Mimi Yin wrote:
However, this got me thinking more about the specific situations in which sending capital N notifications might be useful and "collaborative management of mailing lists" or more generally, "group discussions via email" came up.
[...] This kind of "aggregated" prioritization is not new, it largely doesn't exist in the PIM space, but web services have had it forever. The most useful reviews float to the top in Amazon. Who are the most trusted sellers on Ebay? What are the most emailed articles on NewYorkTimes.com?
This would be a natural parcel that a researcher interested in collaborative filtering would implement, IMHO. It would be nice to see something like this move from research systems (I think Information Lens had it in 1986!!) and into everyday use. It does bring a potentially large set of headaches about gaming the ratings (spammers), so it's hard to see it ever moving past a circle of "trusted reviewers". Great for sharing within a single organization, though, even a fairly large one (e.g., university administrators and faculty, which I believe is the space that OSAF is particularly interested right now).
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