Firefly
Posted at 3:15pm on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006Thinking about the previous post about Amazon got me to thinking about Firefly (again). For some reason I had it in my head that they had been bought by Amazon and had formed the basis of the Amazon recommendations engine. Turns out that good old Wikipedia has a page about them, like they have for every other subject under the sun. Looks like they were in fact bought by Microsoft.
A few of us were avid users. My continued interest in recommendations engines (collaborative filtering, whatever) still harks back to that as a benchmark. Strange it’s 10 years ago now.
