Enter Jinni, it's like Pandora meets movies, how brilliant! Their team of movie and TV experts created the Movie Genome, an ambitious, ongoing project with the Jinni community to map more aspects of movies, shows, and semi-professional videos than ever before - so that all different viewers can match their personal tastes and moods, and find what they really want to watch next. The Movie Genome powers the search, recommendations, Taste Types and more.
Calling all dog-lovers -social networking isn't just for humans too! Dogster is a really cool website for dog-lovers where they can register their best friend and meet other passionate owners.
The days of free Internet TV on Hulu might be coming to a close. Jonathan Miller at News Corp. has been hinting lately, and talks of a subscription model for at least some of Hulu's services. He says they would at least like to see some content on the site may be restricted to subscribers, calling in an “environment for premium content.” Also, he offered a lecture on how content purely supported by ads “doesn’t work” and that many sites were introducing micropayments as a way to ease customers away from free gradually. Digital Trends says that the service will be expanding soon to the UK, so it’s quite possible that will be the time for some major changes.
Brian Mcallister, for The University of Washington Design Show 2009, announces the sharing system of the plug in electric bicycles that can be charged when plugged into their docks. Cykels similar to this are already prominent throughout Europe, and they are to be tested in the States-in cities like Seattle and San Francisco. With this Cykel, you have the choice of pedaling to your destination or using the full on electric mode, if you're just lazy. This is a great alternative way to commute around the city and improve conditions with the environment.
