Archive for the ‘Personalization’ Category
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places and Yelp - among others - have popularized the concept of “checking in” at a particular location on a smartphone - basically broadcasting one’s location to friends, followers and/or business owners over a particular application or multiple social networks. Multiple variations on the theme exist, most ...
Posted in Checkin, Location Based Services, Mobile Retail, Personalization, Recommendation | No Comments »
Friday, May 14th, 2010
hulu has just rolled out a new release that introduces new (and welcome) levels of personalization to their service:
personalized recommendations to help users discover new shows
Ad Tailor - a “like” button for ads
Finding shows on hulu was notoriously difficult - mostly parsing through an endless list with limited sorting options ...
Posted in Advertising, collaborative filtering, hulu, Media recommendation, netflix, Personalization, Recommendation | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Forrester’s Sucharita Mulpuru (@smulpuru) has a new research report out with interesting findings about emerging trends in mobile and multi-channel retail. Overall, the report confirms that the mobile web is on the cusp of becoming a game-changer for both web and brick-and-mortar retailers. Smartphone users are becoming as likely to ...
Posted in Comparison shopping, Mobile Retail, Online Retail, Personalization | 9 Comments »
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Amazon’s results this week were in sharp contrast with the overall health of the retail sector. As highlighted during the holiday seasons, Amazon ruthlessly grabbed market share in an overall down retail market and turned a respectable profit on its very solid execution.
Amazon’s success builds on
- a ...
Posted in Online Retail, Personalization, Recommendation, User Experience, via decision factory, Wish list | No Comments »
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
For the second year, Netflix has awarded a $50K progress prize. The winning team – BellKor in BigChaos – improved on Netflix’s recommendation algorithm by 9.44%. Although the 10% improvement seems to be getting closer in absolute terms, the last stretch might prove elusive for a little while longer.
Is ...
Posted in collaborative filtering, Media recommendation, Personalization, Recommendation | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in collaborative filtering, Content analysis, Media recommendation, Online Retail, Personalization, Recommendation, UGC, Wish list | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Today’s statistics about ecommerce show the devastating impact of the financial crisis. Ecommerce websites have been hit hard and revenue growth has ground to a halt.
Tim Walters at Forrester makes a compelling case for advancing personalization efforts in corporate and ecommerce websites, despite the current recession – and ...
Posted in Personalization, via decision factory | No Comments »