recommender systems

I've noticed some buzz around recommender systems.
Personally I'd like it if my blog was smart enough to automatically link to my own similar postings.

LibraryClips had a couple postings:
Related by RSS
Related articles

It seems that Waypath can provide its guess at related postings and related Amazon books (Waypath Related Stuff).
You can do this with plugin modules for various blogging platforms, or as a bookmarklet, or you could get an RSS feed and turn it into HTML.

I'm going to use my previous environmental scanning posting as an example.

http://www.waypath.com/query?type=url&x=0&y=0&key=http%3A//scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2005/07/environmental_s.html

You can get best match by putting &mode=best at the end

http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscilib.typepad.com%2Fscience_library_pad%2F2005%2F07%2Fenvironmental_s.html&mode=best

or most recent matches with &hours=24&mode=new

http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscilib.typepad.com%2Fscience_library_pad%2F2005%2F07%2Fenvironmental_s.html&hours=24&mode=new

I can't figure out how to do "find all posts that reference this SITE" though.

Findory also provides its own related postings guesses, on a per-site basis.

Here's a page with code to see related postings inline

http://findory.com/inline/source?source=Science%20Library%20Pad&ib=1

You can also get it as an RSS feed

http://rss.findory.com/rss/Blogs/?ras=Science%20Library%20Pad

You can embed the Yahoo Y!Q related-content search into your site.  Or you can use one of the Y!Q Firefox extensions as you browse.

The frassle environment also can provide other people's categories that are related to yours.  Via Shimon Rura's blog posting Blogs and Libraries.

Jon Udell has been doing thinking about how to find postings related to your interests: More delicious collaborative filtering.

You really should be able to have a visual navigation environment:
- find me all postings that link to this one
- find me everyone who has bookmarked / categorized this post
- find me closely related postings
- show me postings related to those postings (and so on...)
- position this posting in a web "discussion thread", if applicable (e.g. this posting refers to posting X, and is then referred to by posting Y)

Any other ways to integrate recommender systems with your website or as you browse?

previously:
2005-Feb-04  Yahoo Y!Q contextual searching