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Netflix personalization contestants still eye the million-dollar prize

After more than a year, Netflix Inc. is still waiting to award $1 million to a design team that could help it build better personalization technology. But a team of AT&T Labs engineers has come close.

Posted 11/15/2007Paul DemeryPost a comment

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Netflix personalization challenge draws 10,000 entries to date

The $1 million award seeks improvements to Netflix’s collaborative filtering technology to drive more accurate movie recommendations out of its engine. So far, some 20 entries may represent improvements, CEO Reed Hastings tells Internet Retailer.

Posted 12/28/2006Bill BriggsPost a comment

The $1 million question: How can one get inside the customer’s mind?

Netflix has introduced Netflix Prize, an award of $1 million to the first person or team that can help the company achieve accuracy goals in recommending movies based on personal preferences.

Posted 10/04/2006Mark BrohanPost a comment

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DiscountDance.com, LuggagePoint.com and Nimli.com Select Strands Recommender for Personalized Product Recommendations

Online Retailers Implement Recommendations and Reap Rewards in Record Time INTERNET RETAILER - BOSTON, Mass., June 16, 2009 – Strands (http://recommender.strands.com), the leading provider of social recommendations announced today that DiscountDance.com (Internet Retailer Top 500 #336), LuggagePoint.com, Nimli.com, and Furnitureblue.com have recently selected Strands to power their automatic product recommendations. The sites will employ a new...

Posted 06/22/2009

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Pure Verticals, Inc. Launches Patent Pending Platform to Effectively Monetize User-Generated Content

“Mugzy” provides content creators and social networks with the tools to generate revenue through user-initiated ad placements and product endorsements. San Francisco, Calif. – July 15, 2008 – Pure Verticals, Inc., a leading solutions provider in the social networking and user-generated content space, today announced the alpha launch of their patent-pending Monetization of User-Generated Content (MUGC) platform known as “Mugzy.” The Mugzy platform...

Posted 07/15/2008

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Baynote Launches Collective Intelligence Platform

New capabilities allow businesses to leverage community wisdom across all digital channels CUPERTINO, Calif., June 17, 2008- Baynote, Inc., the leader in recommendations and social search, today unveiled the Baynote Collective Intelligence Platform. The new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution allows businesses to deploy peer-driven recommendations, social search and other services across multiple channels while also providing a single point of...

Posted 06/19/2008