What happens when you listen to music on Spotify or watch shows on Netflix on your communal devices in the home? How much should the recommendations adapt to everyone in the room?
- Attempts from research in solving the group recommendation problem.
- How companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon handle group recommendations today — or don’t.
- A path forward for group recommendation services through shared norms in the home or device — rather than a focus on a person.
- Privacy implications of group recommendation services.
Finally, I ask the question of what makes group recommendations so hard and why do we so often get it wrong?
As we put more and more of ourselves online we will struggle to use identities that make sense to us. This is because companies aren’t building for the way we use identities in real life relationships as applied to the metaverse.
In this article you will find:
- Discussion of what identity really means today online.
- Why anonymity and pseudo-anonymous identities are important.
- Key principles to build identity platforms into your products and services.
- Identity lifecycles to embrace in your platform.
Check out this latest from me published on the O’Reilly Media’s Radar blog about what I think we need to do to fix this: