Abstract: A system for generating ambient conditions to improve sleep comprises an ambient condition controller. The ambient condition controller may control a light, a speaker, and multiple diffusers. The system may include a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to implement a sleep program. The sleep program may cause the ambient condition controller to be configured in a variety of states over a period of time.

Abstract: A method of operating a recommendation system comprises presenting a plurality of subscribed streaming media item recommendations to a user based on known user preferences. The subscribed streaming media item recommendations include streaming media items from at least one subscribed streaming media service, from a plurality of available streaming media services. An advertisement is presented for an unsubscribed streaming media service to which the user does not subscribe, from the plurality of available streaming media services. The advertisement comprises a plurality of streaming media items available from the unsubscribed streaming media service, based on known user preferences and presented in a format substantially similar to a format of the presented subscribed streaming media item recommendations.

Abstract: A method of providing multi-person media item recommendations comprises receiving media preference information for a plurality of users, and generating a composite media recommendation score for a plurality of media items for a specified group of at least two of the plurality of users using the media preference information for the two or more users for the plurality of media items. A media recommendation is provided for the specified group of at least two of the plurality of users based on the generated composite media recommendation scores for the plurality of media items for the specified at least two of the plurality of users.