Netflix in it's attempt to move more to a hybrid social site introduced the concept of "faves" a little while back. This is essentially a watered down "friend". Where as a "friend" is probably someone you know in real life, and therefore netflix allows you to see basically all the information they can see about themselves, a "fave" is someone you probably don't know. Therefore you can only see limited information about them such as 5-star rated movies, and genres or actors they watch a lot of.
Each potential "fave" has a similarity percentage ("friends" have a percentage as well) based on some netflix algorithm which is a quick way to see (hey!) how similar your movie watching tastes are. So as I sometimes do I was on one of the netflix pages where you can see potential "faves" and saw a person with an 86% similarity percentage; which is very high. In fact this would be the highest of any "fave" similarity percentage I've seen yet. With all this "friends"and "faves" stuff netflix also introduced user names which if you don't choose one will be auto-generated for you from as far as I can tell your first and last initial, and then a string of digits. This specific "fave" (who by the way also had Kevin Spacey as the most watched actor...my favorite actor) had an auto-generated user name of "MZ 123456". (Yeah I changed the digits).
SPOOKY!!!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Type O Positive
I'm always impressed by so-called "creative types" (because I am not one of them). With the limitless power of the internet any artist can get their message out through various means such as shirts, music, comics and both of these.
Not only are the videos fantastic in itself, but they used scenes from several of my favorite movies. There are even more on YouTube as well if you decide to look!
Not only are the videos fantastic in itself, but they used scenes from several of my favorite movies. There are even more on YouTube as well if you decide to look!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Faux St. Patty's Day
On this technically non St. Patty's Day I present my list of music you should have listened to today while drinking your Guinness (non U2 division).
Dropkick Murphys - my favorite irish punk band
The Pogues - it seems every year they play St. Patty's Day in NYC and every year I forget
Flogging Molly - similar to Dropkick Murphy's
Black 47 - Only because I've seen them at Shea Stadium more than once without even knowing who they were! Not too bad.
Dropkick Murphys - my favorite irish punk band
The Pogues - it seems every year they play St. Patty's Day in NYC and every year I forget
Flogging Molly - similar to Dropkick Murphy's
Black 47 - Only because I've seen them at Shea Stadium more than once without even knowing who they were! Not too bad.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)