Comments on: InSuggest: a no-nonsense approach to site recommendations http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/13/insuggest-a-no-nonsense-approach-to-site-recommendations/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:22:25 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Boynton http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/13/insuggest-a-no-nonsense-approach-to-site-recommendations/#comment-363953 Bob Boynton Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:44:44 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=1354#comment-363953 The aesthetics are terrific unless you want to see what you are getting. Burnt orange on black is lovely -- just illegible. Getting printing in their boxes requires setting your browser to whatever dimensions they used as that does not seem to work for 1280x1024 nor 1680x1050. I saw this website reviewed a couple of days ago. I tried it and it could not find my del.icio.us user name. But I tried it today and I am found. I have a del.icio.us account that is very heavy on web 2.0 software/services. inSuggests suggestions were plausible though the one from South Africa seemed a bit odd. I also have a del.icio.us account about politics -- which is how I make my living -- and that seemed beyond their recommendation machine. To try more specific suggestions I clicked on the tag webcampaign2008. The recommendations were: Technorati:Home, MediaPost Publications - Cond??Net Strik, Gmail - Postvak IN, Lifehacker, and Google Reader. OK webcampaign2008 is an abstaction so I tried something concrete: Ron Paul. It had no recommendations for Ron Paul. If you search YouTube for Ron Paul you find 126,000 clips. If you search news blogs Ron Paul is equally 'present.' This may be unfair. They are a Swedish website and I was asking about US politics. On the other hand this suggests that they have not gotten very far in processing the trillions of entries on the web. This is a very neat idea. But they seem to have a long way to go. Perhaps they and you can tell us when they have made significant progress. The aesthetics are terrific unless you want to see what you are getting. Burnt orange on black is lovely — just illegible. Getting printing in their boxes requires setting your browser to whatever dimensions they used as that does not seem to work for 1280×1024 nor 1680×1050.

I saw this website reviewed a couple of days ago. I tried it and it could not find my del.icio.us user name. But I tried it today and I am found.

I have a del.icio.us account that is very heavy on web 2.0 software/services. inSuggests suggestions were plausible though the one from South Africa seemed a bit odd.

I also have a del.icio.us account about politics — which is how I make my living — and that seemed beyond their recommendation machine. To try more specific suggestions I clicked on the tag webcampaign2008. The recommendations were: Technorati:Home, MediaPost Publications – Cond??Net Strik, Gmail – Postvak IN, Lifehacker, and Google Reader. OK webcampaign2008 is an abstaction so I tried something concrete: Ron Paul. It had no recommendations for Ron Paul. If you search YouTube for Ron Paul you find 126,000 clips. If you search news blogs Ron Paul is equally ‘present.’

This may be unfair. They are a Swedish website and I was asking about US politics.

On the other hand this suggests that they have not gotten very far in processing the trillions of entries on the web.

This is a very neat idea. But they seem to have a long way to go. Perhaps they and you can tell us when they have made significant progress.

]]> By: Arno Manders http://thenextweb.com/2008/06/13/insuggest-a-no-nonsense-approach-to-site-recommendations/#comment-363952 Arno Manders Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:34:09 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=1354#comment-363952 Very nice service they have good suggestions. The only minus point is the way they display the title of the suggested link. On my resolution (1280x1024) a lot of titles are cut of and it is hard to say if they are useful for me. Very nice service they have good suggestions. The only minus point is the way they display the title of the suggested link. On my resolution (1280×1024) a lot of titles are cut of and it is hard to say if they are useful for me.

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