"Flash Forward" with Nanocrowd Technology! (Blackout not included)

ABC's TV series FlashForward commences pretty quickly with a global blackout. The entire world loses consciousness while at the same time experiencing individual visions of the future for a period of two minutes and seventeen seconds.

A quick step forward and then back with new knowledge.
A glimpse of potential with implications for the future.

But what is real and what isn't and what is just a matter of perspective? Can the future be changed in the past which is now the present? What will you see? What will you do? And who will you share it with?

Now you too can harness the power and experience of the crowd mosaic to gain perspective for you. No loss of consciousness or blackout necessary.

• Alter your future.
• Maximize your present and future entertainment experiences.
• Avoid potential negative entertaiment outcomes.

The current focus is: Movies.
The current question is: "Will I Like This Movie?"


Find out the answer in half the time it takes for 137 seconds to expire.

Thousands of movies to choose from.

Wherever and whenever you are, you can now safely step into the future to make the present a more entertaining and social place. Share and experience the future with your friends today!

Flash forward on Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/nanocrowd/

Flash forward on your Iphone or browser enabled smart phone:
http://www.nanocrowd.com/mobile/

Flash forward from the web:
http://www.nanocrowd.com/quiz/

These experiences are powered by Nanocrowd technology. Nanocrowd taps into the mosaic of the crowd to map millions of individual reactions on a global scale. This enables and helps you to flash forward with purpose.

Oh, and check out the TV series "FlashForward". It is coming back this month! (March 18th, 2010) While this blog post was inspired by the TV series FlashForward, the linked resources and information about those linked resources are not associated with ABC or with the TV series.

Nanocrowd Movie Search: A New Recommendation Approach

I am excited to announce the launch of a project that I have been working on for some time at Nanocrowd (I am part of the founding team). We have been working hard in preparation of the launch. Well, that time has come!!!

Nanocrowd's Movie Search Engine is now up!

You now have a new tool at your disposal to help you find movies you will like. If you tell us a movie, we will return recommendations based on the one that you picked. The process may be familiar but the results are exceptional.

After you give us a movie, we return 40 movies most like it, 40 movies least like it, and small themed groupings of movies that contain movies like the one picked. These small themed groupings are called nanogenres.

Our approach is very exciting and efficient. We don't utilize editors and we don't require movie ratings. Instead, we have developed algorithms to analyze web commentary about movies. These algorithms figure out what movies are about, how those movies are related to one another, and what people think about them.

We feed in: User commentary.
We receive back: Movie summations and relationships.

Then, when you give us a movie, we are able to return recommendations and relationships for the movie you picked.

We also are planning to add some very cool features to our website. One of the features I am looking forward to is Netflix integration. This will allow you to add movies and manage your Netflix queue all without leaving our site. Other exciting features are planned as well. If you want us to send you updates as we add new features, remember to sign up over at our site.

A couple of helpful tips (for when you are at our site):

Don't know what a recommended movie is about? Hover over the link and a description will be retrieved from Amazon.

Want more information than what is obtained in the hover? Click the Tell Me More link in the hover and we will show you information from IMDb and Amazon with links to other sites like Netflix as well. The Tell Me More page also includes links to trailers for that movie, user comments, and more.

We aren't the only new approach when it comes to movies, (Jinni and Clerkdogs are two other new movie recommendation approaches), but I do think we are the best one. My Netflix queue has a ton more movies in it than it did before!

About Nanocrowd (from our blog)

"At Nanocrowd we are developing new technology for searching popular multimedia content. Our approach will make it much easier for users to find content that is of interest to them. Our first demonstration of this technology is theatrical-release movies, but the methods we are developing will apply to books, online videos, games, music, or even to art and architecture."