The Netflix Prize sought to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to enjoy a movie based on their movie preferences.
On September 21, 2009 we awarded the $1M Grand Prize to team “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”. Read about their algorithm, checkout team scores on the Leaderboard,
The FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced that the FCC was embracing four (4) open Internet Principles affirming that consumers
must be able to access the lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice, and attach non-harmful devices to the network. These four principles guide the FCC’s existing caseby-case enforcement of communications law.
In today’s speech, Chairman Genachowski proposed the addition of two new principles.
The first would prevent Internet access providers from discriminating against particular Internet content or applications, while allowing for reasonable network management.
The second principle would ensure that Internet access providers are transparent about the network management practices they implement.
Additionally the Chairman also proposed clarifying that all principles apply to all platforms that access the Internet. In addition the FCC announced a new website http://www.openinternet.gov/
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Credit Suisse has revisited its report on bandwidth expense on YouTube, its earlier report garnered criticism in the industry for not having included the effect of peering in the reduction of costs for YouTube. The earlier report estimated that Google would lose aprox $470M a year from its YouTube operations, the majority of the expense being attributed to bandwidth. In its updated report Credit Suisse has revised its estimates to include the cost savings Google achieves via peering to $300M down from $360M in the April estimates.
The report authored by Credit Suisse analysts Spencer Wang and Kenneth Sena is perhaps the first to look into the financial detail of the cost benefits of peering to the internet community.
