Comments on: Loomia Partners With Wall Street Journal http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/ Startup and Technology News Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: bdb http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1505641 bdb Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:54:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1505641 Great string, the only reason left to come.....just kidding. Interesting to see the product managers/ developers, and CEOs weigh in on the topic specifically. There must be good competition in this space. @todd, nice comp intel, but........................................Put-up or shut-up, don't bother with the mkt song and dance. Jean's group obviously put-up and delivered. Disclosure- I know nothing about this space or the players. Great opportunity to develop niche offerings. Great string, the only reason left to come…..just kidding.

Interesting to see the product managers/ developers, and CEOs weigh in on the topic specifically. There must be good competition in this space.

@todd, nice comp intel, but………………………………….Put-up or shut-up, don’t bother with the mkt song and dance. Jean’s group obviously put-up and delivered.

Disclosure- I know nothing about this space or the players. Great opportunity to develop niche offerings.

]]> By: Concrete Stain http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1501363 Concrete Stain Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:08:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1501363 how does this compare with "sphere it" or whatever. how does this compare with “sphere it” or whatever.

]]> By: Micha http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1500985 Micha Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:43:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1500985 I am sorry that Mike forgot to mention <a href="”http://spotback.com/”" rel="nofollow">Spotback</a> in this list. Apart for being an awesome rating and recommendation engine, it integrates extremely well with all major blogging platforms (check out our <a href="”http://spotback.com/wp-plugin/about”" rel="nofollow">WordPress plugin</a> for example). Spotback is also content type independent, which means that it is working very well with photos and videos and not just with text. Visit our site or contact us to learn more about how Spotback can work for your service (feedback (at) spotback dot com). Thanks, Micha CEO Spotback.com I am sorry that Mike forgot to mention Spotback in this list.
Apart for being an awesome rating and recommendation engine, it integrates extremely well with all major blogging platforms (check out our WordPress plugin for example).
Spotback is also content type independent, which means that it is working very well with photos and videos and not just with text.

Visit our site or contact us to learn more about how Spotback can work for your service (feedback (at) spotback dot com).

Thanks,

Micha
CEO
Spotback.com

]]> By: todd sawicki http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499835 todd sawicki Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:20:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499835 @Jean - David and Francis (co-founders and the lead product and dev guy at the company) actually looked at the netflix challenge. They decided to pass because there are some fundamental flaws in the way netflix wants to approach the problem from David and Francis's perspective. We're working on a blog post that will detail our netflix reaction. I look forward to seeing criteo around. @Jean - David and Francis (co-founders and the lead product and dev guy at the company) actually looked at the netflix challenge. They decided to pass because there are some fundamental flaws in the way netflix wants to approach the problem from David and Francis’s perspective. We’re working on a blog post that will detail our netflix reaction. I look forward to seeing criteo around.

]]> By: Jean-Baptiste http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499770 Jean-Baptiste Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:56:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499770 Nice client for Loomia indeed. Congratulation! As far as I know, neither Loomia, nor Aggregate Knowledge have participated into the Netflix Prize. As it takes only a couple of hours to summit a set of predictions, I wonder why they did not give a try. Criteo (www.criteo.com) did participate. We managed to join the leaderboard in a couple of days, beating Netflix own engine by 5% in accuracy. As a matter of fact, we were surprised to see none of our competitors capable of similar performance (including also Choicestream, BayNote and Cleverset). This "shyness" is deeply regrettable. More than 16,000 teams have participated into Netflix Prize. It would have been a great way to compare accuracy of recommendation providers... Disclosure: I'm the CEO of Criteo ;-) Nice client for Loomia indeed. Congratulation!
As far as I know, neither Loomia, nor Aggregate Knowledge have participated into the Netflix Prize. As it takes only a couple of hours to summit a set of predictions, I wonder why they did not give a try.
Criteo (www.criteo.com) did participate. We managed to join the leaderboard in a couple of days, beating Netflix own engine by 5% in accuracy.
As a matter of fact, we were surprised to see none of our competitors capable of similar performance (including also Choicestream, BayNote and Cleverset).
This “shyness” is deeply regrettable. More than 16,000 teams have participated into Netflix Prize. It would have been a great way to compare accuracy of recommendation providers…
Disclosure: I’m the CEO of Criteo ;-)

]]> By: Rex Dixon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499761 Rex Dixon Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:30:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499761 @Todd - Sounds great about Loomia. I was just trying to point out to Mike that there are others such as - Criteo - doing the recommendation thing. I just wanted to make sure that we weren't "forgotten". Hit me up in e-mail if you'd like to talk further. Rex @Todd - Sounds great about Loomia. I was just trying to point out to Mike that there are others such as - Criteo - doing the recommendation thing. I just wanted to make sure that we weren’t “forgotten”.

