Experience-based peer recommendations

A system for providing peer recommendations, the system comprising:

• a recorder that records one or more files in memory regarding online interactions in an online environment accessible over a communication network, the recorded files including activity files that include a set of activity data and one or more corresponding user generated content (UGC) files associated with the set of activity data, wherein the recorded activity files include searchable data relating to the activity;
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• a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:
• flags a peer interaction event recorded within at least one of the activity files based on one or more event factors regarding the online interactions in the online environment between a user device of the user and a user device of a flagged peer, wherein the one or more event factors include an amount of contribution by the user device of the user and by the user device of the flagged peer interaction event;
• retrieves a corresponding one of the UGC files from memory based on a search term matching a portion of the searchable data of the at least one activity file;
• generates a display of a portion of the retrieved UGC file and a link selectable to launch an interactive session between the user device of the user and the user device of the flagged peer associated with the flagged event recorded in the at least one activity file, the link included in the at least one activity file;
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• launching the interactive session between the user device of the user and the user device of the flagged peer in response to the link being activated, wherein the launched interactive session is based on the retrieved UGC file.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to provide a method of providing peer recommendations, the method comprising:

• recording one or more files in memory regarding online interactions in an online environment accessible over a communication network, the recorded files including activity files that include a set of activity data and one or more corresponding user generated content (UGC) files associated with the set of activity data, wherein the recorded activity files further include searchable data relating to the activity;
• flagging a peer interaction event recorded within at least one of the activity files based on one or more event factors regarding the online interactions in the online environment between a user device of the user and a user device of a flagged peer, wherein the one or more event factors include an amount of contribution by the user device of the user and by the user device of the flagged peer to the peer interaction event;
• retrieving a corresponding one of the UGC files from memory based on a search term matching a portion of the searchable data of the at least one activity file;
• generating a display of a portion of the retrieved UGC file and a link selectable to launch an interactive session between the user device of the user and the user device of the flagged peer associated with the flagged event recorded in the at least one activity file, the link included in the at least one activity file;
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• launching the interactive session between the user device of the user and the user device of the flagged peer in response to the link being activated, wherein the launched interactive session is based on the retrieved UGC file.