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.
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.
Check out this new site for the upcoming movie The Haunting in Connecticut. The interactive site goes deeper into the story of the haunted house that plagues an unsuspecting family who has recently moved in. The site features a blog from a parapsychologist who discusses various paranormal encounters with photos and videos. In addition, visitors to the site can find out if the live in a haunted region by entering in their zip code and accessing a Google Map that reveals to them the scary truth.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could type in 'funny pirates' to a search field box and these movies came up, as well as a link with where to watch them for FREE? Yeah...enter Jinni. Jinni is a startup with what they call a 'Movie Genome" that indexes over 10,000 movies and television shows searchable using natural language. TechCrunch says:
The site has created what it calls “The Movie Genome” - a database of 10,000 movies and television shows that can be searched using natural language. The index has been tagged by a team of humans aided by a computer algorithm, with attributes spanning fifty categories and is reminiscent of Pandora’s Music Genome Project (which is also sorted by human professionals). Users can either search for movies based on a manual search, browse through movies by their attributes, or can generate recommendations after completing a brief test that determines their movie personality. After finding a movie or show they’re interested in, users can buy or rent them (or in some cases, watch them free) through a number of linked services, including Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix.
In practice the search seems to work well. Each match is visually displayed in a grid as a thumbnail, with the most relevant matches emphasized with larger images. This style makes it easier to quickly identify movies you might be interested in, and also makes false matches less jarring.
