is turning 19 this year.
After turning SS on and logging in, go to IMDb.com. Open up the SS bar and you’ll see “angemeetsworld” made 4 shifts. Click them and you should see them all at once, which is neat.
Nothing? Then please go to my IMDb trail and click the floating pics.
Still nothing? Then you can see each shift separately: ss1, ss2, ss3, ss4.
If all of that fails, blame Mu — Moi. Me.
As for the intervention, I’ve been using IMDb for years, and I’ve always admired the breadth of the information they’ve been able to collect through research and some collective input. Unfortunately, the accumulation has created clutter. Even though they had a layout makeover a few years ago, I don’t think it was nearly enough. The message boards alone can merit another look at how IMDb needs an update. The search bar is easy enough to use, but the home page could definitely use some streamlining. After hearing that IMDb was looking to add more streaming video content from sites like Hulu, I thought it was ironic that they could really learn a thing or two from Hulu’s design.
Then again, IMDb remains highly popular, so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it?
Shaping the internet’s personality
For my 2nd Travelogue, I want to delve deeper into the world of internet commentating. Almost all popular websites, no matter what content they offer, have some form of commentating feature available. Commentating has become an important feature of these websites because they create value through positive network externalities - i.e. the more people that use it, the more valuable it becomes. Comments provide feedback, opinions, responses to questions, and promote discussions that in turn rely on the collective knowledge of users; the more users and comments there are, the bigger the pool of collective knowledge to draw from.
From personal experience, I know that I will always read reviews for a particular restaurant before I commit to eating there. Moreover, If Im going to pay $15 to see a movie, I’m gonna have to check IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes before purchasing tickets. Also, a scathing amazon review can, and has in the past, deterred me from purchasing a particular product. While the value of such comments are intangible, they are real, and affect real decisions.
In exploring the world of commentating, I plan to research sites with a dedicated community of commentating users such as Digg, Reddit, Myspace, Facebook, Amazon, Ebay, 4chan, 7chan, et al. Topics I would like to explore include: how internet Memes start and propogate, how the community reacts to controversial news or issues, how differently people act when they comment anonymously (online vs real personality), how internet comments affect people’s real-world decision-making, as well as other topics that irk my curiosity along the way.