Digg – founder Kevin Rose talks about digg’s recommendation engine and how to improve the user’s engagement in digg and other social media sites like reddit. Some interesting insights. The recommendation engine is written in Python and not PHP. Maybe they were inspired by this book: Programming Collective Intelligence?

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