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Netflix for Researchers: Deep Dyve Launches Rental Service for Research Articles
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 27, 2009 12:50 PM / 1 Comments

Buying a single article from a scientific journal is usually prohibitively expensive if you are not a student

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Netflix to Launch Streaming-Only Service...but Not in the U.S.
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2009 6:13 AM / 6 Comments

During yesterday's Q3 earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed the company's plans to launch a streaming-only service

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Netflix Prize: $1M is a Steal for Predictive Tech
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 21, 2009 3:41 PM / 4 Comments

After years of struggling to beat Netflix's Cinematch recommendation algorithm by a baseline of 10%, two groups have

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Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Personalization
Written by Richard MacManus / September 9, 2009 6:00 AM / 12 Comments

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our

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They Did It! One Team Reports Success in the $1m Netflix Prize
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 26, 2009 6:43 PM / 3 Comments

In October 2006 online movie rental company Netflix announced a contest called The Netflix Prize; any team that

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Netflix Launches Better Personalization Features
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 27, 2009 10:59 AM / 2 Comments

Netflix, the popular online DVD rental service, just announced a number of new features that will allow users

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Queued: An Adobe AIR App for Netflix
Written by Sarah Perez / February 18, 2009 5:21 AM / 13 Comments

Netflix lovers out there, rejoice! You can now manage your Netflix queue right from your desktop using a

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Recommendation Systems: Interview with Satnam Alag
Written by Richard MacManus / February 8, 2009 9:25 PM / 9 Comments

In a recent post, we looked at recommendation systems, briefly reviewing how Amazon and Google have implemented their

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NetFlix InstantWatcher: A Netflix Mashup for Impatient People
Written by Sarah Perez / January 28, 2009 6:32 AM / 9 Comments

Netflix subscribers, here's a mashup just for you: the new Netflix InstantWatcher, an application built using the Netflix

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Netflix Prize: Will the $1 Million be Won in 2009?
Written by Richard MacManus / January 21, 2009 6:06 PM / 5 Comments

We're starting a new series here on ReadWriteWeb about recommendation engines. We identified recommendations as one of 5

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Top 10 Digital Lifestyle Products of 2008
Written by Steve O'Hear, last100 editor / December 18, 2008 1:00 PM / 7 Comments

Editor's Note: This list was contributed by Steve O'Hear, editor of last100, a former RWW network blog. There

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Weekly Wrapup: Nokia's iPhone Competitor, Netflix API, RDF Apps, and More
Written by Richard MacManus / October 4, 2008 5:00 AM / 1 Comments

It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week Nokia launched an

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Netflix API Launches Tomorrow - Here's What it Will and Won't Include
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 30, 2008 4:59 PM / 10 Comments

The much-awaited Application Programming Interface (API) for movie site Netflix will launch tomorrow, according to an email from

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Pixily: Put Your Paper Docs Online in 3 to 5 Days Max
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 23, 2008 12:24 PM / 15 Comments

New startup Pixily lets small businesses and individuals send paper documents by mail in a Netflix style envelope,

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Mesh, Deep Zoom, Netflix on Xbox: Is Microsoft Becoming "Cool"?
Written by Sarah Perez / July 18, 2008 6:00 AM / 11 Comments

Microsoft. Depending on who you are, their name alone elicits some pretty strong feelings. Some people love them,

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Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web
Written by Muhammad Saleem / June 30, 2008 2:48 PM / 20 Comments

Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process

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Blockbuster Kiosks: Still a Bad Idea
Written by Josh Catone / June 2, 2008 8:02 AM / 17 Comments

Blockbuster is struggling, and seems to be trying as hard as it can to keep that moniker. Even

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Internet TV News: Three More Netflix Set-Top Box Partners, New Hollywood JV, PS3 Movie Download Service
Written by Steve O'Hear, last100 editor / April 27, 2008 6:17 AM / 3 Comments

Lots more Internet TV-related coverage on our network blog last100 this week, including news of a new joint

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FeedFlix Turns Netflix into a Social Network
Written by Josh Catone / April 23, 2008 10:05 AM / 3 Comments

A new service called FeedFlix parses data out of Netflix RSS feeds and turns Netflix into a rudimentary

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Rethinking Recommendation Engines
Written by Alex Iskold / February 25, 2008 1:37 AM / 17 Comments

Over two years ago, Netflix announced a Recommendation Engine contest - anyone who invents an algorithm that does

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