Netflix Needs Help, Altoids Get Shot, Walkman Saves Ears

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– The Bay Area Interactive Group has launched its second season of its Big Sessions podcast with industry guru interviews.

– Netflix doesn’t know how to improve its movie recommendation feature but it thinks there are people out there that can so the movie rental company is offering $1 million to anyone who can improve accuracy by 10 percent.

– Tokion’s Fourth Annual Creativity Now Confernce will be talking place October 14 and 15 at Cooper Union in New York City.

– Here’s a litte shoot the Altoids out of the sky timewaster for you.

– To promote the Sony Walkman (they still make that?) in Italy, Ebola Industries created a site, SaveYourEars, on which videos show people singing horribly out of tune in concert presumably to show using a Walkman will prevent youo from hearing this badness. We’re not entirely sure since the site’s in Italian.

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