Archive for November, 2008

26 November 2008

Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital

We’ve just kicked off a new blog over at blog.scrump.com with a post about Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital.

Recently I have been thinking about how we can apply the techniques of collaborative filtering to people search and recommendation. Indeed we have built Beanbag Learning as a research testbed to allow us to explore possible approaches [...]

24 November 2008

Bettr to give..

At Jiva we all get the advantage of having 10% time to explore projects a little off the beaten track from our day-to-day work.  As I’m not a developer this presented a bit of a challenge for me initially but after a brief rant on my personal blog that struck a chord with a couple [...]

3 November 2008

Is modern society making us less creative?

We had one of those get together and bond sessions here at Planet Jiva the other day. Except, rather than shoot each other with paint in a rainy wood, we sat in a nice, dry office whilst each of us talked about things that we were interested in. With topics ranging from graffiti to musical [...]