Social networking relevance index

摘要

A system and method are provided for organizing a listing of activities on a social networking website, including present each user of the plurality of users an organized representation of activities, the representation of activities sorted by how relevant each activity is to the particular user.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of organizing a stream of activities on a social networking website, comprising:
retrieving, in a computer, the stream of activities; determining, in the computer, relevance factors for each activity in the stream of activities; calculating, in the computer, a relevance index for each activity based on its associated relevance factors; organizing, in the computer, the stream of activities based on each activity's relevance index, wherein the organizing considers stream diversity by not displaying, to a first user, more than a first number of activities from a first friend of the first user unless the stream also displays at least one activity from a second user; and displaying, in the computer, the organized stream of activities.