Messenger Taps Social Nets
Kimberly Patch,
Technology Research News,
Aug 20, 2004
This is being protrayed as an enterprise story but the technique could - and should - be applied to personal learning. Basically, the idea is that you belong to a social network, and can contact the members by instant messenger. If you send a question to your network, the system examines the profiles of the members and sends it to the person most likely to have the answer. "Besides letting a user input his expertise and interests manually, SWIM can automatically mine a user's homepage and browser bookmarks to construct a keyword vector to represent the user's information identity." Via elearningpost.
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