On Apr 03, James Rubino <james.rub...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been reading along IMDbPY for two years now and my what a long way > the code has come.
What a mess? ;-) > I was fortunate to attend IMDB founder Col Needham's talk at the South by > South West Festival in Austin Texas USA two weeks ago. > While he never gave IMDbPY an official endorsement, he did mention it as a > way for developers to be creative with the IMDB data sets. Really? Explicitly? SO, NO NINJAS TO KILL US ALL?! ;-) No, seriously: that's the Greatest News Ever(tm), for IMDbPY. > He mentioned that API's have always been a consideration though the > direction of the company has been mostly focused on becoming an integrated > data and entertainment platform... the goal at this point is to create > on-demand video streams from IMDB.com. I know, and that's understandable. Taking business issues into consideration, a public API is not exactly a gold mine - not to mention legal problems redistributing content provided by others... > 1) We really should be releasing an optimized EC2 AMI of IMDbPY and > related viable works. That's a thing I can investigate, at least to see if it's feasible. > 2) Plead, beg, buy 'em (Amazon and IMDB Head Pumba's ) beer, wine and > scotch to garner more support for IMDbPY as a legitimate development > platform. LOL. :-) Thank you very much for the great news! -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-devel mailing list Imdbpy-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-devel
