14 days ago
gleuschk : Netflix: Coming soon to a Mac near you | News - Digital Media - CNET News - A little tidbit tucked away at the bottom of a blog entry posted in the wee hours of the morning proclaims that the movie rental company will make its "Watch now" service work on Macs by the end of this year.
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14 days ago
deusx : Netflix API: Looking good - Laughing Meme - "Netflix was pretty much the last place I was Web 2.0 style share cropping, creating value without a way to get it out. The Netflix API has been rumored for a long time, but with today’s release they really did an excellent job."
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Features are a one-way street - once your userbase is big enough, you can't pull features without backlash [via]
philgyford : Features are a one-way street - (37signals) - Yes. (via Daring Fireball)
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4 month ago
Andy Baio : Netflix team decides to keep Profiles after community backlash - good move, the users are rejoicing
gleuschk : Netflix Community Blog: Profiles feature NOT going away - yaaaaaay!
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4 month ago
deusx : Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player - "Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen—you already have everything you need."
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Netflix getting rid of Profiles, the bastards - saying "this change will help us to continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers", i.e. zero explanation at all
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5 month ago
deusx : NetFlix: First Netflix Streaming Box Review, $100 and Unlimited Downloads! - "First of all, the box is 99 bucks, ... Any Netflix disc mailing plan over $9 gets you unlimited streaming of almost 10,000 titles."
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8 month ago
gleuschk : Another Visualization of the Netflix Prize Dataset | A Beautiful WWW - from the mefi thread about Jordan's Wired article
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gleuschk : This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize - nifty
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Greg Storey : Netflix dumps HD-DVD after seeing a "clear signal" from the industry. - Time for Toshiba to take the hint.
Rod Begbie : Netflix, Citing a Clear Signal From the Industry, Will Carry High-Def DVDs Only in Blu-ray Format - Feb 11, 2008 - Further fuel for the "HD-DVD is fucked" fire, slashed-price players and superbowl ads be damned. #
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11 month ago
joshua : Netflix Update: Try This at Home - interesting incremental feature detection algorithm
gleuschk : Netflix Update: Try This at Home - awesome step-by-step on attacking the netflix problem. magic ingredient: singular value decomposition
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15 month ago
gleuschk : Whimsley: The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later - fascinating
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want - Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want: I'd love to know who the Yahoo spokesperson quoted in this story is... *sigh*
Rod Begbie : Vacation policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want - Holy crap, I wish that was true at [RhymesWithNose]. I currently get less than three weeks paid vacation per year, and Joy & I like to take a two-week vacation in the summer. It's my one major beef with my job, and the American "work ethic" in general. [via] #
Linkorama : Vacation policy at Netflix - Take as much as you want
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21 month ago
gleuschk : Listology: Netflix Tracker: Known Distribution Centers - way more than they admit to on the netflix site
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21 month ago
Rod Begbie : Doctor Who - Did you see the chainsaw episode? - Halfway through watching the new "Doctor Who" DVDs, Netflix renters were suddenly greeted with scenes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. #
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24 month ago
Rod Begbie : Netflix Prize: Forum / Miss Congeniality - Some great insights pulled out of the Netflix dataset. The list of movies "you either loved loved loved or hated hated hated" is particularly good. [via] #
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25 month ago
deusx : Netflix: Search Results - Search for movies, actors, etc on Netflix
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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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25 month ago
jimray : And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely - Netflix is offering a million bucks to anyone who can improve their recommendations engine by 10%
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25 month ago
jimray : Judging your friends by their Netflix lists. By Sam Anderson - Slate Magazine - "The end of your list is the person you want to be—Eraserhead, the eight-hour BBC Bleak House, the complete Werner Herzog—while the top is the person you actually are: Wedding Crashers, Scary Movie 4, The Bridges of Madison County."
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27 month ago
gleuschk : Netflix Queue Shuffler: Randomize or reverse your queue with bookmarklets | badsegue.org : a journal of creative computing - sweet. now, if only it would keep tv series together
deusx : Netflix Queue Shuffler: Randomize or reverse your queue with bookmarklets�|� badsegue.org : a journal of creative computing - "Here’s a little tool to randomly re-order your Netflix queue."
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27 month ago
gleuschk : Flickr: The Notes To Netflix Pool - many I don't get, but some are good
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27 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Pulling the cable plug - Pulling the cable plug: welcome to the non-TV club
deusx : Brad Choate: Pulling the cable plug - "today we’re without cable again, but not because we can’t afford it."
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27 month ago
merlinmann : Stone: A Netflix Hangover - Newsweek Brad Stone - MSNBC.com - I've heard Kathryn Yu call this phenomenon "Notflix." And BTW: *I* just returned _City of God_ unwatched after it sat here for 10 days.
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