social network data from Club Nexus…
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_6/adamic/
Turns out that PoliSci & IR majors are viewed as the most attractive, and CS majors are viewed as the most […]

An insightful interview with the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat. Among other things he cites the fact that there is too much information for mere humans to process on their own; with Google News, the users are responsible for what they get as content; and that “I think we’re helping the cause of democracy”. […]

The Egobot takes a question and Googles for the answer. In much the same way Googlism always returns a string beginning with “[search term] is…”, the Egobot answers your questions in a surprisingly lifelike manner.
Something like this, combined with voice recognition, could be a great thing to have in a kiosk (”ISIS screen, where is […]

At a talk this morning about “customer relationship management”, the emphasis was on feeding relevant information to people who need it. That of course got me thinking about events@stanford, but also for the first time about groups@stanford and the opportunity to feed relevant information there.
We have a unique opportunity within the community of Stanford to […]

I haven’t had a chance to read this very long article yet: (The Augmented Social Network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet.
) but it looks like it touches on a lot of interesting points about affinity systems, and how to develop social technology, which is really what we’re trying to do with ISIS. […]

Might the right kind of ISIS screen turn our campus into a giant Flocksmart gathering? Talk about a smart mob!

Just a few links:
Pro-personalization:
What’s On When: Global Events, drill-down by region
Log on by laughing: Forget Bluetooth!
Anti-personalization:
USA Today on the boredom of getting what you expected
Banana Slug: A Google-powered service that adds random words to your query to give you something you didn’t quite expect; the anti-Google.