inSuggest - Personal recommendations

inSuggest - Personal recommendations. This is very nice. There are two options, both of which work in the same way; web pages and Flickr images. I'm rather more interested in the Web side of things, so that's what I'll look at. You type in a URL of a site that you like to start with (basic URL seems to work best, it gets a bit confused if you go deep into a site). This then sits in a 'stack' at the top of the page.  It then produces a list of other pages that are matched to that one in the form of thumbnails produced by thumbshort.org. Next you skip through a few, and when you find another that takes your fancy you click and drag it onto the stack (sounds like a card game!) and the search is refocused with more offerings.

You can do this a total of 4 times to get some very precise matching. My main complaint is that sometimes you're shown pages that you can't actually get to because they're forbidden, which is irritating.  However, I liked the look and feel of this, and it would be very useful if you're stuck for sites to use. Quick and intuitive - give it a go!

Comments

[Roger Fairman]

Hi Phil,

I've just tried this out and have a sneeking feeling that it is feeding my own Del.icio.us and/or Furl data back to me.

Starting with the "Worcester Re-enactors" site it fed me back a series of sites on re-enacting and the Battle of Worcester - so far so good.

The tags on the sites it displayed looked familiar, but probably aren't unique to me, However it included in the mix a Talis site for voting on customer enhancement requests with the tag ILS ie "Information and Learning Services" my departrment. I can't see any other connection between Reenacting & Talis apart from me!

Any Thoughts