{"id":230,"date":"2009-07-28T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=230"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:46:20","slug":"netflix-competitors-learn-the-power-of-teamwork-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/07\/28\/netflix-competitors-learn-the-power-of-teamwork-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/technology\/internet\/28netflix.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/technology\/internet\/28netflix.html<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest lesson learned, according to members of the two top teams, was the power of collaboration. It was not a single insight, algorithm or concept that allowed both teams to surpass the goal <a href=\"http:\/\/netflixprize.com\">Netflix<\/a>,&#8230;&#8230;Instead, they say, the formula for success was to bring together people with complementary skills and combine different methods of problem-solving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sad thing is that somebody had to <a href=\"http:\/\/netflixprize.com\/\">put up a million bucks<\/a> to figure that out.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/technology\/internet\/28netflix.html The biggest lesson learned, according to members of the two top teams, was the power of collaboration. It was not a single insight, algorithm or concept that allowed both teams to surpass the goal Netflix,&#8230;&#8230;Instead, they say, the formula for success was to bring together people with complementary skills and combine different methods of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/07\/28\/netflix-competitors-learn-the-power-of-teamwork-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tech","tag-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}