Tag Archives: Darren Vengroff
The Inspiration Behind RecLab: Don’t Bring the Data to the Code, Bring the Code to the Data
Last fall I had the pleasure of visiting Barcelona, one of my favorite cities on earth. It normally wouldn’t take much beyond the great Catalan food and wine to entice me to visit, but in this case there was an even more compelling reason to visit—to participate in the ACM Recommender Systems conference and spend … Continue Reading
MarketingWeek— “How Facebook preferences can help sales – not just for Amazon”
by Darren Vengroff, chief scientist, RichRelevance Amazon and Facebook made headlines with the new application that allows shoppers to receive product recommendations based on their Facebook preferences (“Likes”). Combining accounts with an application such as this, whether specific to Amazon or to other retailers, has the potential to create a compelling hybrid of social networking … Continue Reading
Know Thy Shopper: Inside the RichRelevance Core Platform
Feature-richness in the ecommerce space has now become critical for today’s sophisticated shopper, who is presented with a multitude of sites that they can enter and abandon with mere clicks of a mouse. When an online shopper has a good first experience with a website, sixty percent of the time he/she will return to that … Continue Reading
The Online Shopper’s Need For Speed
June 25, 2009 will be remembered in many memories as the day Michael Jackson died, but for those of us working the front lines of Internet infrastructure June 25, 2009 will be the day our servers and the patience of millions of users was tested with the news of Michael Jackson’s death. Here at RichRelevance … Continue Reading
Why IT infrastructure and planning is mission critical
“Beginning at approximately 11:18 PM on July 2nd and continuing through the present time Fisher Plaza experienced a significant power event that required all power systems including street power, UPS, and Generator power to be completely shut down in Plaza East.” So begins a message on the website of AdHost, an IT hosting provider which … Continue Reading