Features Jinni: Wants to be Pandora for Movies We're currently running a series of posts about recommendation technologies and in the comments of our last post about the Netflix Prize, a company called Jinni made itself known. Jinni is a kind of 'Pandora for movies', because it aims to recommend movies and tv shows to you based on its Movie Genome (aping Pandora's Music Genome Project… Richard MacManus View comments
enterprise Kickfire: Data Analytics for the Masses You may not realize it, but the data analytics market is buzzing. There are new vendors emerging, new products popping up, new deals being done, and several new strategies being pursued. Vendors are predominately chasing big data, with battles lines being drawn by solution providers that cater to between roughly 100 TB and 10 PB data sets. The… Enterprise Tony Bain View comments
Google White House Continues to Give Preferential Treatment to Google: Exempts YouTube from Privacy Rules Just a few days ago, we wondered why the White House was giving preferential treatment to Google's YouTube. As CNET's Chris Soghoian points out today, the federal government has very strict rules about using persistent cookies on government sites. However, the new privacy policy for the WhiteHouse.gov site explicitly exempts YouTube from having… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Facebook Murder Reflects Cultural Shifts UK police have reported that a man who murdered his wife this Spring did so because he was upset after seeing her change her marital status to "single" on Facebook, according to coverage today from the BBC. This looks like a horrible story with a sensationalist internet component, but it's actually more culturally significant than that. The… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
New Media Can the Washington Post Create the Killer Political Database? The Washington Post launched a new political database site today, lead by a top political blogger it snapped up this month from a leading new media site. Are these the types of steps that can help struggling newspapers thrive in the future? The Post could join the trailblazing efforts of organizations like the New York Times and the UK Guardian… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments