NanoCrowd Suggests Your Next Movie Based On Keyword Groups
It happens to the best of us. Confronted with the vastness of modern media, the hundreds of thousands of possible choices, you throw your hands in the air and say “What to watch?”
Nanocrowd is a crowd-sourced movie selection tool. Similar to previously reviewed TasteKid, you give Nanocrowd the title of a movie you’ve already watched and enjoyed. Nanocrowd then suggests six NanoGenres, groupings of three key words related to the movie. I searched for Big Fish as seen in the screenshot above and selected the grouping of “Fantasy, Wondrous, Surreal” as my NanoGenre. Did NanoCrowd succeed at suggesting movies I’d enjoy?
Its number one pick was The City of Lost Children a relatively obscure French movie released in 1995 that happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time. The rest of the 30 or so suggested movies were split evenly between movies I’d already seen—NanoCrowd has no way of knowing that of course—and movies I hadn’t. Almost every movie listed I’d already seen, I’d watch again. If you give NanoCrowd a whirl, sound off in the comments below and tell us how accurate or inaccurate you find it.
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You cannot click on an actor name in NanoCrowd to see in which other movies that person played, like you can in IMDb.
They should integrate NanoCrowd and others like it inside IMDb. Too many databases and applications flying around with no connection between them, each one with their own username+password.
@Akevitt: Agreed
I like Jinni www.jinni.com better
[lifehacker.com]
Gives a better "cloud" of options!
callrecall911
I'm struggling to find even a tenuous link to using the term "nano" here.
mobiusuk
@mobiusuk: Anyone want to start PicoCrowd with PicoGenres?
mobiusuk
what the heck, a category "dying profound, CANCER??"
BrianB
@Phreakazoid:
+1 to that
With productivity apps all clamoring to share their APIs (almost everyone now has Gmail Contacts / Freshbooks / Shoeboxed import)
we need these media portals to start allowing same.
Netflix, IMDB, Criticker, Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes...
I'm tired of rating the 5,000 movies I've seen over and over again!
This is a pretty sweet website. I really hope they accomplish what they set out to do. Combined with Criticker and IMDb, the possibilities are endless.
Thanks alot for this article, LH!
I found what to rent - [www.whattorent.com] useful as well.
It remembers my taste, and asks me about my mood every time I visit. Then It will pick something according to it.
I found I liked most of its recommendations.
teckjunkie
Hahaha... I searched "The Matrix" and two of the six options were "Complicated, convoluted, confusing" and "philosophy, philosophers, philosophical". I don't know how useful of a tool this will be, but it was certainly worth trying out for that laugh.