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dneary — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:24:41 GMT

New page: The Social News system looks at local votes (thumbs up / down) as a factor to determine important items. But unlike many think, it is not the only factor used. There are several, with diff...

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The Social News system looks at local votes (thumbs up / down) as a
factor to determine important items. But unlike many think, it is not
the only factor used. There are several, with different weighting:

* Comments the item has on maemo.org (available only for local news items)
* Diggs
* delicious bookmarks
* Links on other blogs (via Technorati)

Like account or app [[Karma]], the social news algorithm is also easy to
tweak to include other factors, so the weighting system is constantly
open for discussion.

Some relevant blog posts:
* http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/calculating_news_item_relevance/
* http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/maemo_social_news_launched/
* http://www.inventive.fi/sosiaalista-suunnittelua-maemoorg-news/ (in Finnish)
* [http://trac.midgard-project.org/browser/branches/ragnaroek/midcom/org.maemo.socialnews Source code]

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dneary: New page: The Social News system looks at local votes (thumbs up / down) as a factor to determine important items. But unlike many think, it is not the only factor used. There are several, with diff...