http://foolswisdom.com/5-star-netflix/ A fool and his blog are soon parted. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-20304 http://foolswisdom.com/5-star-netflix/comment-page-1/#comment-10209 Sean Kane Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:20:30 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/5-star-netflix/#comment-10209 Fair Enough. I guess it does sound a little grandiose on the surface :). The point I make in the presentation is not that we invented 5-star rating, those have been around forever. The point has to do with the use of the 204 server response to have a cross-browser refreshless-update on the website back in 1999. As far as anyone here knows, we were the first to use that type of widget in a web rating system. Fair Enough. I guess it does sound a little grandiose on the surface . The point I make in the presentation is not that we invented 5-star rating, those have been around forever. The point has to do with the use of the 204 server response to have a cross-browser refreshless-update on the website back in 1999. As far as anyone here knows, we were the first to use that type of widget in a web rating system.

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