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TrekBody
19 years, 1 month ago at Mar 29 16:37 - OK, I have a couple of ideas that are a bit on the far-out side, but might give Tom something to sink his teeth into programming wise. Tom, feel free to dismiss completely.
I was thinking of some social collaboration extensions that would not only make listal a great site for storing titles, but also for exploring titles.
First I imagined a visual tree of similar titles, authors, subjects - that was dynamic, and changed as you crawled through it. For example, one of the most visually stunning sites/applications I have seen is Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus (no I don't work for them). If you go to "www.visualthesaurus.com/" you can try it a few times for free. Imagine you are on the page for the movie Star Wars. Star Wars is in the center of a web of lines connecting to features with similar content - One line to Actors with sublines to Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil, etc. One line to Director with similar branching lines. This info could be picked up from IMDB, but then I wonder if you could branch out to SIMILAR movies - Star Trek, SpaceBalls, the other movies in the trilogy, etc. Click on any of the branches, and it recenters to show the links of whatever you clicked on. I wonder if you could even show links to other top-rated movies by Listal users who rated Star Wars highly. If it's a book, it would be wild if it could somehow pick up similar authors - Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, etc. Same with Directors - although I am not sure how you would pick up "similar".
In the same vein on a particular page for an item, be it a Movie, Music or Game there could be some collaborative social information about the title. For instance, if I am looking at my page for Stephen King's the The Stand (Book), it shows me the other users that have watched it, but it might also tell me that 23 Listal users rated it the same as I did - potentially allowing me to explore users with similar tastes.
I would even like to see something similar on the main pages for DVDs, Movies, Music, etc. Could Listal generate matches for the top 20 persons who have the same taste as me (lowest average difference between their ratings and mine), and also recommend movies that were ranked high by that group that I have not seen.
Thanks for listening and considering.
I was thinking of some social collaboration extensions that would not only make listal a great site for storing titles, but also for exploring titles.
First I imagined a visual tree of similar titles, authors, subjects - that was dynamic, and changed as you crawled through it. For example, one of the most visually stunning sites/applications I have seen is Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus (no I don't work for them). If you go to "www.visualthesaurus.com/" you can try it a few times for free. Imagine you are on the page for the movie Star Wars. Star Wars is in the center of a web of lines connecting to features with similar content - One line to Actors with sublines to Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil, etc. One line to Director with similar branching lines. This info could be picked up from IMDB, but then I wonder if you could branch out to SIMILAR movies - Star Trek, SpaceBalls, the other movies in the trilogy, etc. Click on any of the branches, and it recenters to show the links of whatever you clicked on. I wonder if you could even show links to other top-rated movies by Listal users who rated Star Wars highly. If it's a book, it would be wild if it could somehow pick up similar authors - Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, etc. Same with Directors - although I am not sure how you would pick up "similar".
In the same vein on a particular page for an item, be it a Movie, Music or Game there could be some collaborative social information about the title. For instance, if I am looking at my page for Stephen King's the The Stand (Book), it shows me the other users that have watched it, but it might also tell me that 23 Listal users rated it the same as I did - potentially allowing me to explore users with similar tastes.
I would even like to see something similar on the main pages for DVDs, Movies, Music, etc. Could Listal generate matches for the top 20 persons who have the same taste as me (lowest average difference between their ratings and mine), and also recommend movies that were ranked high by that group that I have not seen.
Thanks for listening and considering.