Thursday, October 25, 2007

Recommender Applications #4

Fourth of four podcasts in this series on recommender applications. Cross-domain recommendations, social networking applications, drivers for the growth of recommender applications, recommender niches. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, 'Search Inside', Movielens, Flixster, MySpace, Visa, Facebook, F8 platform, Netflix Prize.
Listen now.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Recommender Applications #03

User value derived from and user perception of recommendations from recommender systems; quality metrics; role of content aggregators and media conglomerates in recommender ecosystem: Amazon, Netflix, iTunes, CNet, Consumer Reports, iLike, Flixster, MovieCritic, MovieLens. Questions from listeners on multi-tiered print recommenders like Zagat.
Listen now.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Recommender Applications #02

2nd in a series of 4 podcasts on Recommender applications; user data gathering, scaling, privacy and user data ownership issues; Google News, Amazon recommendations, product suggestions, Netflix, iTunes, Last.fm.
Listen now.

Recommender Applications #01

Podcast: first in a series of four to introduce recommender applications: editorial recommenders, social recommenders, content filtering and collaborative filtering.
Listen now.