Interest graph-powered browsing

A system to identify information of interest within an organization, wherein the organization includes a group of users on a private network and sharing an internet domain, the system comprising:

• means for gathering use data that characterizes relationships among information items within the organization,
• wherein the information items include user data and collections of information items;
• means for computing interest data indicating affinity among the information items based on the determined use data to generate interest graph data structures,
• wherein each interest graph data structure expresses the affinity between at least one user and one information item, and
• wherein the affinity represents a likelihood that the one information item is of interest to the at least one user;
• a component configured to receive, from a first user, a request to display a first subset of the information items;
• and
• a component configured to, in response to the request,
• identify the first subset of the information items,
• order the first subset of information items based on the generated interest data, and
• provide a list of the ordered first subset of information items.

A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, if executed by a computing system having a processor, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:

• determining use data that characterizes relationships among the information items with respect to users within the organization,
• wherein the information items include user data and collections of information items;
• generating interest data indicating affinity among the information items based on the determined use data;
• receiving, from a first user, a request to display a first subset of the information items;
• and
• in response to the request,
• identifying the first subset of the information items,
• ordering the first subset of information items based on the generated interest data, and
• providing a list of the ordered first subset of information items.