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An assonance for Fred

I had a great meeting this morning .. and it seems that it was a mutual feeling.

On my way to Phil's Apero Wireless #2 where i was exploring paths to put our netvibes widget on mobile, I stopped in front of an ad campaign ..... I stopped and took a few seconds to think again about the great meeting I had this morning ... I stopped because Fred talked to me about a tag (another assonance with the folksonomy world with a french touch in it) he used to see near to his home in london.
Fred Graffiti is from Banksy, my pictures are from here.

--> Il y a des jours (et des posts) qui filent la banane !

U-lik is a proud member of Cisco's Human Network

I love the new Cisco advertising campaign : The human Network....

--> so , we are very proud to be a member of the Human Network !

Enjoy the clip and visit our story in the french version of Cisco website. 

Going to thenextweb conference in Amsterdam

An explosive Panel will be waiting for us !
I hope i will get a chance to present U.[lik] , we are in the arena ...
deliberation should be over at the end of the week.

Want to know everything about recommendation ... discover Paul Lamere's blog

I've reading Paul Lamere's blog, Duke Listens!, for the last couple of months. It's the smartest blog for who is interested by recommendation ((It used to be Greg Linden (who still has some great insights) but since he has retired from hard core development of findory ... he has slowed down)).

Lately, it's one of the blog from which I open the largest number of pages from my reader (I just screen articles in it and open the page so i can bookmark it - painful process!-). Paul Lamere is a researcher @ Sun. He works on the next generation of Intelligent Music Machine (And I am happy I don't fight in the same league as him). His blog is full of insights, reviews and academic news.

Today a great piece about ilike. Ilike is a plug-in for music recommendation (Paul call them remoras !!). I don't like ilike (they have a name too close from yours ;-)) so i did not gave them a lot of my time. Paul did. And here are his findings :

Last year I tried out iLike to see how well it worked.  I didn't like their 'similar artists'  recommendations too much.  I figured it was a cold-start problem.  Since they were a new site, they didn't have enough data to make good recommendations.  I tried iLike again this morning to see how well they improved after having 6 months of data.  I was surprised to learn that I was getting the exact same  recommendations as I got back in October.  It is as if they have not updated their similarity data since they have launched.  Some of these recommendations are horrendous.
Read the rest of the story

THANKS, that's precious feedback & insights.

The U.[likers] ... join

[Gypsy_eyes1982] an Italian User of U-lik has created a group on last.fm so we can also share our accounts there: it's the U.[likers] Group !!

I love the U.[likers] / I love last.fm so I am an happy dude !

I've taken a couple of minutes tonight, while listening to Ratatat in their club, to create a badge for my last.fm profile. We could do a lot better ...and I will but it's to show my appreciation back !

Thanks Gypsy !

No more Pandora for the European .... last.fm will rule

2006 was the year people benchmarked Pandora vs Last.fm
Something that will be impossible this year. Pandora will shut out non-US user tonight !
It's very sad, but it will force a market regulation since pandora will need to act & lobby to find a solution (global or local ...  pandora will therefore open the trail for followers, that's the only good side effect).   

Pandora operates under Section 114 of the DMCA, which gives them a clear process for paying rights holders in the U.S. There is no international equivalent of the DMCA, and so to operate legally in other countries, Pandora must sign deals with rights holders directly. That means separate deals with labels and publishers for each song, an extremely difficult and time consuming task.
The full news is avalable on techcrunch

Netflix new version of Watch Now based on Microsoft Silverlight

"Netflix is at Mix07 and they showed a very cool demo of their next version of Watch Now, which is built on Silverlight."     VOD is getting closer ! Good news.

Thay are also working on two people seeing the same movie and tchating in the same time !! And during the demo (just below) they ask one question when sharing the movie. In which movie do you like Sean connery more? I love Netflix... they are paving the way.

From Venture Chronicles

Venez soutenir u-lik ... votez pour nous !

U.[lik] participe au concours lancé par la Caixa.

Inscrivez vous ici ... et venez voter pour U-lik par là

Merci à tous, j'espère que la nouvelle version du site vous plait.

In the Information era Free is Priceless !!!

From John Battelle's Blog: 

From a source who is in a position to know, news that Google's DoubleClick competitor will be ... free for all to use. Like Analytics. Think about that for a moment. How did Microsoft kill Netscape? Yup, made the browser free. How will Google try to own the entire ad serving biz? Make it free. Why would they do this? Because the most valuable thing in the world of advertising is not the commodity , it's the information the commodity will provide.

Providing a scaled ad serving solution? Free.
Knowing the margins of every media and marketing company in the world? Priceless.

24.... the fastest rating ever !!

5000 ratings in 24 hours !
That's exactly what one of our user just did. The name of this Jack Bauer : Sphinx76.

When we first start designing U-lik, we wanted an interface that would speed up the rating process. We were bored by Amazon's one while working on a benchmark for recommendation engine. Try rating 100 things in amazon, it's quite painfull (and you cannot watch a video in the same time to jazz it up). Imagine that we had 4 different profiles to fill on various websites ....

U-lik is the place where you can rate at the speed of light (as soon as you have figure out how it works ;-) ) at this speed even an itunes plug-in is lagging !!

A new record is now available for breaking.
Congrats to Sphinx for putting the bar that high.