26 month ago
plasticbag : Netflix are offering $1 million to anyone who can substantially improve their recommendations algorithms - The most interesting thing is that they're opening up a substantial dataset in order to help them work through these issues. I'd be really interested to get my hands on that with a talented data visualiser. Maybe Stamen should have a play?
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Podzinger makes podcasts searchable by performing speech recognition upon them... - Media analysis is only one of the three ways you can accrete metadata around a media object. Also worth considering - production metadata and post-release public annotation...
Linkorama : PODZINGER - PodZinger enables one to quickly, easily and reliably search the Web for podcasts and locate specific information at the exact location in the audio file and is based on 30 years of speech recognition research and development from BBN Technologies.
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38 month ago
plasticbag : "Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You’re In Luck!" - I'm really interested that Apple decided to use software to get people to buy a new iMac rather that putting the software on every computer that could run it. Although clearly, people are excited enough to want it on all their computers...
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