Pushing the Limits of the Netflix Prize (4)
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Since October 2006, Netflix has held a competition to improve their movie recommendation system. The Netflix Prize is $1 million for anyone who can beat their existing system with a 10% accuracy improvement. So far, around 30,000 teams have registered for the challenge and the top ten teams boast improvements around 9% over the incumbent recommendation engine, Cinematch. Each team of competitors is hard at work generating an algorithm that can predict human behavior through ...
Relic Hints At Possible Homeworld Sequel (1)
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As the first real-time space combat strategy game, Homeworld is a game that remains near and dear to the hearts of many PC gamers. And now, with the IP making its way back to the original developer Relic from Vivendi, a giant step may have been taken toward a potential sequel.Asked by Eurogamer whether there was a chance that a Homeworld 3 was on the way, Dawn of War 2 lead designer Jonny Ebbert responded ...
Miracle Fabric “Never Gets Wet” (4)
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Swiss chemists have developed a fabric with extreme water resistant properties - in fact, they claim it “never gets wet”. The polyester material is coated with millions of nanofiliments which trap water as spherical balls on top of the material. Tilting the fabric a mere 2 degrees horizontal will cause the suspended water to slide off like marbles. Unfortunately this miracle material didn’t hold up to a run through a washing machine, but nonetheless an ...
Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn) (104)
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Page by page, section by section, the influence of the New York Times is fading away. Great people on an important mission, but their footprint is shrinking and the company is losing stock value and cash and power and the ability to have the impact that they might. Today's Sunday magazine has a cover story on Jennifer Aniston. Of course! "All the News That's Fit to Print" is the heart of the problem. It was ...
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ChangeForge said:
Hmmm... much to think about here. Live comfortably in the armchair of the past, or go stand on the wooden stool to see what's on top of the cabinets? The armchair is more comfortable, while the stool offers a vantage not to be had in comfort.
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Marshall Sponder said:
Wow, good post!
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Mahesh CR said:
How are other media companies going to negotiate these times?
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Xeus said:
"The people I know at the Times are smart, driven, honest and on a mission to do great work. The people didn't fail the system, the system failed them."
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Mike T said:
Brilliant post.
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Jeff said:
Just about everything Seth writes in the post could be applied to the radio industry.
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Devlin D said:
I think it would be a good idea to have an iPhone app that allowed readers to pick and choose which sections they would like. You could also tailor content and ads according to their interests. Newspapers should just stop fighting and evolve.
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Jbud1 said:
Can you find the similarities to your company's business in Seth's Analysis.
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Stuart Maxwell said:
This post by Seth is particularly spot-on. There's a lot of meaty stuff in here; see point #5, for instance, or the "All the News That Fits" paragraph.In my opinion, what's at the heart of all of this is the fact that when newspapers like the Times became profit centers instead of news organizations, they lost their souls. Instead of being community-driven and responsible for informing the public about what's going on in the world, they became insulated and responsible to shareholders. Newspapers started whittling away at the very infrastructure -- investigative journalists, foreign news desks, etc. -- that gave them an edge as information purveyors.This all started well before the internet rose in prominence; so, at the very time that papers like the NYT could have shown leadership in the world wide web, they were too compromised and blinded by their allegiance to profit to recognize the opportunities.Newspapers used to serve the local community. Now, I think, they wouldn't know a community if it bit them in the ass.
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mndoci said:
Actually I think the Times has already started doing this. Presumably some folks are keeping a leash on what is possible, cause they could be doing a lot more
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Ade said:
"The entire mindset of (every) newspaper has been driven by the cost of paper, the finite nature of paper, the cost of delivery and the cycle of a daily paper. You run enough articles to fit as many ads as you can sell."
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Francine Hardaway said:
This is such a terrific analysis of why the Times missed its moment. But maybe that's because it wasn't owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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Marshall said:
A really great piece from Seth about the Times, but it's true of most big, national dailies. Note to UK papers: What are you doing?
College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts: Start Of New Trend? (83)
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Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being utilized. The college will offer forwarding services instead. Sponsor Starting next year, freshman enrolled at Boston College won't be given an actual email account complete with login ...
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Jonathan Blackburn said:
An interesting development . . . though colleges really need to start collection cell phone #s for SMS (which is how most college students really communicate anyway).
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Aaron B. Hockley said:
This makes sense... 18 year olds entering college already have e-mail, and some have a significant online identity already; why burden them with yet another inbox?
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Kingsley Joseph said:
jeez, that took long enough.
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Devlin D said:
Very very interesting decision, but I can only imagine the cost savings of having no mail servers.
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athensoh said:
интересно! именно так работает и мой университетский эккаунт
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Jorge said:
BC's IT department has it together. Makes a lot of sense to just set up college email addresses as a forwarding service.
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.reading said:
I think it's a good move. I hated that when I was in college, I always had to log in and check my school mail (their POP was so unreliable, but then again, this was the 90s/early 2000s) when I'd rather be using my main account.
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Jarred said:
huh, interesting. should blog this. ahahahahaha, just kidding, who blogs anymore? blogging is dead. oh god.
