I’ve been fascinated with Netflix ever since I did a giant research paper about the company for my senior project for business management. Particularly fascinating to me were the technologies Netflix uses to estimate demand and the Netflix Recommendation Engine (Cinemax), which I have posted about previously.
Well now it looks like Netflix has placed a [...]
Today was my first day of work in the marketing division of online retail giant Overstock. For the curious, my official title is “Product Manager / Business Analyst”, not that it necessarily helps you (or me) understand what I do. :)
Although I have a hard time showing it, I’m really pretty excited –much more that [...]
I created a little Firefox search engine add-on for LDSMedia (a company with which I am affiliated with through Provo Labs). (LDSMedia is a search engine site with tons of indexed LDS content –wonderful for doing LDS research, study, lesson preparation, etc.)
Anyway, now you can search LDS content right from your Firefox browser by installing [...]
Those of you who are visiting my site in IE will notice my new alert, generated by the Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress. Quoth the alert: “Internet Explorer sucks. Jordy recommends Firefox (a free open-source alternative) so your browsing will suck no more forever. Click here to learn more or download.”
It’s a little spammy but [...]
The PageRank for Software for Starving Students (via Google’s toolbar) went clear from 0 to 5 with the latest data update. That’s pretty indicative of the almost immediate success the project has enjoyed. The site has only been up since the very end of December but has had some really incredible growth. Just check out [...]
Jake Spurlock IMed me pointing out that the Mac version of the Software for Starving Students CD is listed as Apple’s featured download for Mac OS X. This is great exposure for the project. Good work team. :)
It’s good to see some of Provo Labs’ Blastyx videos coming together. The Blastyx team has put a lot of work into these, and I think they’re doing a pretty good job. I especially liked “taking it out on monitor” at the end. Pretty cool, and pretty funny. Reminds me of my friend Dave Skousen [...]
We finally posted details about the upcoming Geek Dinner. I wanted to give the DevUtah site an overhaul first, but alas, no time. Here they are:
DevUtah’s next Geek Dinner will be held at 6:00 this Tuesday night at the Miller Business Innovation Center on the Salt Lake Community College campus (9690 South 300 West, Sandy).
We’ll [...]
A few days ago, Dave posted about Software for Starving Students on Digg, and the downloads started coming immediately. With well over 20,000 downloads the last time I checked (a couple of days ago), the project has become a major success. We’ve transferred over 11 terabytes of data and our seeders have held up fine, [...]
