Improving Cinemax, the Netflix Recommendation Engine

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

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 [...]

Netflix Fix and the Long Tail

Monday, March 27th, 2006

That’s right. I finally broke down and joined Netflix. Actually, I’d already signed on for 2 free weeks during my last semester of college. Of course, I had to drop it right away because of the student budget. I had a series of massive papers and a presentation examining the online DVD rental company and [...]