Everyone heard about the Netflix Prize . The person or team to improve their recommendation system by certain requirements gets a Million bucks. Sounds great?

Well, we run Criticker:

We’ve always been a two-man team, without any funding or venture capital money, and completely unaffiliated with any other site. And couple of our users suggested to take part in the Netflix Prize. We looked into it and read their T&C and decided to sooo not take part. Since everything you submit to Netflix Prize goes over in their possession.

So 1 Millions sounds good but at the end Netflix paid $1 an hour in development and probably gained resources not related to make their recommendations better.

The New York Times has an interesting article – stating that a almost Netflix Prize winner has regrets.

We are very happy that we stood away from it and that we got to keep our simple but very effective movie recommendation algorithm.

Give us a try: Criticker

Not too long ago we released a new feature on our Movie Recommendation Site: Criticker which allows 2 people to receive movie recommendations both like. Perfect for set of 2 people not being able to decide what movie to watch.

In order to use this feature you have to sign up an account ( each person one account) with Criticker and start ranking a bunch of movies (the more the better). Then find your friends profile page and add him as a Kumple (buddy). Then you will be able to generate recommendations within your Kumpel Page. Just pick your friend from the drop down menu within the Joint Recommendation box and voilà … no more fights about what movie to watch.

Sounds more complicated than it actually is.

More info: Joint Recommendations

Related: Movie Blog – Movie Forum

Most of you already know of our movie recommendation engine Criticker. We have been working on that page for over 3 years now and we needed a little, fun, mental health break.

So we came up with LISTS. Which let’s you rank and create all kind of lists.

For example this one ( I just created it a second ago ) …. Your favorite Gadget blog:

I snuck Random Good Stuff into it, even though it is not a true gadget blog , sorry ! Won’t be ranking this list since I don’t want to mess with my good relationships with these blogs. I just put it this way – the more these blogs link to Random Good Stuff the more I like them.

Feel like ranking these blogs? Just visit: Your Favorite Gadget Blog on LISTS

LISTS is fun and easy to use. Your can just set up a list with who is the best cook in your family and invite the rest of the gang to order it. Any kind of list is possible.

Head over to lists and check it out.

Also, feel free to stumble, digg or reddit this new sweet page in case you think it’s worth it. Every little helps.

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