A newly-launched startup called Foundd is taking the algorithmic approach, while its Berlin neighbour Tweek.tv is going for the social angle. But why has no winner emerged in this space already? Read more »
The adoption of tablets, social media and new interfaces and the changing nature of the TV itself mean the digital living room will continue on its path of rapid change, thanks to new ways of creating, viewing, bundling, distributing and selling content. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if the top two teams in the Netflix Prize competition united and put their predictive analytics skills to work together, you’ll soon find out. On Tuesday, big data service provider Opera Solutions acquired Austrian predictive analytics specialist Commendo. Read more »
In the world of science, cloud computing provides an ideal platform for crowdsourcing scientific problems across the whole world of researchers, giving them access to data sets and the computing resources to analyze them. If big data is any indicator, scientific crowdsourcing should catch on. Read more »
Netflix’s newly announced Netflix Prize 2 would challenge competitors to recommend movies based on demographic and behavioral data. But one privacy expert says the company should pull the contest before it even launches, because the data Netflix is offering up about its users cannot truly be […] Read more »
Three years after the competition started, the first Netflix Prize was awarded today to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos,” a seven-member squad that combined three competing teams (and included two AT&T scientists, the company is touting today). And after all that, the winning team only won by 10 […] Read more »
Netflix Prepping Another Prize Contest; company said it will provide more details around a second recommendation improvement contest in late September. (USA Today) Meanwhile, the first Netflix Prize contest is still going on, and more than 30 competitors joined forces to overtake the initial — though […] Read more »
