Interesting research related to social sites: Manipulation resistant recommender systems (PDF) (www-personal.umich.edu)
An interesting paper on making recommender systems manipulation resistant by computing rater reputation (you reputation as a rater goes up if you could correctly predict whether the target will like recommended product, and vice versa).
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 8.3 ms ] threadI can't vote your article up or down until I read the associated PDF, but I look forward to reading it this evening. It's definitely a topic that's important and interesting to me. I appreciate your locating it for the group.