The former owners of the Washington Post have relaunched a news-curation and recommendation app called Trove, which they hope will encourage users to find and share content in new ways –… Read more »
The streaming music space is heating up thanks to API services that put incredible amounts of music data in the hands of developers who want to build their own streaming services… Read more »
To gain knowledge on the impact of social discovery, they looked at those consumers who use social networks to find out about entertainment options. Based on a survey, 36 percent of… Read more »
This post from the New York Times’ Open blog talks about the architecture and algorithms underpinning its content-personalization engine. Its experience speaks to some larger trends around companies moving from batch… Read more »
Hadoop startup WibiData has updated Kiji, its open source project that aims to make HBase a better (or easier) database for serving real-time applications. Among the updates in its latest SDK… Read more »
This article from Klint Finley at Wired Enterprise raises some good questions about the ideal integration of big data into nonprofits. I rather prefer the efforts of DataKind and the SumAll… Read more »
Yummly’s first mobile app doesn’t just port its semantic food search engine over to iOS. Rather, the company has designed its iPhone app to be used in the grocery store rather… Read more »
Hadoop startup Mortar Data is offering to build recommendation systems for 10 companies, with help from Hilary Mason, Drew Conway and Max Shron. It’s part of a bigger plan to democratize… Read more »
One of the biggest drivers for LinkedIn’s business isn’t the consumer-facing side that you see — it’s the set of tools the company provides professional recruiters to match people with jobs… Read more »