Movie recommendation service Jinni launches public beta
Jinni is a movie recommendation engine that helps you find films based on a number of factors. You can sort by genre, plot, mood, time/period, target audience or other factors. Probably the coolest feature is the "more like it" function which helps you find movies that you'd probably like based on the movie you're currently looking at. It's kind of like Netflix recommendations without that whole ...
For the past few years Netflix has been dangling a $1 million prize in front of geeks willing to attempt to come up with a better movie recommendation algorithm than the one Netflix was using. The goal was to improve the Netflix recommendations by 10%. Last month, two teams topped the 10% mark, and it's likely that one of them will win the prize. In the meantime, Netflix is already looking ahead. ...





