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    Hi. I'm Nathan Burke from matchmine. Just this week, we release the beta of MyMovieMatch. We're calling it a personal media discovery service. It takes your input in the form of movie reviews, checks aginast our database of around 50,000 movies, and returns movies you'll love. So please feel free to check it out , and let me know what you think.

    2007-06-29 11:03:36.0

    Is this site for US only?

    I clicked on Get Started and got the personal info page, and it wouldn't take my 4 digit postcode...

    Why do you need the postcode anyways?

    2007-07-08 18:28:49.0

    Mike Troiano from matchmine here... thanks for the feedback.

    Yes, the site is US only for now, we're really just getting underway.

    We ask for zip, age and gender because we use those data points as the basis for a preference "archetype."  It's essentially a way to get a pretty good first cut at what you might be interested in, based on  demographic segments we can infer  from that info.  This ensures people can participate anonymously, and that PII is excluded from MatchKeys.

    2007-07-09 09:01:14.0

    What happens if I don't fit the preferences of that sector? zip, age and gender seems to me a very restrictive criteria in that case

    How would I go about making things to mine?

    2007-07-09 18:18:23.0

    By using the MatchKey in the application. The key that comes out of the "forge" (what we call that Flash app on the Web) is just a starting point. Each time you react to a film, that reaction is captured. After  4 actions, the key is evolved according to that input, automatically.

    Archetypes are just a jumpstart. The more you use the key, the better it gets.

    2007-07-09 18:20:33.0

    Ah, okay. That makes sense

    2007-07-09 18:22:45.0
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