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Jun 28, 2009
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rickwebb:

Oh hey. The Netflix prize got beaten. Or won. Or completed. Or whatever. Cool.
Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize | Epicenter | Wired.com

Between the actual value of a 10% increase in quality of the recommendation engine and the incredible amount of press Netflix has recieved as a result of the competition, anyone care to guess how much more than $1 million worth of value they got out of this?

rickwebb:

Oh hey. The Netflix prize got beaten. Or won. Or completed. Or whatever. Cool.

Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize | Epicenter | Wired.com

Between the actual value of a 10% increase in quality of the recommendation engine and the incredible amount of press Netflix has recieved as a result of the competition, anyone care to guess how much more than $1 million worth of value they got out of this?

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    One of the best examples of a business embracing open source thinking.
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    They deserved to win simply for the haphazardly mashed up team name.
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    Between the actual value of a 10% increase in quality of the recommendation engine and the incredible amount of...
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