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Jordan T-H said:
I think it's kind of irresponsible for colleges to give students only temporary accounts, then change the email address entirely to an @alum.whatever address afterwards. Make it stationary forever, or don't do it at all. I *never* used my IU account. Ever. Or at purdue. I had them forward.
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Cory said:
Whether it's being done to save money or the fact most students already have an email address, I think it's a fantastic idea. As far as the question of what happens if they change their email address, I don't think it's any different than if they change their mailing address or phone number.
HOW TO: Turn Your Photos, Videos and Tweets Into Stories (45)
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StoryTlr, a project that enables you to create a simple event-based timeline of your photos, videos and tweets, has received several significant updates in the past few days, and suddenly - although the authors themselves insist that it’s a hobby project and not a “real” startup - it feels like a full featured service with some very interesting usage possibilities. StoryTlr is a slightly different take on the lifestream concept. Let’s say, for example, that ...
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Chris said:
Die Idee find ich gut, wenn ich im Urlaub bin, meine Erlebnisse über twitter und meinen Blog veröffentliche und dazu Fotos und Videos hochlade. Das zusammengefügt auf einem Storyboard ... sehr clever.
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Jennifer said:
I want to try this!
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Bob Hazlett said:
What a cool little way of bringing together all your videos, posts, photos, tweets and updates within one little application.
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Sarah Glassmeyer said:
May try this out on family turkey week vacay. It will make the prosecutor's job when I kill them so much easier!
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CBa 2.0 said:
3 idées géniales ...1) personnalisez votre lifestream jusqu'au bout des ongles ... c'est le votre pas celui d'un autre ... même jusqu'à utiliser votre domaine comme url !2) Sauvegarder vos agrégations photos, vidéos, bokkmarks, twitts, etc. pour en disposer même en cas de rupture du service.3) RACONTEZ vous sans devoir maintenir un blog, pondre des textes, etc ... place qu choc de photos et vidéos.Je parie gros qu'un usage professionnel est même envisageable ;-)
Antigua whitelisted (1)
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Because I was emailed this story three times and I’m too busy to look for something else to post today, you are going to hear about Antigua getting whitelisted. From the Antigua Sun: After months of hard work, negotiations and amendments, Antigua and Barbuda has successfully attained white list certification from the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport. By attaining this white list status, remote gaming operators based in Antigua and Barbuda will, as ...
Lease the Battery, Not the Car (3)
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Japanese car manufacturer Nissan has a unique vision for the future of electric automobiles. Carlos Tavares, Nissan’s VP for product planning and development is betting that people will buy cars, but lease batteries. The thinking behind this is that battery technology and storage capacity will inevitable get better over time, and owners will need to upgrade batteries accordingly. Makes sense - much better to get a new battery than a whole new car. Nissan’s recently ...
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Arasmus said:
People replace cars on average every 4 years. I am not sure that battery technology evolves any quicker.
Macau gloom bandwagon (1)
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For a while, the Big Story was how hot Las Vegas was. Then it was Macau: The Next Generation. Now that Vegas has cooled off a bit and Macau’s hitting a plateau, we’ve got a new story: Macau is in dire straits. Even Time has picked it up: But in the wake of the faltering global economy, Macau is not such a sure bet anymore. The problem is that some of those giants embarked on ...
Xbox 360 Netflix Offerings Gutted Of Columbia Pictures Flicks [New Xbox Experience] (4)
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The selection of movies that one can stream from Netflix to the Xbox 360 just got a bit smaller, as a batch of content distributed by Columbia Pictures — owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment (dun dun dunnnnn!) — is now listed as "currently unavailable for playback on the Xbox." That affects some big releases from the studio, including titles like Superbad, The Karate Kid and The Lives of Others but also thankfully saves us from ...
iPhone Apps Aren't iPod Songs (20)
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The post of the day comes from Andy Finnell who writes that iPhone app developers must abandon the $0.99 price that many apps are selling for these days. Andy calculates that a developer who wants to make a living off an iPhone app (at $40k/year) must sell 196 apps per day to do that. He also calculates that at $9.99 per app, you'd need to sell 16 apps per day to do that. But Andy's ...
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This should really be the mindset of all developers. The minute you start to bring in revenue is when you are the most vulnerable if you don't dedicate some of that revenue to providing a superior user experience.
The future of photography (1)
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Several interesting things are happening in the wild world of digital photography as it's colliding with digital video. Most notably, the new Canon 5D Mark II (roughly $2700) can record 1080p video and the new Nikon D90 (roughly $1000) can record 720p video. At the higher end, Red just announced some cameras that will ship next year that will be able to record full video (as fast as 120 frames per second in some cases) ...
New Efficient UPS Gadget Eliminates Lables (1)
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UPS and HP have been working on a combination scanner/printer that prints sorting labels directly on to packages. This innovation may seem small, but it promises big results. The existing system uses a large thermal printer, PC, monitor and scanner. Combining and scaling down all these functions into a tiny hand held device ends up saving huge amounts of time and resources. UPS estimates they will save approximately 92,456 hours year through increased productivity, 1,338 ...
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