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Where are all the Flipboard killers?(Or how to build a personalized news app...
Calling all innovators: we’re looking for people who can imagine a legitimately new experience for personalized news and information services. Personalized news and information services have become...
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“You’re recommending what? For who??”(Or how to fix your recommendation engine)
Imagine this: I found a book in the bookstore that was almost what I was looking for. So I walked up to the store clerk for some help… “Do you have any other books like this one?” “I don’t know. Would...
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How to create personalized content feeds using your interest graph
Content and media companies are getting excited about personalization (again). Companies like Gravity are touting the benefits: content that’s targeted to individual users generates more revenue for...
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Why The “Star Trek Computer” Needs Open Data…And Scotty, Too
I love this post from Fogbeam Labs. Here’s a bit: So given that, what can we say about the eventual development of something we can call “The Star Trek Computer”? Right now, I’d say that we can say at...
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Introducing Primal Assistants: A framework for software agents
Primal does a lot of heavy lifting in knowledge representation and content filtering. If you ask it to grab you some relevant content around your interests, it will do precisely that. But what if you...
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Trixie’s Story: The Experience of Interest Networking
I was meeting with two guys, one a technologist, one a business advisor. The discussion was focused on Primal’s technology: semantic user models, knowledge representation, yada, yada… The business...
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How to Make Content Curation Awesome by Adding a Smart Machine as an Editor
“Innovation will disrupt many areas of skilled work that have so far had it easy. But if we manage them well, smart machines will free us, not enslave us.” - The Economist (May 25 2013) The moral of...
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Primal Updates: May 2013
Primal and the world of interest networking, for the month of May. Product updates, highlights from our blog, and industry news. Product Updates Custom Content Collections One of the features that...
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3 Steps to a Smart Personalized Web for Your Application
Recently, the idea of a portal is getting a reboot. But as much as the Web has advanced for human consumption, it remains a very inhospitable place for a large contingent of users, namely machines....
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An Interest Graph for Promoting Tweets: A Small Data Solution to a Big Data...
Source: iamsocial Small conversational data such as tweets or text messages are a goldmine of individual interests. Millions of people everyday tweet about their favourite food, send a Kik or BBM...
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How to Tell If Your Recommender Will Suck (Before You Spend All That Money On...
Awhile back, we started exploring how individual interest graphs, powered by Primal’s data service, can be used to improve the performance of recommendation engines. Our surprising conclusion:...
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Confessions of a Twitter Bot
Source Talking Politics Bots have a bad reputation. Whether they’re sinister botnets, carrying out coordinated attacks, or annoying spambots, polluting our digital universe with crappy auto-generated...
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An Interview with a Primal Developer on our Data API
Justin Kominar is a Senior Software Developer at Primal Recently, Justin Kominar, one of Primal’s developers was interviewed by 3scale. Primal’s uses 3scale’s product to manage access to our...
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Meet the Most Important Component in Your Solution Stack
Developers have long created software that customers use directly. But now, we’re creating solutions that incorporate internal representations of end-users and adapt to individual needs. In this post,...
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What the History of the Semantic Web Tells Us About Its Future
The Semantic Web provides an enticing vision of our online future. This next-generation Web will enable intelligent computer assistants to work autonomously on our behalf: scheduling our appointments,...
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Big data’s creative and empathetic sibling (and why they struggle to get along)
Joyce Hostyn argues that Better Human Understanding, Not Big Data, Is the Future of Business. Some excerpts (with my emphasis): Despite the best of intentions, we’re not data driven, we’re hypothesis...
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There’s a Graph for That!
According to Murthy Nukala, “any marketer who doesn’t have a graph within the next twelve months will be at a permanent competitive disadvantage.” That’s a pretty ominous warning, particularly when...
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A Visual History of The Next Big Thing (and how to see The Next One coming)
First published on Medium.com. In business, vision isn’t some mythical ability to see the future. It’s about being able to recognize a pattern and apply it to something new, before others see it...
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