Mikko’s book recommendation engine
April 7, 2007
From the BookMooch wiki,:
BookMooch Recommendations is a recommendation engine written by Mikko Saari that checks the books you’ve mooched, matches that with other users and produces some recommendations based on their mooching history.
Getting good recommendations takes plenty of mooching and some luck. If your mooching is somewhat eccentric, you will either get very good recommendations (if someone is eccentric in the same way) or something quite random (if you’re alone in your eccentry). The system is currently bit of a work-in-progress. Using the feedback form is highly recommended, as that will make it easier to improve the system.
Advanced search
April 6, 2007
 It’s not entirely finished yet, but I’m really excited about this, so I’m making this feature available right away…
find it in the “browse” tab. You can now search within a topic, and include terms that you want to NOT match (ie, exclude books that have this word). You can also display more search results per page, and easily restrict your search to books published in a country.
There are several more goodies for advanced search that will appear in the next few days — I still have several more days of work to do on it. I won’t pre-announce those features, I’ll just let you know when they’re available. -john |
New feature: find member by email address
April 5, 2007
A new “email address lookup” feature (in “about bookmooch“), to find a member given an email address. Useful for finding a friend’s BookMoooch account name.
Feature: related editions
March 8, 2007
BookMooch now can look up related editions, using data from thingISBN, and OCLC’s xISBN.
You can see it at work here:
http://bookmooch.com/m/wishlist/johnbuckman/related
as well as a link to “related editions” on the book details page, ie:
http://bookmooch.com/m/detail/0141382686
yields:
http://bookmooch.com/m/related?asin=0141382686
Some of the data from OCLC is way off, for example all the Dilbert and Trudeau humor books in my wishlist:
http://bookmooch.com/m/wishlist/buckman_ca/related
those aren’t related editions, but OCLC reports them as related. However, it usually gets things right.
For the time being, I’m not having email notifications take related editions into account, because the related edition info doesn’t seem reliable enough for that.
Second Life space for BookMooch
December 8, 2006
We have an cozy space on Second Life:
our space is in the corner of Magnatune’s land (near the mountains), with three seating areas situated among trees, flowers, an ocean view, and soothing classical music playing in the background.
search for “bookmooch” in Second Life and teleport to it or click on this link: BookMooch
LibraryThing integration
September 2, 2006
The LibraryThing integration is now working inside BookMooch. This
document explains what I’ve done.
