Comments on: Clerkdogs Has Your OscarMatch: Quirky Movie Recommendations You Won’t Find On Netflix

By: Tim Todd

Tim Todd — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:25:34 +0000

“Nanocrowd Movie Search: A New Recommendation Approach.”

By: Tijl Kindt

Tijl Kindt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:18:02 +0000

I’ve had the best (and most transparent) results for movie recommendations on http://www.criticker.com which basically matches people with similar movie tastes. Out of a pool of 20,000 users, it takes the ones that have a movie taste most similar to yours to base its recommendations on (out of a pool of 30,000 movies).

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connect pc to tv — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:44:40 +0000

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By: JoshFinnie

JoshFinnie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:25:57 +0000

Human Power can be biased by culture, taste, obscurity of movie, etc.

I think Netflix has a good automated program. If you want to take the average of all the Clerkdogs recommendations and give them to me, i’d be more happy. But trusting one human powered recommendation might not be best.

By: Meghan Carter

Meghan Carter — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:32:54 +0000

Jinni.com does generate movie recommendations, but they can be just as bewildering as Netflix’s. Type in “Slumdog Millionaire” and you get Charlie Chaplin’s “Gold Rush” and Robert Altman’s “Ready to Wear” (???). And they don’t even have “The Wrestler” in their system yet.

By: Josh O'Tierney

Josh O'Tierney — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:17:43 +0000

I highly doubt if human-curated recommendation system will work. It’ll be biased in my opinion. I guess the only solution for the best recommendations is crowd-sourcing, and websites like http://www.flixster.com for movies, http://www.cruxle.com for cross-media recommendations, http://www.ilike.com for music really prove this fact. My favorite is http://www.cruxle.com that recommends across media based on crowd-sourcing but in a very innovative way.

Even though clerkdogs might work for some movies, I highly suspect if it’ll work for all movies. One should wait and see.

By: Michael Beavers

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:10:06 +0000

Exactly. Maybe Netflix’s approach to invite people to come up with new collaborative filtering engine technology was a good approach a few years ago. Today, they could let developers come up with recommendation engines that people can use “in experience” with their Netflix accounts.

By: mathew johnson

mathew johnson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:07:15 +0000

This is such a classic case of the Internet supporting not just a long tail, but a fat head that masks thoughtful human recommendations. I think Clerk Dogs sounds like a great service. Anytime you have a popularity algorithm, you will get pushed less quirky related choices. This is especially important for group projects like movies, where a single attached name (director, star, etc.) doesn’t carry the signal consistency in the same way that a single-author book does.
Mathew
http://www.blist.com

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:51:10 +0000

Another movie recommendation site is http://www.jinni.com

It uses a bit different approach where you input your mood for the movie.

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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:50:00 +0000

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By: http://humorandlaughter.blogspot.com

http://humorandlaughter.blogspot.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:52:12 +0000

Thank you for the post. I know your website is about technology, but I appreciate the fact you take the time to add some fun. Keep up the great work!

By: Ryan Fish

Ryan Fish — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:50:27 +0000

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By: Mary Hansell

Mary Hansell — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:12:52 +0000

Hi Matt,

What movies did you try? You do not have to include a date for the movie. We apologize for the error and appreciate your feedback.

Mary H
feedback@clerkdogs.com
http://www.clerkdogs.com

By: Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:56:13 +0000

I just tried two common movies and it returned an ERROR for both. Do I have to include the date of the movie? If so, that’s lame.

By: Kevin Minott

Kevin Minott — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:45:16 +0000

Human powered recommendations can’t be beat.

A close match for Waltz with Bashir (2008) is Persepolis (2007)

Equally personal autobiographical memoir about life in Middle East also uses animation to tell its story.

http://www.cler...ir-2008/matches

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:44:46 +0000

http://www.iheartmovies.com just added our Strands recommendation system and having some fun success. More on that soon!

By: Michael Beavers

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:41:04 +0000

Interesting. Is Netflix’s API for authentication only? Perhaps it would be better as a platform API that allowed users to supplant with competitive suggestion engines and still link back to Netflix’s data so you could drop it in your queue.

By: fb681010916

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:38:25 +0000

isn’t this the same functionality (or used to be) as http://www.spout.com?

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Cool New Site Recommends Films Based on Oscar Nominations « Net News Daily — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:35:07 +0000

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By: Sachin

Sachin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:21:42 +0000

Nice suggestion. I liked the name of site..very funny.