[Sigia-l] OT: Library Thing

[Timothy Boyd]

I've always thought there are loads of cool things you could do along
these lines, even just with your grocery purchases.

For example:

"You purchased X calories for Y dollars. Here are recipes for Z meals,
for A amount of people, at B number of servings with C ingredients, D
calories per serving. By the way, E wine would go great with F and G
meals, purchase it now."

Many opportunities to learn more about what I'm buying, what I think
about it, and how I can use it. And, if I chose to, I could share this
information with the companies who sell the stuff, so they can get
better at selling me more stuff.

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Tim Boyd
dyobmit at gmail.com
http://www.dyobmit.com

On 9/27/05, Andrew Boyd <andrew at friendlymanual.com> wrote:

> Now that you mention amazon, what interests me in this thread is
> anything that comes close to autocategorising and autoindexing (using
> "auto" in the "autoerotic" sense) - the potential for accessing this
> body of information and making money out of it with amazon referrals et
> al. is mind-boggling. "You own books by these 200 authors? here is the
> list of what they have also written, and here are other books on
> mountaineering and goat wrestling based on our assessment of your profile".
>
> Best regards, Andrew
>
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