BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. Do you like Stephen King’s It, but thought it was too long? BookLamp allows you to find books with a similar level of tone, tense, perspective, action, description, and dialog - while at the same time allowing you to specify details like... half the length. It’s impervious to outside influences - like advertising - that impact socially driven recommendation systems, and isn’t reliant on a large user base to work. Take a look at the above video to see how we do it in detail.
We need your help deciding our next move. Is there interest in seeing BookLamp become a function service? Should we seek venture capital or partner with a company that has a book database? Do we open source the project? In a way, this is now as “choose your own adventure” - we need you to join the forums and help us decide the pros and cons of our different options.
Join the forums. Tell us what you think. :)
My job, it has been determined, is to fund us. :) It's the role I'd have chosen for myself (in fact, did choose for myself). A medical emergency with Paul's ...
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Two interesting things happened this week - many things, actually, but two I'll mention here. First, yesterday we rolled out the Ajax based front end, and replaced the Flash based...
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Sometime over the weekend, BookLamp was submitted to Slashdot.org, and we were picked up for front page coverage. That's great, in large part because it's one of the first ti...
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