Why Netflix should give me a million dollars.
Netflix has a contest to help improve it’s movie recommendations. If you improve the recommendations significantly then you could win a million dollars. Netflix is hoping you develop a new algorithm that can predict what movies you will like based on your previous ratings. It’s a cool contest but I have another idea for Netflix.
There is a much simpler solution to this problem that will easily improve movie recommendations without using any fancy algorithm. My suggestion to Netflix is to implement a “daily movie recommendation” blog posting feature that is very similar to del.icio.us daily links blog post.This would enable anyone with a blog to configure Netflix to automatically post new blog entries that would consist of movie ratings or recommendations. Each of these posts would include links back to Netflix that would allow other Netflix users to add the movies to their queue. Of course, these links would also drive traffic to Netflix and be another avenue to get new customers to sign up.
After all, how you discover new movies today? Don’t you ask your friend if he liked it?
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