Recommendation Systems

Check out www.mspoke.com, these guys are doing recommendation systems based upon some machine learning techniques. Some latest acqusitions as eBay's acquisition of StumbleUpon , CBS acquisition of Last.fm and this weekend's MSNBC acquisition of Newsvine seemingly indicate that recommendation system will be a big thing (From Read/Write Web).

I have personally tried mspoke's product - www.feedhub.com which is a filter to generate personalized RSS feed, but I did not find it particularly useful. A user like me reads feeds for fun, so I do not care how many unread articles are out there. Its target should be some more serious readers who have very tight schedule. However, would these group of users trust a machine to filter information for them? Hopefully, AI would advance to the point of obtaining that trust.