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Netflix offered a million dollar reward to anyone who could improve upon their recommendation engine by ten percent. Two researchers accomplished a…
One of the nice things about not having much money is not having to worry about what might happen to it. Sliding stock markets, a poor exchange rate - who cares? Unless, of course, you have something tied up in investments, or are an AdSense publisher who doesn’t live in America.
It’s the holiday’s right? A time for merrily buying Christmas gifts, Hanukkah gifts, Kwanzaa gifts (and, if you’re wondering, time for buying MY birthday present–the 29th of December, write it down…).
Google, already has a near infinite number of data points to compute relevancy for the active parts of the web, and is looking to gather even more user data information. The WSJ has background on the story:
Google's online storage service will enter a competitive field of similar offerings from Microsoft, whenever it enters the field, that is.
Aggressive advertising, unwanted friends, and employer-snooping into social networking profiles may dull the edge of being on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
