Comments on: Words Matter http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/392 Interaction Design, User Experience, and the World at Large Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Justin Donaldson http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/392/comment-page-1#comment-477 Justin Donaldson Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:00:33 +0000 http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/392#comment-477 Hey Josh, cool post and graphics. I second your issue with "mental models" and "rating schemes". I'd probably say that no rating scheme is perfect, but most are better than nothing. MyStrands has a rating feature that you can use on the website, but the ratings aren't an integral part of the recommendation process. Rather than harvesting tenuous "like/dislike" rating data, we harvest playlist based association data. I'd be interested in hearing what you think about the strengths/weaknesses of both approaches... be brutal... well maybe not too brutal :) Hey Josh, cool post and graphics. I second your issue with “mental models” and “rating schemes”. I’d probably say that no rating scheme is perfect, but most are better than nothing. MyStrands has a rating feature that you can use on the website, but the ratings aren’t an integral part of the recommendation process.

Rather than harvesting tenuous “like/dislike” rating data, we harvest playlist based association data. I’d be interested in hearing what you think about the strengths/weaknesses of both approaches… be brutal… well maybe not too brutal :)

]]> By: Jason Yip http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/392/comment-page-1#comment-470 Jason Yip Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:17:02 +0000 http://josh.ev9.org/weblog/archives/392#comment-470 LaunchCast (http://launch.yahoo.com) was the first of these I've ever tried though I tend to use Pandora now given the embedded player in Yahoo Messenger isn't working and was somewhat unstable. A cool, relatively recent feature of Pandora is the "I'm tired of this song" so don't play it for a month action. Sometimes, I like the song but I just don't care to hear it for the next while. LaunchCast (http://launch.yahoo.com) was the first of these I’ve ever tried though I tend to use Pandora now given the embedded player in Yahoo Messenger isn’t working and was somewhat unstable.

A cool, relatively recent feature of Pandora is the “I’m tired of this song” so don’t play it for a month action. Sometimes, I like the song but I just don’t care to hear it for the next while.

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