This was the very first time I put a story for inclusion in Slashdot home page, and it actually ended up on the Slashdot home page!
I first learnt about the Netflix prize in this book, which I was reading while researching on how to develop recommendation algorithm by correlating behaviour patterns of users (still on the drawing board for it though).Managed to find this story on wired…and submitted on slashdot…and 36 hours later someone tells me its on the homepage! Here it is, my moment of fame on the interwebs :D-
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/2348257

PS: s1d is me