Providing posts from an extended network

摘要

A system includes: an engaging post identifier for identifying and retrieving engaging posts; an extended network post identifier for identifying extended posts from an extended network; a combining module for creating a combined list of added posts from the engaging post and the extended posts, the combining module generating one or more ranked posts by ranking the list of added posts by relevance to a user; and a user interface module for providing the one or more ranked posts. The disclosure also includes a method for finding and providing engaging posts that includes determining engaging posts; determining extended posts from an extended social network using a social graph of the user; adding the engaging posts and the extended posts to create a combined list of added posts; ranking the added posts by relevance to a user; and providing one or more of the ranked posts.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
retrieving, using one or more processors, a social graph of a user; determining, using one or more processors, other users that are more than one hop away from the user in the social graph; retrieving, using one or more processors, as extended posts from an extended social network one or more posts by the other users; ranking, using one or more processors, the extended posts by relevance to the user; providing one or more of the ranked posts; obtaining engaging posts from a network service; adding the engaging posts and the extended posts to create a combined list of added posts comprising:
determining quality of the extended posts;adding more extended posts than engaging posts to the combined list of added posts if the quality of the extended posts is high; wherein ranking the extended posts by relevance to the user includes ranking the added posts.