Posts Tagged with ‘imdb’

Amazon has finally made a decision to add some free movies to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the incredibly popular site it acquired some 10 years ago. Until today the database only featured various information about movies and TV shows but video content was only limited to clips and trailers which made the concept look very limited - movie database without movies is pretty strange, after all. This addition of full-length films and episodes of TV shows available to watch [...]

Yesterday marked the official launch of blinkx BBTV, which is aimed to provide “a high-quality television experience over the internet” by offering a large library of independent films and premium programming from existing partners of blinkx.
The new BBTV (BroadBand TeleVision) platform is now being offered as a free download and makes use of blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology and hybrid P2P streaming to provide users with interactive internet television that will add “dimension and context to the [...]

Today's launch of Hulu (and its partnership with Comcast) reminded me of Fancast, which is a hybrid entertainment portal from the cable service provider.
Back in August when I reviewed Fancast, I admired it and described it as “web 2.0 meets IMDB meets TV Guide” for its comprehensive database of movies and television shows that also provided viewers with TV listings in an effort to help visitors decide what to watch each day on television.
Just as expected, my visit to [...]

With all of the hype and attention that Google has been getting for every single move it makes, it is somewhat refreshing to see an innovative, useful search tool come along that is not associated with the billion-dollar giant.
There are so many search engines and websites with databases full of information that, often, it is hard to decide where to start. For instance, if you want to find a news story, you might begin with Google News, but to find [...]

Comcast has now opened the doors on a beta version of Fancast, its entertainment portal that will aim to be ?the one place where you can find what to watch, where to watch, when to watch it — plus all the video, photos and facts you crave.?
Fancast is now open to the public and provides a comprehensive database of TV shows, movies, actors, directors, movie trailers and various other video clips. Think of it as web 2.0 meets IMDB meets [...]

Every so often when I'm reading about a new-to-me Web 2.0 site or service, I follow the link and try the site out just because I need a giggle. With the gimmicky heart symbol in their logo, I Heart Movies seemed like a kitschy one-off site like Famousr. Of course, in the interest of you, the Profy reader, I signed up for an account and took it for a spin. And was hooked.
I Heart Movies is a social network built [...]