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Yes,
Dellarocas's seminal paper is "THE DIGITIZATION OF WORD-OF-MOUTH"
(google it).  Dellarocas, Resnick, and Varian, are all required
reading here at umich (this semester in fact).

Also, I will be working with Resnick here @ umich this semester, and
am happy to be a resource for anyone here who wants me to ask him
anything.  Besides, the more I ask, the more I learn.

-Paul

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On 1/2/07, Robert Laubacher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In response to Barry's question about recent work on recommender systems...
>
> Chris Dellarocas at UMaryland's Smith School has done a lot in this area:
>
> http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/cdell/reputation.html
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> http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/cdell/opinionforums.html
>
> Best,
> RL
>
>
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> >Ulrich, et al.
> >
> >Hal and Paul wrote their recommender systems article a long time ago, when
> >people were more positive and less cynical about manipulation of such
> >systems.* What's the latest research?
> >
> >*Note that Hal may have been the only non-cynical economist;-)
> >
> >Valdis Krebs is right: it's easy to spoof many systems.
> >
> >The ones I have been wondering about are YouTube, where "favorites" always
> >seem to include atonal young teens: singing, or stripping or both. I may
> >be naive, but I cannot believe that "cutie costume" or "my chemical
> >romance on new year's eve"  -- both favorites at this moment -- really are
> >getting 100s, 1000s, and even tens of 1000s of votes.
> >
> >Copying to the Communication & Info Tech section of the ASA, for their
> >interest and input.
> >  Barry Wellman
> > >
> > > An easy starter, cited several hundred times since, is
> > >
> > >   Paul Resnick and Hal R. Varian
> > >   Recommender systems
> > >   Communications of the ACM 40(3):56-58, 1997
> > >   ACM Press
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > B.
> > >

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