Movietally and Understanding Web 2.0 Design

haym37 writes "Ajit Jaokar over at the Open Gardens blog has an article up on a growing service called movietally. The service allows users to tag the movies they've seen and receive automatic recommendations for movies they might like to see. He describes it as a 'textbook case of web 2.0 design' and goes into detail about the fundamental principles of web 2.0 design and how movietally relates to them. The interesting part about all of this is that, according to the article, the founder is only fifteen years old and created it in under a month."

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[rjstanford]

Since the summary doesn't see fit to actually post a link to the FA: enjoy.

last.fm anyone?

[MaliciousSmurf]

I am guessing he cribbed the idea from the likes of http://last.fm/ , a music site which has a similar system. (Editorialization: Except better)

Re:Textbook case? Of what?

[BrynM]

Since when did Web 2.0 = forgetting all about usability and going with 'it looks minimal, so therefore cool'

It may look minimal, but it's a monster of table driven madness. Viewing the source reveals that they are thinking of W2.0 in the marketing and social sense only. The page validation shows that their programmers don't really give a care what HTML is and how relates to W2.0 in the first place. There's not even a doctype declared. A textbook of W2.0 design my ass. Movietally is more of a textbook example of jumping on a marketing bandwagon and ignoring how to actually code symantically.