Hit me up in e-mail if you’d like to talk further.

Rex

]]> By: Sameer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499715 Sameer Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:29:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499715 It is not hard problem to solve. It is not hard problem to solve.

]]> By: todd sawicki http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499268 todd sawicki Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:10:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499268 Thanks for the props for Loomia Mike. As noted the math and tech behind good recommendations is pretty difficult work. What's interesting is that the few companies in the space are all taking different approaches to the math and tech. We obviously feel we have the best approach. @Rex - Loomia actually offers a number of different recommendation types - the WSJ is just using one for now. Loomia offers Personal Recommendations (people to people), Similar Items (what the WSJ is using), and Checkout/Session Recommendations (people to item). @Anthony - Correct - anyone can get started for free and go from there. We're focused only on charging for value we deliver to our customers. @Wayne - cool use of Loomia Recommendations. @Ted - Thanks for the kind words. David, Francis and the rest of the guys are going great work. @Tom - Thanks - Great blog and I think you'll be impressed with where things go from here for Loomia. @Jason - I think the challenge is they came from the social search space (where they compete with Endeca, FAST, etc.). @Brian - We're actually very familiar with the guys at AK - turns out for instance I know the founders from prior lives. @Venture - Sphere is coming from a search perspective - as you can see WSJ is actually using both them and Loomia. Thanks for the props for Loomia Mike. As noted the math and tech behind good recommendations is pretty difficult work. What’s interesting is that the few companies in the space are all taking different approaches to the math and tech. We obviously feel we have the best approach.

@Rex - Loomia actually offers a number of different recommendation types - the WSJ is just using one for now. Loomia offers Personal Recommendations (people to people), Similar Items (what the WSJ is using), and Checkout/Session Recommendations (people to item).

@Anthony - Correct - anyone can get started for free and go from there. We’re focused only on charging for value we deliver to our customers.

@Wayne - cool use of Loomia Recommendations.

@Ted - Thanks for the kind words. David, Francis and the rest of the guys are going great work.

@Tom - Thanks - Great blog and I think you’ll be impressed with where things go from here for Loomia.

@Jason - I think the challenge is they came from the social search space (where they compete with Endeca, FAST, etc.).

@Brian - We’re actually very familiar with the guys at AK - turns out for instance I know the founders from prior lives.

@Venture - Sphere is coming from a search perspective - as you can see WSJ is actually using both them and Loomia.

]]> By: lemon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499254 lemon Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:56:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499254 I think so I think so

]]> By: ventureblogalist http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499029 ventureblogalist Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:52:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499029 hmm...maybe not. hmm…maybe not.

]]> By: ventureblogalist http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499026 ventureblogalist Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:48:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499026 I think sphere is competitor too. It does something different to recommend content, but at end of day it is competing for real estate with loomia and gang. I think sphere is competitor too. It does something different to recommend content, but at end of day it is competing for real estate with loomia and gang.

]]> By: Sam Donaldson http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499025 Sam Donaldson Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:45:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1499025 Test from iphone Test from iphone

]]> By: Omg my friend just email me this http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498996 Omg my friend just email me this Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:51:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498996 This is weird cat and dog style. Check out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hFKhEWabH8&watch_response This is weird cat and dog style. Check out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....h_response

]]> By: Boris Epstein http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498760 Boris Epstein Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:04:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498760 Congrats Loomia. If you would like me to infiltrate Aggregate Knowledge and headhunt some of their folks for you, it would be my pleasure. Boris www.bincsearch.com Congrats Loomia. If you would like me to infiltrate Aggregate Knowledge and headhunt some of their folks for you, it would be my pleasure.

Boris
http://www.bincsearch.com

]]> By: Jason Billingsley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498749 Jason Billingsley Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:43:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498749 Baynote: http://www.baynote.com seems to get left out of this list way too often. They are well funded with the Stanford background (these are smart folks). They have an unnamed client larger than any of their competitors. Business 2.0 just did a piece on recommendation engines and also looked over Baynote - mistake. *I do not work for them. Baynote: http://www.baynote.com seems to get left out of this list way too often. They are well funded with the Stanford background (these are smart folks). They have an unnamed client larger than any of their competitors. Business 2.0 just did a piece on recommendation engines and also looked over Baynote - mistake. *I do not work for them.

