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homemediamagazine.com - 11/25/2008

Blockbuster Bows Set-Top Box

— homemediamagazine.com — 2Wire's MediaPoint media player By Erik Gruenwedel | Posted: 25 Nov 2008 egruenwedel@questex.com Escalating stakes in the... burgeoning streaming market, Blockbuster Nov. 25 unveiled a broadband set-top box that allows users to watch video-on-demand ... (more) Blockbuster Bows Set-Top Box

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dvdtown.com - 11/26/2008

Samsung Blu-ray players to deliver Netflix in HD

— dvdtown.com — Tools: Recommend this news to a friend RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., November 26, 2008 – Samsung Electronics America,... a market leader and award-winning manufacturer of consumer electronics, today announced that its two cutting-edge Blu-ray players, the ... (more) Samsung Blu-ray players to deliver Netflix in HD

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multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 11/20/2008

Sony Pictures Says Netflix Streaming Issue ‘Not Specific To Xbox’

— multiplayerblog.mtv.com — There's been much speculation over movies by Sony Pictures losing the ability to stream via Netflix over... Xbox 360. Netflix revealed to MTV Multiplayer the issue was licensing-related and hoped the restriction was temporary. We've now heard from Sony ... (more) Sony Pictures Says Netflix Streaming Issue ‘Not Specific ...

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Linkpost | 11.22.2008
TechBlog — ... - Various Windows Live services give spammers a way to post malicious links. • If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Except in the case of Napoleon Dynamite , as programmers try to win $1 million from Netflix. Great story, but long. Worth the read. • ...

I screen, you screen, we all screen
GMSV — ... screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective again trumps the objective. The past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assemble yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link. We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.” * From “ If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That ” by Clive Thompson, a look at public ...

Does Facebook Know Your Emotional State?
All Facebook — ... This afternoon I was reading a New York Times article about improving Netflix’s Cinematch, video suggestion algorithm. The article is a great overview about the benefits of using consumer activity data for commercial purposes. The more data we have about consumer activity, the more likely we are able to predict their purchase behavior. One thing that is missing from the equation, as the New York Times points out, is the ability to track consumer emotion when they are browsing the web. ...

The Future of Image and Video Searching
The Mac Observer — ... the hassle of having to go back and tag all my photos. Extending this idea, I'd like to be able to save these search images in a sort of "graphic dictionary." On future occasions, I could simply select the image I was seeking from this dictionary, avoiding the need to find a photo of myself as a starting point. I expect we are still years off from being able to do all of this. But it's coming. While you're waiting, check out another article in this same issue of the Times magazine. This one explores how Netflix determines, from your movie ratings, what other movies to ...

Bringing That Quirky Video Store Clerk to the Web
Bits — ... , a potential Clerk Dogs competitor or partner, uses its own Cinematch software to suggest new movies. The company has acknowledged that the software is less than perfect and is offering $1 million to any programmer who can improve upon it . The contest has been running for two years, but no one has been able to crack the code. (Clerk Dogs would not have been able to enter the contest, Mr. Skorman said, because “we weren’t fixing their system, we wanted to replace it.”) Mr. Skorman began thinking about how to best recommend movies to customers in 1985, when he opened Empire ...

Netflix Awards $50,000 for Progress in Contest
Bits — ... to anyone who improves Cinematch’s prediction power by 10 percent. More than 35,000 programmers, computer whizzes and hackers across the globe are vying for the top prize, which Netflix plans to offer until someone cracks the code. Until then, the company is doling out annual consolation prizes of $50,000 to whoever comes closest. This year’s prize-winning team, named ...

Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest
Bits — ... widely followed because its lessons could extend well beyond improving movie picks. The researchers from around the world were grappling with a huge data set — 100 million movie ratings — and the challenges of large-scale predictive modeling, which can be applied across the fields of science, commerce and politics. The way teams came together, especially late in the contest, and the improved results that were achieved suggests that this kind of Internet-enabled approach, known as crowdsourcing, can be applied to complex scientific and business challenges . That certainly ...