Comments on: Worio Taps Into Social Search With Facebook Connect

By: eric brochu | haiku factory : Worio on TechCrunch

eric brochu | haiku factory : Worio on TechCrunch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:06:47 +0000

[...] couple of days late, but I just wanted to brag that on Friday, Worio was featured on TechCrunch. We’re all very proud. I don’t have much to add, except to say if you’re curious [...]

By: Digest Combo #77,#78,#79

Digest Combo #77,#78,#79 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:50:04 +0000

[...] GE Uses Digital Hologram To Advertize Windmills Facebook Goof Cripples Controversial Homepage Poll Worio Taps Into Social Search With Facebook Connect Following The iPhone, Social Tagging App Sekai Camera Will Be Released For Android, Too LinkedIn [...]

By: pit

pit — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:26:20 +0000

funny that there seems to be no social or semantic service yet able to identify such spam. kind of a touring test for the transition between web2 and web3 ?

By: bot

bot — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:23:27 +0000

you are a quite obviously a spammer.

By: neon

neon — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:49:45 +0000

oky saolun

By: sim tv

sim tv — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:30:12 +0000

Cool site. Will be interesting to see if it catches on with people.

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By: william fischer

william fischer — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:43:41 +0000

As some of the commenters have pointed out, it’s an open question on how the data contained in one’s social graph should be weighted in a relevancy algorithm, but it’s tough to think of scenarios where one wouldn’t want to have it at all. Coupled with semantic capabilities, we think that it can be very powerful.

Bill
http://twitterjobsearch.com

By: jess

jess — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:46:46 +0000

and http://www.yocial.com too

By: Worio、Facebook Connectを使ったソーシャル検索機能を実装

Worio、Facebook Connectを使ったソーシャル検索機能を実装 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:10:17 +0000

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La Jolla Shores Rentals — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:17:18 +0000

Wario, move to The Valley if you need more funding.

By: SDawg

SDawg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:39:06 +0000

I think the idea is that from just a link or 2 posted about pinot noir, Worio would deduce that you are interested in red wine, not just a particular brand or variety. Also, you don’t need to have friends interested in everything you’re interested in, since Worio just uses your friends postings, profiles, etc. as additional data to include in its recommendation process. This influences the returned recommendations, but is in addition to data gleaned from your own profile, search topics, tagged pages, etc.

By: Ashu

Ashu — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:34 +0000

It would be good to see the direction of Social Search. Good Luck to the Worio team.

By: DJ Chang

DJ Chang — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:01:16 +0000

This is stupid.

Let’s say that an average person has 300 friends. (note, a publisher who uses Facebook to broadcast to 5,000 is not an average user). I’m interested in Pinot Noir and one of my friends happens to post a link about Pinot Noir. What are the chances of that happening? What does it matter if one or two friends prefer one brand over another? Did their link signal preference or just general sharing?

I’m also interested in thousands of other subjects. For each, my 300 friends contain expertise on each?

Ugh! Sorry to be so harsh!

By: Joe Dawson

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:45:20 +0000

What information does it pull back to the newsfeed?

By: pedalpete

pedalpete — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:52:04 +0000

I dealt with the same issue with my site as I’ve added social discovery for live music events.

Unfortunately, Worio (or http://www.HearWhere.com for that matter) can actually do anything about this.

If you are using Opera, you have to set the browser to work as FF or another browser. I forget exactly how to do this.

Contact Facebook, it’s really there issue, not Worio’s.

By: Technology news - Techvibes Blog

Technology news - Techvibes Blog — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:39:39 +0000

[...] Erick Schonfeld covered Vancouver search engine startup Worio today and he likes what he sees with their new Facebook Connect [...]

By: kclement

kclement — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:29:32 +0000

unfortunately, if you have the opera browser, the facebook connect feature is not usable (button is not visible)

Firefox seems to work though.

Please fix!

By: fb1218568

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:22:51 +0000

This looks like a really useful implementation of social search.

By: Michael Sprague

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:05:04 +0000

Yes please.

Good job Team Wario

By: pedalpete

pedalpete — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:03:35 +0000

Congrats to the Worio Team,
I’ve been using the site for the past few months, but the facebook connect was a needed move.

At first glance most people would probably just go “oh good, another search engine”, but the right hand columns of discovery recommendations is actually quite good, and I only expect it to get better.

Lots of great stuff coming out of BC these days.

By: Zeljko Anderlon

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:00:05 +0000

http://www.monitor.hr

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