]]> By: Tom Printy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498733 Tom Printy Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:26:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498733 This is Good News for the Loomia team. There are quite a fe companies who are competing in this space. I am following recommender systems with some interest and am attempting to keep track of them on my blog at http://www.tomprinty.com/commercial-recommender-systems/ I have been involved wth recommender systems since 2004 could this be the year they really take off? This is Good News for the Loomia team. There are quite a fe companies who are competing in this space. I am following recommender systems with some interest and am attempting to keep track of them on my blog at http://www.tomprinty.com/comme.....r-systems/

I have been involved wth recommender systems since 2004 could this be the year they really take off?

]]> By: Ted Rheingold http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498680 Ted Rheingold Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:13:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498680 The Loomia team is a bunch of seriously brilliant engineers and entrpreneurs. Big congrats to them. They deserve it. The Loomia team is a bunch of seriously brilliant engineers and entrpreneurs.

Big congrats to them. They deserve it.

]]> By: Hey, mike where's the hype? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498676 Hey, mike where's the hype? Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:04:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498676 Hey, mike since you cover aussie search engine two months ago. He's everywhere on search news. What happen to mylivesearch.com? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/look-out-google-here-come-the-aussies/ Are they suppose to release due date? Hey, mike since you cover aussie search engine two months ago. He’s everywhere on search news. What happen to mylivesearch.com?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....e-aussies/

Are they suppose to release due date?

]]> By: Rob Rustad http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498660 Rob Rustad Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:49:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498660 Hi Mike. Hi Rex. Nik, it is a difficult problem to solve. Collarity provides the same kind of "users who liked this, also liked this" widgets, plus refined user-driven site search (based on anonymous visitor activity), tagclouds, and there are no set-up/ongoing fees for websites willing to share in the incremental advertising revenue created. Fox Interactive TV Stations (example: http://www.myfoxny.com) and Pearson Education (http://www.infoplease.com/index.html) are both using the service. Hi Mike. Hi Rex. Nik, it is a difficult problem to solve. Collarity provides the same kind of “users who liked this, also liked this” widgets, plus refined user-driven site search (based on anonymous visitor activity), tagclouds, and there are no set-up/ongoing fees for websites willing to share in the incremental advertising revenue created. Fox Interactive TV Stations (example: http://www.myfoxny.com) and Pearson Education (http://www.infoplease.com/index.html) are both using the service.

]]> By: Nik Cubrilovic http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498577 Nik Cubrilovic Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:03:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498577 There are not many of them because it is a hard problem to solve (well) There are not many of them because it is a hard problem to solve (well)

]]> By: wayne lambright http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498493 wayne lambright Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:53:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498493 Chris, you would think there are a bunch of programs like this; however there are not, Thus the significance of Loomia. I use the Loomia to give people restaurant recommendations based on our 18,000-review base. You can see an example with the restaurant [Home on Market] http://sf.tastyr.com/rd.asp?r=32 look to the right below the skyscraper banner; you’ll see the recommendations. Chris, you would think there are a bunch of programs like this; however there are not, Thus the significance of Loomia. I use the Loomia to give people restaurant recommendations based on our 18,000-review base. You can see an example with the restaurant [Home on Market] http://sf.tastyr.com/rd.asp?r=32 look to the right below the skyscraper banner; you’ll see the recommendations.

]]> By: Rex Dixon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498489 Rex Dixon Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:50:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498489 Mike - See comment one minute before yours - Criteo dude! ;) - Rex Mike - See comment one minute before yours - Criteo dude! ;) - Rex

]]> By: Anthony http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498487 Anthony Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:46:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498487 Yeah, but these guys dont charge you an arm and a leg for it. Yeah, but these guys dont charge you an arm and a leg for it.

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498485 Michael Arrington Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:43:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498485 Chris - no, as far as I know, just Loomia and AG. It's important because it's an easy way for sites to generate sales and/or page views with little risk. Chris - no, as far as I know, just Loomia and AG. It’s important because it’s an easy way for sites to generate sales and/or page views with little risk.

]]> By: Rex Dixon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498482 Rex Dixon Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:42:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/14/loomia-partners-with-wall-street-journal/#comment-1498482 Yes, there are other places that do recommendation. The company I work for does the same thing - Criteo. They are out of Paris, France. Their recommendation engine works really well. In fact, they hit up the blogosphere with their widget to spread the word. I'd like to see Mike or Duncan do an article on Criteo. I'd really like to see Mike install the Criteo Widget. :) Rex Yes, there are other places that do recommendation. The company I work for does the same thing - Criteo. They are out of Paris, France. Their recommendation engine works really well. In fact, they hit up the blogosphere with their widget to spread the word.

I’d like to see Mike or Duncan do an article on Criteo. I’d really like to see Mike install the Criteo Widget. :)

Rex

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