Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

Webjay opens its collaborative filtering data set

Filed under: — lemire @ 12:04

Lucas has made available publicly its playlist database. I’ll claim a small contribution there: I believe I’m the one who convinced Lucas to make part of his data open. Indeed, Lucas, Sean, and I have been discussing collaboration between Webjay and inDiscover for some time. I’m very happy to see Lucas open his data set like this. I believe this will leverage the strength of the network while still protecting Lucas’ interests.

Got to this through Seb.

2 Comments »

  1. Glad to see you decloak, Daniel, and hope I didn’t wrongly leave you out of the announcement — I didn’t want to violate your privacy.

    Comment by Lucas — 30/6/2004 @ 16:49

  2. I think you did the right thing. That’s precisely what I thought you should do. Keep the stuff that can bring food to the table to yourself, but open everything else. The “keep secret when in doubt” policy is good for the military… maybe… but for the rest of us, we are better served by sharing as much as possible.

    Of course, it must be carefully crafted, but openess is a win-win.

    Comment by Daniel Lemire — 30/6/2004 @ 18:59

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