Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/25/google-to-acquire-fflick-for-10-million/

by lachyg • 16 years ago

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bpeters• 16 years ago

Money flows like wine in the valley

lachyg• 16 years ago

Agreed. I thought this was crazy, must be a talent acquisition.

dotcoma• 16 years ago

plus, you see the movies your friends, or people you just follow, like, not movies that people who have a similar taste for movies like...

robryan• 16 years ago

Yeah, good fit, plenty of sentiment analysis to be done at Google. I guess when you have as much money as they do you can afford this kind of outlay to avoid some of the hit and miss of hiring the positions normally.

barranger• 16 years ago

I'm not so sure.

They probably make a good amount through both ad revenue and referrals from Fandango, not enough to justify 10 million, but they've said a few times now that Movies are just the first of many verticals that they are looking at.

stefanobernardi• 16 years ago

On another note, are those TC interstitials new? AOL is really messing up with them.

sewerhorse• 16 years ago

Thank god for google reader.

jazzychad• 16 years ago

No way... I should have kept FlixPulse alive for a bit longer. Oh well, execution and all that...

minalecs• 16 years ago

From what I can figure out the sentiment analysis engine, looks through the people you're following on twitter and sees what movies they've talked about, and compares that against movie ratings and possibly overall number of tweets, to recommend you a movie ? Anyone else have any other insights.

Tichy2• 16 years ago

I think it simply matches tweets with movie titles. For example in my timeline somebody is saying "What's I'm getting from @t's TRON tweets is that I should skip the movie and instead play the game and read the graphic novel.", which fflick translates (wrongly) to the movie "play the game".

Tichy2• 16 years ago

I like it, and I wonder how it works? I mean how can it be so fast? Do you think they have access to the Firehose? My results were pretty instants, and I think it would have taken longer to get all the tweets of all the people I follow from Twitter.

antidaily• 16 years ago

Just noticed that - it's definitely faster than I expected. No spinner.gif waiting.

thisisblurry• 16 years ago

I was really hoping that that headline said Flickr when I first glanced at it.

loewenskind• 16 years ago

Why on earth would you want Flickr to be bought by Google? Do you want one public company to own the whole Internet?

elvirs3• 16 years ago

congrats to Kevin Rose :)

mdwrigh23• 16 years ago

The team is comprised of ex-Digg staff, not Kevin Rose himself.

marchustvedt• 16 years ago

While it doesn't list it in crunchbase, I believe Kevin is an angel on this one

elvirs3• 16 years ago

I know that, you did not notice the sarcasm, congrats to Kevin Rose for not managing to keep talented people in Digg.

Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million

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