Author: Aleecia M. McDonald
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Overstock's $1M Challenge
As reported in Fast Company, RichRelevance and Overstock.com teamed up to offer up to a $1,000,000 prize for improving “its recommendation engine by 10 percent or more.” If You Liked Netflix, You Might Also Like Overstock When I first read a summary of this contest, it appeared they were following in Netflix’s footsteps right down…
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California to Consider Do Not Track Legislation
This afternoon the CA Senate Judiciary Committee had a brief time for proponents and opponents of SB 761 to speak about CA’s Do Not Track legislation. In general, the usual people said the usual things, with a few surprises along the way. Surprise 1: repeated discussion of privacy as a Constitutional right. For those of…