Can anyone venture a guess as to how MOG makes recommendations? It seems to me they are pulled out of thin air. They appear to be nothing more than a list of recently played tracks by some random MOG users.
Case in point: the #1 recommendation for me was some user with 9 crappy Matchbox Twenty tracks. Nothing in my MOG playback history comes anywhere close to Matchbox Twenty.
So, how are the recommendations supposed to work? I'll cut MOG some slack as this is a new feature and it can only get better (I hope).
Posted on 02/24/2007
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My Trusted MOGs
I think the mog brain picks the person by somehow comparing the music you have in your libraries. But then the songs that it shows are just the ones the person last played, not necessarily what they think you will like.
My Trusted MOGs
I think you're right. There is a good deal of potential at MOG for a working recommendation method. This just isn't it.
My Trusted MOGs
Hi there. Just giving you some insight into how we are doing recommendations. First of all, MOG will never give you direct recommendations by trying to calculate music that we think you will like - we do not believe in those types of computerized "recommendation engines". The recommendations on our Recommendations page are coming from other moggers based on what they are listening to.
You can use the settings in the left sidebar to select what recommendations to display and also who you want them to come from. If you are viewing recommendations from "Featured MOGs" then you are seeing what some of the most popular moggers are listening to. If you are viewing recommendations from "My Trusted MOGs" then you are seeing what your own Trusted MOGs are listening to. If you are viewing recommendations from "The Magic Button" then you are seeing the top songs/albums from the moggers who most closely match you based on similarity of your collections and what you have been listening to.
My Trusted MOGs
some data for you icamp.
if you click on the magic button, you and mogger screename aicvisa have a hell of a lot in common!
there are 744 similarities between your collections. you two have similar tastes. what can i say? if you want more specifics, mogmail me your email address and i'll send you the full low down.
there are no magic bullets to recommendations, but i don't believe it gets much better than this.
make sure to check out his top songs this week through the recommendaitons link. more insightful perhaps that last songs played.
My Trusted MOGs
Thanks for the comments guys.
Good points -and I see where the system is coming from but it's still essentially the same thing as browsing other users MOG's. It's browsing with a purpose, of course, but the presentation of the Recommendations just feels like surfing MOG users. Almost as if MOG is trying so hard not to be Last.FM that it's avoiding giving the Recommendations any real depth or character.
I'm certainly thankful for the improvements, don't get me wrong. Just throwing out a critique or two.
My Trusted MOGs
"Almost as if MOG is trying so hard not to be Last.FM that it’s avoiding giving the Recommendations any real depth or character."
huh? please explain in more detail. too vague for me to gain any insight.
see the post i just put up and my comments there too. explains my position on this in more detail.
last.fm i believe gives recommendations. mog does not. you'll never get "mog recommends...."
yes, browsing with a purpose. the purpose being seeing what people like you are listening to i believe works best.
peace
My Trusted MOGs
The recommendations are perfect. You're just not ready to accept the Matchbox 20 fan hiding inside you.