On Oct 1, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Sean Owen wrote: > Yes I know (directly) of 5 companies using Mahout for recommenders, and only > 1 allows it to be mentioned -- Mippin. There are of course more that aren't > known to me.
Likewise, recommenders have the most usage, which makes sense b/c it's the most mature at this point. I also know of one large online music retailer that uses some of our other stuff for recommendations, but... Twitter has hinted at usage at various conferences (NoSQLEU, I believe) and the Hadoop World interview Kevin Weil did makes a point of saying they employ a Mahout committer, i.e. Jake. (http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/09/twitter-analytics-lead-kevin-weil-and-a-presenter-at-hadoop-world-interviewed/). Perhaps his talk at HW will shed some light on it. Based on my inbox, I know the job requests for it are definitely picking up as well. > > In several cases, the people who built the system don't work directly for > the company. They're fine with mentioning it, but it's not really their > place or worth their time to push on the ultimate company for clearance. > We should get a "Powered By" logo up on our site for people to use. > There are a number of interesting names on the @mahout.apache.org mailing > lists... Indeed. > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm working on a few... I know they are out there, as they email in >>> private. >> >> Same here: One huge fear that people seem to have is to reveal the >> inner workings of their system not only to the public but also to >> potential competitors by putting their name on our list. >> >> Isabel >> >> -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://lucenerevolution.org Apache Lucene/Solr Conference, Boston Oct 7-8
