One story that’s got the blogosphere buzzing is the news that Netflix is going to ask for outside help to make their DVD recommendations engine better. Anyone can enter! And the grand prize is $1 million and geek fame. Netflix site www.netflixprize.com says:
The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences. Improve it enough and you win one (or more) Prizes. Winning the Netflix Prize improves our ability to connect people to the movies they love.
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yes, this caught quite q buz. i’m not sure it sends the right message – hey, we can ‘t figure it out, maybe someone else can? they also have a 5 year terms and conditions with an arbitrary 10% improvement clause. crowdsourcing is the next big thing.
October 4th, 2006 at 3:04 am
More crowdsourcing info:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061001/COLUMNISTS07/610010393/1040
October 9th, 2006 at 3:35 pm