[mythtv-users] Announcing TVWish Beta -- A super wishlist for Myth

[Mario L]

If I had previously heard of MythRecommend I would have used it.  I
think at this point however, I'm going to wait until TVWish and
mythrecommend are merged.


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:02:57 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:25:53AM -0500, Nicholas McCoy wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:59:50 -0800, Brad Templeton
> > Brad, have you looked at MythRecommend at all?  Its a script you run
> > on your computer which uploads your recording schedule to a database
> > and then downloads lists of shows that were scheduled by others who
> > have the same shows scheduled as you.  The output is fairly raw, which
> > makes it hard to use.
> 
> > Another problem is it doesn't have a large user base, so there isn't
> > much information to draw correlations out of.  This is a particularly
> > good reason to integrate TV Wish with MythRecommend.  Why have 2
> > starving recommendation systems when one can do the same job.
> 
> Mythrecommend is hard to find, and it claims the upload is anonymous
> but it's not, your IP address (mine is static) will be recorded in
> the web logs.
> 
> tvwish started as a giant wishlist, and series abridger, but the ablility
> to import your list from a web URL makes it work as a recommendation
> system for people who want to set themselves up as a critic.  There is
> no shortage of critics in the world fortunately.
> 
> However, down the road a rating system and recommendation system are
> in the plans.   Do you know how many people upload data with mythrecommend?
> There are only 9 references to it on the whole web.
> 
> 
> >
> > I'm not sure how MythRecommend fairs in some of the things you worry
> > about.  It appears to be pretty private.  You only upload a list of
> > show titles, nothing about whether you actually watched or anything
> > like that.  I don't know what protections they have against spam, but
> > I didn't have to set up an account to use it.
> 
> Lists of what you read and watch are among the things you will find
> privacy advocates care the most about.   Librarians, for example,
> destroy circulation records after books are returned so that people
> can't come and demand to see what people are reading.   There is a long
> history of that.
> 
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