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Archive for July, 2008
Value of recommendation engines
In: Algorithms| Market
31 Jul 2008MIT technology review, which apparently has been published since 1899 according to the cover, in May 2008 published an article by Michael Schrage, “Recommendation Nation”. The last few paragraphs:
For all my excitement about the future of recommendation services, I can’t help feeling the way I felt about search in 2001. Existing recommendation engines have a [...]
New feature reveals the truth about Stan
In: New Features
30 Jul 2008We’re working on friends functionality right now. It’s super exciting, and I can’t wait to add all of my hellomovies friends! But for some people, it’s not so exciting…
What the impending The Dark Knight / Godfather War tells us about the IMDb Top 250
In: Algorithms| Market
29 Jul 2008Movie lovers are a pretty intense bunch. And we should know – we’re rather insane movie lovers ourselves. But it seems that two classes of film lovers are poised for an all-out war. A recent /film blog post reports that The Dark Knight has overtaken The Godfather on the IMDb Top 250 list:
The Godfather has [...]
And now, some inspiring words from the team.
In: Uncategorized
14 Jul 2008“Two-dimensional is the opposite of multidimensional.”
- Stan Mishchenko, misunderstander of words
“???”
- Hieu Nguyen, writer of cryptic commit messages
“Steven, what is your obsession with having things work? Since when has any company ever succeeded by having things work?”
- Christopher Lin, opposer of functionality
“By my mother’s request, I was born to Mahler’s Fifth.”
- Tad Malone, child [...]
Tad the intern says hello
In: Team
8 Jul 2008Hello, it has been a busy few months for HelloMovies. Our office went from a meeting room in Stanford University’s Old Union to a room in Stan and Hamilton’s apartment, and now a space in downtown Palo Alto. But the fluctuating working spaces have not been a hindrance. In fact, the team has been hard [...]
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