Pandora(www.pandora.com) and Last.fm(www.last.fm) are systems that suggest music for the style you choose to listen, which i find to work quite well, and just as pandora or last.fm are a suggestion system for music, why not have also one for art?
So the idea is having a system where user picks an art style, seems some painting, identifies some he like's and don't likes, the system learns with this feedback, collects all users feedbacks, and later identifies patterns, building a the suggestion system.
What is this good for?
Well, at first maybe a simple screen saver, or a desktop background image, changing every day... could be a possible application for it.
But taking the idea a bit further it could potentially be used to sell art, suggesting art to potential buyers. Like a site where each user has a personal profile, and as new paintings for sale come up, if the painting has close affinity to the user style than he gets a suggestion about the painting.
Ebay suggesting system:
Knowing the items you looked at, and bought, a system like this could also suggest you new interesting items related to your style of interests. Where for example, a user would receive a week summary of new items that could be interesting for him.
What is this stuff?
It's kinda collective intelligence, isn't it ? Something that is just begging to be used full on, with the internet, all these millions of people, searching, buying stuff, working, discussing, playing, reading, etc... Would be nice to be able to pull patterns from all of this and use them for suggestions systems.
Maybe google has the edge for this? check the: google big brother.
1 comment:
Long time since your last post, I need more.
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