Re: [uf-discuss] IMDb contact wanted (for advocacy)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Aug 31, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I'd like to do some advocacy work with the Internet Movie Database, You may have already found these: http://imdb.com/help/licensing/contact http://imdb.com/helpdesk/contact Thank you; I tried the latter, but all I received by way of response was a boilerplate Thank you for your interest... type reply. I think a named contact is needed; based on previous experience with large companies who use such techniques. (Idiotically, they don't e-mail the reply, but send a URL where you can read it on their website). Here's a similar site to IMDB you may also want to approach: http://jameshome.com/freebase/fmdb/ Thanks, but that appears to be password protected. -- Andy Mabbett ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] IMDb contact wanted (for advocacy)
Andy Mabbett (31 août 2007 - 23:18) : I'd like to do some advocacy work with the Internet Movie Database, but they don't advertise any useful contacts on their website. Does anyone have one? I'm not sure the initial owners are still working on it from Amazon. The first web version of the database went live on the servers at Cardiff University in Wales. There is a fun bit of e-mail dating back to those days between web interface author, Rob Hartill, and Col Needham, both impressed when the web interface got 100 accesses in a single day. Prior to the latest redesign, the IMDb website has been serving an average of 65 million accesses from over 3.5 million visitors every month. With the improvements and new features added in the redesign, this could well go higher. -- IMDb History http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?history Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:06:06 GMT Then on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hartill He's currently a volunteer fire-fighter with the Country Fire Service and a hobby farmer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham currently is the managing director of the Internet Movie Database. The access to the full database is available on IMDB Web site, and usable only with a very limited license. http://www.imdb.com/interfaces -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool *** ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
[uf-discuss] IMDb contact wanted (for advocacy)
I'd like to do some advocacy work with the Internet Movie Database, but they don't advertise any useful contacts on their website. Does anyone have one? Please feel free to reply to me off-list, or ask your IMDb contact to do so, for confidentiality's sake. Thank you. -- Andy Mabbett ** via webmail ** ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] IMDb contact wanted (for advocacy)
On Aug 31, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: I'd like to do some advocacy work with the Internet Movie Database, but they don't advertise any useful contacts on their website. Does anyone have one? I find IMDB one of the most frustrating sites on the web. They have so much great data and they've made it nearly impossible to do anything interesting with it. So microformats on IMDB would be great. You may have already found these: http://imdb.com/help/licensing/contact http://imdb.com/helpdesk/contact This page recommends the latter contact for general questions: http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?phonenumber Here's a similar site to IMDB you may also want to approach: http://jameshome.com/freebase/fmdb/ That's based on Freebase which has all sorts of microformat-ready data under Creative Commons: http://www.freebase.com/ Peace, Scott ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
