Netflix–Give Me What I Want to Watch!!
We are all familiar with recommendations that are “pushed” towards us on e-commerce sites–think Amazon.com, Netflix, Pandora, and even Facebook (who suggests “friends”). We never seem to receive Netflix recommendations that we like without suffering through a lot of misfires. For every movie we really love, there are at least 20 duds. And I have rated over 2580 movies on Netflix. So they should know what I like by now.
In a recent article in USA Today (April 9th) I learned that Netflix is trying desperately to improve its recommendation system, especially for...