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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 ...

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Pierre Henri Clouin lives in the Bay Area. This blog collects his thoughts about ecommerce, internet and software trends.
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  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 […]
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  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 […]
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