Bambi Francisco, CEO of Vator.tv, speaks to the topic of ‘discovery’ at an early morning Stanford Summit session. The assembled panel agreed that discovery – of media content that matches the tastes of users – was not just about algorithms: indeed there are dozens or hundreds of algorithms in the public domain, dating back to MIT’s FireFly of 15 years ago. Many music and video matching sites run dozens or hundreds of algorithms trying to find best matches. Discovery requires algorithms, a user base that provides the input and a compelling social interaction interface that knits it all together…
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Curious how concepts like ‘discovery’ get narrowed when a big enough industry shorthands a fuller description.
Limiting ‘discovery’ to tastes of users for software files seems shallow compared to demands for better designs for handsets and comfortable computing generally.
Algorithms can be developed or may be attempted to be developed for just about anything, given developers’ ambitions and fundings. Every computer user should be the biggest customer target group. And what could be more ‘knitted’ that putting hands on the machine?