What exactly do people get out of all these news aggregators? I'd imagine the front page of reddit or at least alocalised version is more interesting than a personilised version.
When does it go from news to infotainment?
And if thats not the case why would someone think something beyond simple facebook like or twitter comment extractions is a big deal? I've seen lots of papers where representing a web page and a user in a vector space based on TFIDF performs well.
I've even see Yahoo research post slides about using some form of random bucket for news recommendation because the novelty of newer / stranger articles improves ad click throughs.
Then again did this article come out the same time as the PR release about funding for their company? If thats the case is this just a wide scale PR initiative?
When does it go from news to infotainment?
And if thats not the case why would someone think something beyond simple facebook like or twitter comment extractions is a big deal? I've seen lots of papers where representing a web page and a user in a vector space based on TFIDF performs well.
I've even see Yahoo research post slides about using some form of random bucket for news recommendation because the novelty of newer / stranger articles improves ad click throughs.
Then again did this article come out the same time as the PR release about funding for their company? If thats the case is this just a wide scale PR initiative?