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Friday, 26th June 2009

They Did It! One Team Reports Success in the $1m Netflix Prize

In October 2006 online movie rental company Netflix announced a contest called The Netflix Prize; any team that could beat its in-house recommendation engine by 10% in predicting which movies people would like would win a $1 million prize. It was a huge engineering challenge that more than 50,000 teams of computer scientists signed up to take…

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@Pistachio's TechStars Startup Gets Funded Fifteen Days Into Program

Laura "Pistachio" Fitton's TechStars project, OneForty, has received an angel round of funding to the tune of around $250,000 just 15 days into the business accelerator session. The startup, which was selected to participate in the Boston TechStars program, is described as an "app store for Twitter." Fitton, who literally wrote the book on Twitter…

Jolie O'Dell comments

Why Enterprises Don't Like SaaS

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, "SaaS or on-premise?" The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say, "SaaS, of course." Wrong. At least 50% of the vendors were deploying primarily on premise. Even some of the pure SaaS crowd would admit to an occasional…

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VIDEO INTERVIEW: MMORPG eRepublik's Alexis Bonte

After selling Last Minute to Travelocity, Alexis Bonte developed an obsession with Sid Meier's strategy game Civilization. Bonte played so often, that his wife began to complain. He jokes that he partnered with George Lemnaru to started eRepublik Labs and the eRepublik game in order to satiate his gaming appetite through work. The company…

Dana Oshiro comments

Transcending Moore's Law: Is This the Most Important Chart in the Technology Business?

Moore's Law, the observation that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit has doubled every two years, explains the exponential growth in computing power that enables all the innovation we web-heads love so much. Futurist Ray Kurzweil argues that the exponential growth of computing power extends beyond the history…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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