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New Amazon Patents on Content Personalization
theodp writes "Defending its decision to concoct recommendations to steer customers to buy items at Amazon's new Apparel Store, a spokeswoman said Amazon "felt it would be evident to people that since the store was so new, we wouldn't have the transaction history to create database similarities." But in this just-published patent applicaton, Amazon earlier told the USPTO it's able to use product viewing histories to determine the similarity or relatedness between products for which little or no purchase history data exists. So which claim should you believe?"
It has been a slow past 24 hours for Slashdot.
As such, I predict one of the following topics will be in the news stories for today...
New Phrack Issue #60
Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor
Techies Working for Peanuts
The Year in Technology
To the Moon and Beyond
Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
Swiftech 8500 Watercooling Kit Review
New Moon of Jupiter Discovered
16x DVD-R Drives Planned for 2004
Medical Briefcase For In-Flight Patient Evaluation
Melting Away Ice Hazards
It's about time for a Dupe, eh?