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Twitter Using Social Info From The Web To Recommend Follows For You
fastcompany.com 1 week, 5 days agoNews updates all day from your Fast Company editors. Yesterday evening Twitter revealed a new service to its millions of users: Suggested follows. It's an expansion of its current recommendation engine that simply shows the same list to new joiners to Twitter, and it's rolling out in an number of countries around the world as an experiment to both new joiners and current users. The system uses information from the "Twitter ecosystem" to populate these lists, which means Twitter is harvesting social informat
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HBO’s Real Sports Focuses On South Korea Women’s Golf
yahoo.com 5 days, 10 hours agoFascinating story on this week's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" on HBO focusing on the rise and dominance of South Korean women in the world of golf. This is a country the size of Indiana, with about one percent of the world's population, and yet it's had an outsized effect on the women's game. Here, get a look at Bryant Gumbel's visit to South Korea, and be prepared for some sticker shock ($10,000 a month for families to train their daughters to be the best, for instance). This episode of "Real Sports" a










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