That's what is says at the top of Paolo Massa's blog: "Ramblings on Trust, Recommender Systems, Social Software, and much more." Wow, isn't that a great combination? Personally, I believe that the combination of these things has the potential to become a major new direction for the social web and the new social marketplace.
With entries like Soft Trust and Hard Trust and Evaluating Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems, Paolo discusses these foundations of the social web of the future.
He's not just rambling about these things, however, he is also studying them at the PHD level. An example is a PHD research proposal titled Trust-Aware Decentralized Recommender Systems. Admittedly, I haven't read the 20-page propsal yet, but with a title like that, I certainly plan to. It will probably end up as the topic of a future Web Dawn entry.
Personally, I need to make some time to read more about these topics, and Paolo's blog is near the top of that reading list.
