Fetchmemovies Recommendations
Now that the Fetchmemovies cat is out of the bag, I can finally talk about the work that has been my main focus for the last couple of months.

Earlier this year, we inked a deal with Telstra to provide a new recommendations engine and community features to the most excellent DVD rental service Fetchmemovies. Over the last couple of months we've been implementing bits and pieces of it with a few more pieces to go before we are fully running the recommendations and personalisation features.

Its similar to work I have done previously but is different in that it is the pinnacle of the development I have been involved with, integrating the best features and lots of learning to make a system that is tuned very very nicely (personalised recommendations in under 100ms, total CPU on the very modest box at under 8% max), runs all my patented data mining algorithms every night and provides a totally kick arse content management system for their editorial and marketing staff.

All in all I'm very proud of the work I've done and the results we're already seeing.

Do yourself a favor and sign up for the service. Its cost effective and a great way to see lots of new interesting and excellently recommended DVDs.