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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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