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Nanocrowd
Overview
Nanocrowd is a movie recommendation service. It does one thing very well: generate a list of suggested movies. It's usefulness depends on the relevance of suggestions. It uses nanogenres in its recommendation engine. The service requires no login, just go ahead and put in your film of choice. From here you choose a nanogenre to give you a custom-generated list of movie suggestions. From initial use of the different nanogenres the lists are reliable, relevant while also throwing up some useful surprises. The different nanogenres deliver a variety of lists. Nanogenres are developed from analysis of movie reviews and other sources. Where Nanocrowd is weak is in its lack of options for search, for example genre, actor. Without an option to login there are no save options. July 2009.
Nanocrowd
Conclusions
A surprisingly simple and addictive movie recommendation engine based on critical and informed data sources. More types of search and a login to encourage return visits is suggested.
Related Apps
Review
Flickchart
Overview
FlickChart is movie lists site that helps you to create your own list. To create your lists their engine is based on picking the better of two movies. The system takes account of inappropriate decisions and allows you to swap one out for another. Movies to choose between can be filtered based on genre, year, decade, and favorites. Based on your choices Flickchart creates a favorites lists for you. It also has discussion groups. Flickchart's success partly depends on the usefulness of the list. Your lists can be filtered by top genres etc. You can search movies and get statistics, ranking. etc. July 2009.
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Conclusions
To get the site to give you a worthwhile favourites list you need to make a lot of choices.The social networking aspects could be extended to allow you to share lists with others and send messages. Finally, a gadget to display your list on our website would be a bonus.