1. Login and go to the "My Articles" page.
2. Rate your interest in some articles by moving a slider.
3. Myallo learns, and shows you more interesting articles than before!
4. The more articles you rate, the smarter Myallo gets!
When you initially come to the Myallo Online site, the main page shows articles that are predicted to be of the most interest to our membership as a whole. It's our "General Articles" page.
Each article on the page is the summary of an article somewhere on the Internet's World Wide Web, obtained from one of the hundreds of sites that we scan. The Article Sources we use are syndication feeds coming from the sites, covering a very wide range of topics. Each Myallo article shows the information taken from a Web site's RSS feed, which is usually a summary of a site's Web page. Some articles include pictures or videos. You can click on any Myallo article headline to jump to original site's Web page to see the full article in context.
Each article shown by Myallo indicates the level of interest we have predicted our membership as a whole will have in the article.
When you join Myallo Online, the main page will change to show a list of articles we think will be of interest specifically to you. We call this the "My Articles" page. Since we know nothing about your interests at the start, the page will at first show some articles of general interest.
Now that you have your own list of articles, you can personalize it by giving us some feedback. Your page now includes a slider next to each article, which you can use to tell us how interesting you found the article. As you the articles, Myallo Online creates and maintains your Interest Profile, reflecting this information. Myallo Online starts predicting which articles will be of interest to you. The list of articles on your My Articles page will soon begin to reflect this by showing you more personally interesting articles, and fewer uninteresting ones. Myallo continually updates its evaluations of all the thousands of articles in its database in the background on its servers, even while you are away from our site. It takes a while for learning to occur, but the next time you come back to Myallo Online, you should see it making much better predictions about what articles you like!
Here's some information about how Myallo Online predicts your interest in an article and learns from your feedback:
Each article that Myallo Online has in its database is initially scanned to determine the topics it is covers, and how relevant it is to those topics. When you tell us your interest level in a particular article, we know which topics in your Interest Profile to adjust, and by how much. Since the topics in an Interest Profile are arranged in a hierarchical fashion and interconnected with each other, an adjustment in one topic may cause smaller adjustments in related topics. For example, if you often express a high interest in articles about "software", not only will that topic's interest level be adjusted upwards, but its "parent" "computer" topic, and grandparent "technology" topics will also be adjusted by smaller amounts. In fact, adjusting the interest level in one topic can potentially cause successively smaller adjustments to propagate themselves throughout the Interest Profile.
Technically, your Interest Profile is a sort of neural network, where each topic is a node in that network, and your adjustments are back-propagated through it by adjusting weights in the form of topic interest levels. In fact, Myallo's patent pending neural-network-like techniques have significant parallels to the way the human brain itself performs learning.
These connections and adjustments cause learning to take place. Myallo Online keeps re-evaluating all the articles in its ever-updating database according to your changing Interest Profile. Doing this keeps our server busy even when you aren't on the site. When you visit, the site main page will show the articles it has predicted to be most interesting to you. Myallo learns to make better and better predictions of your interest in articles over time, as long as you keep giving it feedback on articles and topics. After a while though, you'll find you don't have to make more adjustments - unless your interests change.
You can see your own Interest Profile as well. It displays a large list of topics covering a very wide variety of subjects. The list of topics is the same for everyone, but each topic shows an interest level that is specific to you. You can adjust sliders on any of these topics to directly indicate your interest. but this is not necessary. Myallo Online itself adjusts these levels as you tell it how interested you are in articles - Myallo knows, for each article, what topics the article is relevant to, and how relevant it is to each topic it so it knows how much to adjust your interest in various topics when you use a slider to indicate your interest in an article overall.