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.
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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
-Trusted conversations have fragmented to the social web --shifting the balance of power to communities -To regain trust, corporate websites will look more like a collection of real-time customer discussions --not just product pitches
This trademark application is a great find!The trademark description seems to cast a wider net than just price comparison. Amazon reviews have started aggregating reviews not just at the product level, but also for key product attributes (e.g. camera's attributes like picture quality, lens quality, and ease of use). You could see 1-click compare becomin […]
I'm surprised someone would even make the argument that newspapers shouldn't be engaging a community of readers, especially in times when readers' loyalty is so critical (and regardless of spam and trolls).Comments are particularly important for the segments of the news industry that will emerge stronger from the current downturn, such as loca […]
Tweetie for Mac is the cleanest Mac desktop twitter client, despite less functionality than tweetdeck or seesmicI also like twt.fm a lot. Very clean and simple app for #MusicMondays!
You (and a few other bloggers) convinced me to give it a try. Here's a side by side comparison of Google and Bing on a simple product search on the Palm Pre. http://img.ly/XO Let's say it's rather illuminating!
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