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Your preferences are portable (sort of) with Matchmine

We last covered Matchmine in September 2007, noting that the product, a preferences and recommendation engine, was on to something very interesting. They were just going about it the wrong way. I'm glad to report that company has seen the error of its ways and, while keeping true to its mission, now has a product that makes sense.

To recap: Matchmine will tell you what media you will like (it covers blogs, music, video, and movies) based on what you tell it you already like. It's the same idea that you see every day in Netflix, except the … Read more

The Portable Personalization Project: Matchmine

We gave Matchmine a small writeup from the DemoFall conference yesterday, but I wanted to dive into the concept here a little more. What Matchmine is trying to do is create a universal preferences system. The pitch is that instead of rating the movies and music and blogs you like on each site you go to that has ratings, you rate your preferences once, and then any future sites you go to can grab those prefs immediately to serve you recommendations that will be good for you.

The recommendations are created independently of any site's users, and thus can'… Read more