Filed under: Utilities, Web services, web 2.0
We heart movies and so do you, let's heart them together
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We all have a ton of DVDs laying around, and have no way to really keep track of them all digitally. Sure, there are services out there who have come and gone that promised to store your precious information once you've taken days and days to enter them.Here comes another, called IHeartMovies.org. We want to preface this by saying that you should always look into the background of web apps and feel free to contact the company to see if you feel like they're in it for the long haul. Nobody likes putting info up, only for the company to dissapear in a week or month.
Having said that, IHeartMovies aims to be a social network for you and your friends (and people all over the world) to share your likes as far as movies go. Great idea, let's jump right into the features.
- Rate Titles
- Break your collections down into lists (TV or Film)
- Check out your collections in multiple views (full description and icon view, or quick list)
- Full search of your lists, others lists, and sitewide information
- Share movie likes and dislikes on Facebook, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Google
But it's all in the presentation here. When you log in, you're presented with a pretty neat dashboard that will show you whatever you want to see based on your interests. Things like what your friends have added and quick surveys.
With this type of format, we really hope that IHeartMovies Hearts us and stays up with things, and that means adding more functionality and more widgets. It's an ajaxified and friendlier IMDB.
Post your lists in the comments so we can see what kind of wacky movies you like.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
trevor said 12:21AM on 7-02-2008
here is the link to my lists
http://www.iheartmovies.org/user/nullMovies/lists
i'm pretty sure these guys will be around for a while, signed up over a year ago and been activily using the site since. so much so i even now right for their movieblog @ http://movieblog.iheartmovies.org/
btw where are your lists? lol
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Mike said 1:07AM on 7-02-2008
You "right" for us Trevor? ;).
Drew Olanoff said 1:11AM on 7-02-2008
http://www.iheartmovies.org/user/drew/lists/94
Fav movies of all time, adding as we speak!!!
Drew Olanoff said 1:12AM on 7-02-2008
And hey. It's 1am, after midnight spelling goes out the window ;)
Jubei said 3:54PM on 7-05-2008
I just registered and tried. Interface is nice and clean, site could be more responsive but is acceptable. My major complaint is that the database isn't comprehensive enough, on my 4th search, it already did not manage to return any entries. I suppose with time the database will become more complete.
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Mike said 1:09AM on 7-02-2008
Jubei,
If you use the advanced search ( http://www.iheartmovies.org/search/ ) when you can't find a film, it'll give you the option to submit it to us for submission. Once that's done it goes on a list that we use to enter films in and when it's added in, you'll get an email letting you know.
Mike said 1:06AM on 7-02-2008
Thanks for the review Drew.
I've got my most anticipated movies of 08 up now. http://www.iheartmovies.org/user/MikeDavis/lists/75
We don't plan on going anywhere ;).
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Drew Olanoff said 1:10AM on 7-02-2008
Nice list Mike, thanks for stopping by.
Keep up the great work.
Jash Sayani said 8:52AM on 7-02-2008
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Rob Huddleston said 4:12PM on 7-02-2008
Don't like it. I think the interface is "pretty", but there are several dead ends. For instance, I clicked on "Collection", then "Start Collecting" ... and got a page that said I didn't have anything in my collection. Well, duh - I said I wanted to START collecting. But the page has no links to actually start collecting!
Also, there's no way that I'm going to actually SEARCH for each of the better-than-700 movies in my collection just to add them - especially since each of the searches requires at least several clicks. They need to provide me a way to simply add the movies I own, rather than search for them.
So a really big thumbs-down from here.
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Mike said 10:03PM on 7-02-2008
Rob,
How do you envision adding films to your online collection? Do you already have a digital file with all the films you own on it? Did you try out the browse pages to see other ways to add films? Was there a suggestion you had for making it better?
We'd be more than happy to see how we can accomodate you, you are just going to have to tell us how you'd like to be helped.
Mike
moby said 10:41PM on 7-02-2008
Site looks nice. Way better than the boring humdrum of IMDB. It would be nice to be able to export/import large list files. I've spent a signifant amount of time creating a list on IMDB and would basically have to start over. Currently, I'm not motivated to do so. A wonderful alternative for first-timers.
On a side note, I see your facebook page. Any chance you are working on an integrated FB app?
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Mike said 11:29PM on 7-02-2008
Moby,
We're working on a tool to allow importing of excel and xml files. It would take a list of titles and attempt to match them with our database and if they weren't there, it suggests to us that we need to add them. This feature is fairly finished, just need to tweak a few more things on it. Unfortunately, this also hinges on you being able to export your collection from whatever tool you use now.
As far as the facebook app. It's an eventual feature, but it won't be finished for awhile. Nice detective work on it though ;).