Posted in Content Discovery on Jun 25th, 2008
Over the weekend I was chatting with some folks totally outside the web tech gravity well. While explaining more about what we do at matchmine, it was interesting to see how they approached the concept of media recommendations. Initially, they didn’t see much differentiation between various techniques, but through some examples started to see some […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Human Factors on Jun 9th, 2008
Here at matchmine, we spend a lot of time thinking about what people like. We think about how your tastes in movies relate to the music you like. We do the same for blogs and internet video. By getting a deep, detailed understanding of your likes and dislikes across all the different media types, we’re […]
Posted in Content Discovery on May 21st, 2008
How Online Music Recommendations Work Right Now from Nathan Burke on Vimeo.
Posted in Business Strategy, Content Discovery, Social Networking on Apr 18th, 2008
It’s always been part of the matchmine mantra that encoding your personal interests and tastes in a portable MatchKey would benefit everyone involved. It’s obvious that users appreciate easily dancing among their favorite sites, knowing their preferences are following along. Content producers are similarly pleased with their ability to find their specific audience.
Beyond […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Human Factors on Apr 15th, 2008
“You gotta listen to this!” So Nathan, one of my co-workers, shares his iPod and, yeah, he’s right. Cool song!
“But, hey, Nathan, check this out.” (More iPod sharing.) So, OK, he wasn’t as wild about the band I thought he might like. But he understood why I thought he’d like them. No problem.
But, really, can […]
Posted in Content Discovery on Mar 26th, 2008
Collaborative Filtering has become one of the most popular methods for recommending products or content to customers based on past history. It’s popular because it is easy to understand how it works and there are plenty of off the shelf versions of it you can buy or you can build your […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Random Thoughts on Jan 10th, 2008
I was at the gym the other night and not surprisingly, like clockwork every January, the place was packed with new members making good on their New Year’s resolutions. When a treadmill finally opened up, it happened to be in the front corner, in spot where exactly only one of the nine TV’s is visible […]
Posted in Content Discovery on Jan 8th, 2008
OK, time to ‘fess up. How many of you gave/got a gift certificate this holiday season because you/they couldn’t find the right gift? Oh, I see. That would be pretty much all of you. True, it’s better than the underwear - 10 sizes too big - from your dear old Aunt May. (Dear Aunt May, […]
Posted in Content Discovery on Dec 12th, 2007
Nick Douglas wrote an interesting post over at Valleywag about the most watched internet video of all time – Star Wars Kid – and why there will never be another video that takes off like this awkward teenager’s attempt to act like a Jedi. Apparently, the video has been viewed an estimated 900 million […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Content Discovery, Media Delivery on Nov 21st, 2007
Somebody sent me this, and it’s incredible.
The very essence of what matchmine’s about is being able to find stuff like this (for me anyway) without needing to sift through the mountain or crap everybody else likes.
As problems go, a nice way to spend your time.
