Archive for the ‘Recommendation’ 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in collaborative filtering, Content analysis, Recommendation, Search, Text mining, UGC | 2 Comments »
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 »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The State of Retailing Online report for 2008 is an in-depth look at the top online retailers’ priorities and opportunities to strengthen and differentiate their websites.
According to Sucharita Mulpuru, Senior Retail Analyst from Forrester Research, who wrote the report, “online retailers are finding that their best investment efforts are ...
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