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After a discussion with a client today about privacy and data security in social networking, I started looking at physician portals and came across a fascinating post from Dr. Scott Shreve – Knowledge Prostitution enabling Aggregated Voyeurism: Is this a Business Model? Voyeurism (voi-yûr’ ĭz‘əm) n. 1. The practice in which an individual derives pleasure from …

The comparison between an open source collaborative recommender system and a closed access research effort is revealing – the open source project is already implementing production grade systems and the closed source research  project can allow us to read their article for a fee. The Apache Mahout/Taste version 0.1 open source software project is being …