Anyone Up For A Flick?
| Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 | --jr |
The nice thing about writing this blog is that I get to learn new cool things too. (One might wonder if perhaps that was the ulterior motive, but I digress.) One such new cool thing I found out about today was Personalized Recommendations for Y!Movies called My Movies. At first, I thought, "oh, so it's like Netflix where you rate movies", but it's actually more than just that.
Much like Netflix, you can rate and review movies and it builds a profile of various movie recommendations. Where things get different, though, are that this is definitely more outward facing. You can create one or more lists of movies (like Y!Shopping lists) Plus, not only are your recommendations used to pick upcoming theater movie suggestions, but they are also used to highlight upcoming TV movies you might like. And if you've got Tivo integration, that there friends is why people need bigger disks for those things.
Granted, there's a bunch of stuff I'd love to have that I can't seem to find:
- RSS feeds for movie lists
Hey, I'd love to subscribe to folks movie lists. My friends are excellent critics. - Is it good or did you just like it?
Ok, this is a bit more esoteric. I love horrible movies like Eegah! and Manos, Hands of Fate, which are by no stretch of the imagination "good". I'd love to mark a film as an influence but still give it the D or F it so richly deserves. - Favorite/Hated Genres
Yeah, so most of my highly rated movies tend to be from given genres, but i'd love to be able to specify "Don't show me anything from this". Actually, I'd love to have something similar to what Y!Music does (You can ban a genre, record, artist or just a song). Doing that for a studio, director, or actor would be great.
Still, a darn cool little service.
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Hrrrrm…okay, I guess you went into slightly more detail (and you included the bit about Movie Lists), but this post is pretty darn similar to my older post about movie recommendations (http://ycoolthing.com/archives/56). :D Have you been paying attention to the Twiki? :P
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:19 am
Darn it! i KNEW I heard about this somewhere… (Let me go update the twiki to mark it as posted. Twice. *mumble*)
February 16th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
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