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Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million
- elvirs 16y agocongrats to Kevin Rose :)
- mdwrigh2 16y agoThe team is comprised of ex-Digg staff, not Kevin Rose himself.
- marchustvedt 16y agoWhile it doesn't list it in crunchbase, I believe Kevin is an angel on this one
- elvirs 16y agoI know that, you did not notice the sarcasm, congrats to Kevin Rose for not managing to keep talented people in Digg.
- mdwrigh2 16y agoWhoops! Sorry, I didn't notice the sarcasm.
- bpeters 16y agoMoney flows like wine in the valley
- lachyg 16y agoAgreed. I thought this was crazy, must be a talent acquisition.
- dotcoma 16y agoplus, you see the movies your friends, or people you just follow, like, not movies that people who have a similar taste for movies like...
- robryan 16y agoYeah, good fit, plenty of sentiment analysis to be done at Google. I guess when you have as much money as they do you can afford this kind of outlay to avoid some of the hit and miss of hiring the positions normally.
- barranger 16y agoI'm not so sure. They probably make a good amount through both ad revenue and referrals from Fandango, not enough to justify 10 million, but they've said a few times now that Movies are just the first of many verticals that they are looking at.
- stefanobernardi 16y agoOn another note, are those TC interstitials new? AOL is really messing up with them.
- sewerhorse 16y agoThank god for google reader.
- jazzychad 16y agoNo way... I should have kept FlixPulse alive for a bit longer. Oh well, execution and all that...
- minalecs 16y agoFrom what I can figure out the sentiment analysis engine, looks through the people you're following on twitter and sees what movies they've talked about, and compares that against movie ratings and possibly overall number of tweets, to recommend you a movie ? Anyone else have any other insights.
- Tichy 16y agoI think it simply matches tweets with movie titles. For example in my timeline somebody is saying "What's I'm getting from @t's TRON tweets is that I should skip the movie and instead play the game and read the graphic novel.", which fflick translates (wrongly) to the movie "play the game".
- Tichy 16y agoI like it, and I wonder how it works? I mean how can it be so fast? Do you think they have access to the Firehose? My results were pretty instants, and I think it would have taken longer to get all the tweets of all the people I follow from Twitter.
- antidaily 16y agoJust noticed that - it's definitely faster than I expected. No spinner.gif waiting.
- thisisblurry 16y agoI was really hoping that that headline said Flickr when I first glanced at it.
- loewenskind 16y agoWhy on earth would you want Flickr to be bought by Google? Do you want one public company to own the whole Internet?