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best $7K spent: http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/21/impermium/ "Rather than use an internal data services team, the company turned to Kaggle, a startup that hosts data-driven competitions. From around the world, statisticians competed to build a tool that combines machine learning and natural language processing to root out malicious commentary. The winner received $7,000 — their solution was the most accurate with a f…
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But perhaps not a business partner in it for the long term that they might have hoped for.
when I buy a service I don't expect a business partner. I'm not sure why other people do -- anyone got some good reading on this (admittedly nebulous) topic?
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so what exactly did they do?
Livefyre was one of their early users. Every comment submitted into any comment widget hosted by Livefyre was sent over to Impermium for spam analysis. Impermium had a pretty cool 2 phase process where they'd give you a rough spam score within seconds and then a more accurate score within minutes. Livefyre had some sophisticated behavior as a result. Comments were always pushed live to other page viewers immediately…