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“Hi, I really liked your post! We also tried incorporating an extensive set of movie attributes, but this was completely useless. It is very likely that user-demographics will be more useful, as there are far less ratings per user, and source...

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Ok, so here's where I tell all about how I (now we) got to be tied for third place on the netflix prize. And I don't mean a sordid tale of computing in the jungle, but rather the actual math more...

“Before 1998, when Netflix Inc. began operations, the idea that your mailbox might somehow compete with the neighborhood video store was inconceivable.”

“On Friday I sat down in San Francisco with Israel Ganot, president and COO at Second Rotation. The former eBay and Amazon executive — not to mention the cubemate of the CEO of Kozmo.com (remember them?) — has had many source...

“Anita Elberse, a Harvard Business School associate professor, has a really interesting article in the new Harvard Business Review that analyzes some Long Tail data and challenges some of the theory's predictions. Based on Rhapsody music data and DVD rental more...

“Coming in the fall Xbox 360 update: Netflix! Yes, Xbox 360 owners who are also Netflix subscribers will be able to stream movies available for online streaming now straight to their consoles. You can also share your Netflix movies with more...

A trivial algorithm, which gives each movie its average grade, produces an RMSE of 1.0540. An algorithm used by Netflix, called Cinematch, uses "straightforward statistical linear models with a lot of data conditioning". It produces an RMSE of 0.9525, a more...

“It doesn't seem particularly confusing to us. Netflix a) is cost effective for consumers; b) has a decent movie selection; c) is (mostly) reliable; and d) is convenient -- you don't have to drag yourself to a skanky store only source...

“ Each Netflix account allows the creation of additional profiles, and the DVDs in your subscription plan can be divvied up among them. Unfortunately for its users, the mail-rental outlet has decided to kill the profile feature in just a more...

“1. Mark, Thanks for writing about Hulu, I actually hadn't heard of them until now. Looks interesting and I can definitely see why it could make more money than youtube. Also would seem to be a low-budget version of Netflix's more...

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“Much has been made of Netflix’s current outage and what it means for their product and business (apparently 1.8-3.6M in daily revenue). And if you aren’t aware of Netflix’s outage, check either Techmeme (it’s covered their homepage) or login to source...