Recommendation engine for push information delivery

Question

I want to develop a system that involves a recommendation engine for a push information delivery. I have seen plenty of explanations about using some engines, like Mahout Taste and Duine. Yet by using them, the recommended items are obtained after an input containing user Id occurs. So, such engines seem to be suitable only for web applications/service that use pull-request from users.

But by using push messaging, i want my server to actively send a recommmendation message directly to some particular users/customers that are based on recommendation algorithm, relevant. The delivery process would be performed as soon as a new item (product/content) available in the database.

My question, is it possible/recommended to use the existing engines, like Mahout, or Duine? What algorithms are good in order to do this?

Answer 1

What's the distinction you're making -- whether your push to or pull from a user, you have their user ID, presumably. This doesn't affect recommendations. You can recommend in either case, whether you want to push or pull.