TheyWorkForYou, which I work on, has much nicer transcripts, a much better search engine, and now speech-matched video of the House of Commons from the BBC too (though we need your help!:) ). I've written three technical posts on the technology behind the video timestamping, which I guess someone might be interested in: http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/12/theyworkforyou-video-the-flash-player/ is the first.
"This is what the odeon clone site did as well." - No. There is some confusion around here on this matter. When you submitted the registration form on my version (which is not a main bit of the site), the data did go to me; I then passed it straight through to the Odeon's site, not storing it in any way (yes, you only have my word for that; altruism, as someone said). The reason I could not just have a form submitting directly to Odeon's site is that then the user would get whatever inaccessible JS/HTML Odeon sent back on the form results page, which defeated the point; as it is, I parsed the results page and displayed it more accessibly.
I contacted them multiple times over the years, and only got rebuffs saying use IE, or even that they were working on a better version which never materialised. http://gorjuss.com/luvly/20030908-somerville.html has a nice interview with me, explaining quite a bit.
I was not job hunting.:)
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TheyWorkForYou, which I work on, has much nicer transcripts, a much better search engine, and now speech-matched video of the House of Commons from the BBC too (though we need your help! :) ). I've written three technical posts on the technology behind the video timestamping, which I guess someone might be interested in: http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/12/theyworkforyou-video-the-flash-player/ is the first.
"This is what the odeon clone site did as well." - No. There is some confusion around here on this matter. When you submitted the registration form on my version (which is not a main bit of the site), the data did go to me; I then passed it straight through to the Odeon's site, not storing it in any way (yes, you only have my word for that; altruism, as someone said). The reason I could not just have a form submitting directly to Odeon's site is that then the user would get whatever inaccessible JS/HTML Odeon sent back on the form results page, which defeated the point; as it is, I parsed the results page and displayed it more accessibly.
Just in case someone makes an assumption from this post, you could never book tickets, therefore never submit credit card details, on my site.
I was in no way "tricking people" - it was clear my site was not the official site, stating such on every single page.
I contacted them multiple times over the years, and only got rebuffs saying use IE, or even that they were working on a better version which never materialised. http://gorjuss.com/luvly/20030908-somerville.html has a nice interview with me, explaining quite a bit. I was not job hunting. :)