Re: Web page rating service through proxy servers

From: pierre G (gpierre@cs.vu.nl)
Date: Mon Jul 26 1999 - 02:00:37 MDT


> In the EU-financed research project SELECT (see
> http://cmc.dsv.su.se/select) for more info), we are looking at ways
> of providing rating services on web pages. By rating services we do
> not mean the PICS kind of services, established to protect children
> from unsuitable web content, but collaborative filtering, where
> people store their ratings of web pages and these ratings can help
> other people find the most interesting pages on the web.

You should have a look at Pharos, which is very close from what you
want: it is made of a personal proxy able to insert/display comments
and ratings about Web pages. People can share comments that
way. Comments can also be inserted/displayed through Web pages for
people who don't have the personnal proxy. I am using it, and I find
it very convenient.

Pharos: http://webtools.dyade.fr/pharos/

A number of Pharos "canals" available via the Web :
http://webtools.dyade.fr:8888/

A paper they wrote about it:

@TechReport{BouthorsDedieu99a,
  author = {Vincent Bouthors and Olivier Dedieu},
  title = {Pharos, a Collaborative Infrastructure for Web
                  Knowledge Sharing},
  type = {Rapport de Recherche},
  institution = INRIA,
  year = 1999,
  number = {RR-3679},
  month = may,
  note = {\url{http://www-sor.inria.fr/publi/PCIWKS_rr3679.html}},
}

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