Archive for the ‘Content analysis’ Category

Techmeme’s Human Eye for the Straight Algo

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Gabe Rivera of Techmeme fame has sparked a lively debate as he announced he had hired an editor to improve interestingness, reactivity and relevance of his news aggregation website (see VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and ReadWriteWeb). Rivera’s plight echoes Netflix’s challenges at boosting its movie recommendation engine, as algorithmic improvements gradually near ...

Music discovery services chart new paths for gift recommendations

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Pandora, Last.fm, and iLike have broadened the appeal of recommendation algorithms and social discovery and sharing. Despite a challenging – even hostile - business environment, passionate entrepreneurs and music lovers are bringing to market new ways to explore and discover new music. Mufin has gathered the most attention so ...