October 3, 2006

Netflix Does Crowdsourcing

by Piers Fawkes in User Generated Content, TV & Film, Web & Technology, Global Community

Netflix Prize 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.

Netflix Prize

3 Responses to “Netflix Does Crowdsourcing”

marble2
Posted from: 68.169.32.60
October 4th, 2006 at 3:04 am

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.
IdeaPort :
Posted from: 203.89.178.62
October 8th, 2006 at 12:04 pm

Netflix and crowdsourcing

Netflix is entering the crowd sourcing game. Its all very 2.0 , and links into previous thoughts about the trend. With Netflix innovation via crowd sourcing is possible because its dealing with software. This lowers the barriers for po…
Piers Fawkes
Posted from: 69.253.249.242
October 9th, 2006 at 3:35 pm

More crowdsourcing info:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061001/COLUMNISTS07/610010393/1040