Location : Cleveland, OH
Jeff Widman was one of the more interesting people I met at Lotusphere 2009 as he is not usually seen in Lotus circles and writes for a different audience than the "Yellow Bubble." It was refreshing to get a different perspective on Lotusphere, Lotus software, and the Lotusphere announcements. After absorbing what he saw in the Innovations Lab (I keep telling you people that Lab is extremely interesting), Jeff writes:
Automatic “Friend Suggestions” shift the connector role from people to software. These suggestion algorithms can use all sorts of data, from mutual friends to similar content (if we both tweet the same thing) to match relevant people. If you have the data, there’s a million ways to slice it. But every attempt I’ve seen seems mediocre at best.
While touring IBM’s Innovation lab at Lotusphere last week, I was surprised to see IBM is also tackling this problem with their “Social Networks & Discovery” project (SaND for short). And it looked FAR better than anything I’ve seen previously.
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Comment posted by Jeff Widman01/31/2009 01:04:02 AM
Homepage: http://www.jeffwidman.com/blog/
Thanks for the link love. I'm moving on from TechCrunch--my internship ended today--but will continue to write about enterprise topics on another site... details not public yet.
Also, you might enjoy my writing on my personal blog--zero news, but more thoughtful pieces...
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