"The way forward with this will be something like the Netflix model (IMHO) where these great data mining systems will attempt to find people who are like me and

"The way forward with this will be something like the Netflix model (IMHO) where these great data mining systems will attempt to find people who are like me and have similar tastes whose recommendations will likely coincide with mine." My company Whit.li has built an api to do just that. We are launching this weekend at SXSW check it out at whit.li.