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Re:Failed Startup code graveyard on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:45AM (#9928577)
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Just a copy clone of Taptalk.
Re:Facebook is cloning Taptalk to compete with Snapchat on Sunday May 18, 2014 @03:11PM (#7763979)
I love Taptalk and use it around 50 times a day. Super fast and intimate asynchronous communication with close friends.
Re:How To Not Kill Your Retention on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:10AM (#6089277)
The last 2 paragraphs should answer your questions...
Re:How To Not Kill Your Retention on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @06:10AM (#6089119)
Yes, very few consumer products nowadays are that essential that people will struggle with hurdles like that
Agreed, but still interesting to see how they setup their fundraising.
Thanks, glad you're liking it. Gonna work on google login soon...
We structured the recommendations to be 100% personalized, so it might be that you have more a popular taste? If not please let me know as it should really recommend long tail content too. Could also be that our rated item set is still not very large. We just use FB Likes to let you rate those (to increase relevance for items we ask you to rate) but don't use FB Likes in the recommendations. Yeah def. gonna be some movies in your watchlist that you've seen already, we hope it creates trust in the recommendations and we made rating super fast - one person rated 1,600 movies in 90 mins :)
yeah that's a good idea
Thanks for the feedback. The rated item base for now is not yet large enough to give good recommendations to a large group of people. We'll be able to extend group size in the future.
We've been working on a custom engineered collaborative filtering algorithm not only to recommend movies for one person but for several to watch together, at the same time.

The site is written in Java, using Tapestry 5 & jQuery. Persistence via MongoDB.

We're still in closed beta but would love to get feedback before launching.

Yeah that's a good point. We're gonna work on that, for now we just wanted to test the group recommendations...
haha they do look similar.

Supposed to be remote controls...

Re:The best way to learn something? Teach it. on Friday April 20, 2012 @02:41AM (#3866774)
I once heard about 3 levels of knowledge: 1. Understanding 2. Remembering 3. Being able to teach