BookRx Recommends Books According To Your Twitter Feed

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BookRx Recommends Books According To Your Twitter Feed

Posted at 12:03PM Friday 04 Jan 2013

Can Twitter tell you what books to read next? That's the premise behind BookRx, an online experiment from the Knight Lab, created by Larry Birnbaum, co-director of the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University, IL, and Shawn Ryan O'Banion, a PhD student in the Knight Lab and Computer Science at Northwestern.

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