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Daniel Tunkelang
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Never been to Vegas, but I have to admit it sounds like a surreal setting for an intellectual conference. Will be curious to hear your impressions.
To boldly go
Following on from my last post, and part of what occasioned it, was a slight feeling of discomfort as I am about to take part in an enterprise search conference sponsored by Microsoft. I confess to identifying most enterprise software with the flawed, and increasingly failed, vision of corporate...
Twply may well be a good service, but this kind of spamming is evil and sets a terrible precedent. Not only was it not clear that “support us” meant spam all of my followers, but I explicitly unchecked it! Besides, why would I endorse a tool before even having a chance to use it?
More ranting on my blog:
http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/01/01/faux-viral-maketing/
Let's End Mediocrity in Social Media Too
Om has a great post today about how the U.S. has not only become OK with mediocrity in 2008, we actually started rewarding it. See: auto bailout, banker bailout and every other kind of bailout our politicians are approving. Typically Silicon Valley gets no bailouts-- companies fail, and nimble s...
Nice post. But you don't talk about the communicative aspect of recommendations, which ultimately requires transparency (i.e., that the recommendation come with a human-readable explanation).
My comments on the subject:
http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/21/the-napoleon-dynamite-problem/
Theses on Netflix
Pretentious enough title for you? I Recommender systems - those algorithms that guess what you may be interested in as you browse Amazon or listen to last.fm - are commercially important. Netflix claims that 60% of its rentals are driven by its Cinematch recommender system [link]; that's over h...
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