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- Netflix to stream movies to Macs using Silverlight
  Posted by Jeff from Mac News Network
  Netflix, the online movie rental service, is launching Mac support for internet streaming movies utilizing Microsoft's Silverlight, a web-browser plug-in that features animation and audio-video capabilities similar to Adobe's Flash software.
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- Netflix Prize Still Awaits a Movie Seer
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  About 18,000 teams from more than 150 countries — using ideas from machine learning, neural networks, collaborative filtering and data mining — have submitted more than 12,000 sets of guesses. And the improvement level to Netflix’s rating system is now at 7.42 percent.
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- Microsoft Fails to Improve Board Diversity, Appoints Another White Male
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Microsoft's board consists of nine men and one woman: Reed Hastings, founder, chairman and chief executive of Netflix, the DVD-by-mail video-rental service, is joining the 10-member board representing Microsoft shareholders, the company announced Monday.
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- Right wing thinktank offers $10,000 to dispute climate study
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  And NetfFlix is offering a million dollar prize to outdo their movie recommendation scheme. Shows how valuable the right wing thinks disputing climate change is. If they were really serious, they'd pony up... I think they have their money on gay marriage.
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- Netflix unveils instant viewing - for Windows only
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Death on arrival: "Another major drawback: the instant-viewing system only works on personal computers and laptops equipped with a high-speed Internet connection and Microsoft's Windows operating system."
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rhoehn comments on:
Netflix unveils instant viewing - for Windows only

Umm, its an applet, so why the hell won’t it run on any devices that supports the proper JVM? Anyone know what the limitation is?

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6:16 pm 1/17/07
Jon comments on:
Netflix unveils instant viewing - for Windows only

Not sure I buy into the idea that something is doomed just because it’s Windows-only (for now).

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9:23 pm 1/16/07

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