this whoisi feature is brought to you by joe shaw

by Christopher Blizzard

My good friend Joe did some coding for whoisi a few weeks ago and I finally got around to merging it into the production code base. He’s added a really handy little feature: recommendations.



If you’re following a few people on the site and you’re looking for other people who might be related to them, the recommendation feature tries to make a guess based on other followers of the same people. In order to get the best out of the feature you need to be following people that have been on the site for a while and might be followed by other people. It uses other people’s following habits as the basis for recommendations so in this sense it’s pretty similar to the way that Netflix’s recommendation system works. (Although I’m sure the actual algorithm is very different.)

It should be fun – try it out and thank Joe if you see him!