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Open Source Movie Recommendation API-> 0

Submitted by michuk on Monday January 24 2011, @07:57AM

michuk writes "Filmaster.com, an open source film community website that serves only Creative Commons content, unveiled their movie recommendations & reviews API enabling external programmers to create independent services that harness its power. Beta testing of Filmaster iPhone app dubbed ‘Foursquare for films' launched at the same time."
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Comment: Not quite the case: Google HK still uncensored (Score 5, Informative) 177

by michuk on Wednesday July 21 2010, @08:53AM (#32977164) Attached to: China Says Google Pledged To Obey Censorship Demands

As The Wired already explained a couple of days ago ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/google-china-fiction/ ) what Google and Chinese government agreed on is pure fiction. Google doesn't redirect Chinese users to the Honk Kong search engine automatically, but there is a button to easily switch and google.hk is left uncensored in China, meaning that the Chinese can still search Google without filtering. The article linked by Slashdot as the source presents the Chinese official version of the story which obviously hides the above fact.

Open source film recommendation engine-> 0

Submitted by michuk on Monday May 24 2010, @06:13AM

michuk writes "Filmaster.com, a social network for film lovers, has recently presented a new movie recommendations engine. The C++ algorithm that generates recommendations is open source and has been released under Affero GPLv3, just like the rest of Filmaster code."
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Polish Internet Users Against the Net Censorship-> 0

Submitted by michuk on Thursday January 21 2010, @07:28AM

michuk writes "Polish government wants to enforce Internet filtering to eliminate online gambling and child pornography. Everything for the benefit of our children, as this is the argument which is hard to stay against.

However, a notable group of Polish lawyers, journalists, academics, enterpreneurs, politicians and bloggers think otherwise and signed a letter to President of Poland, Lech Kaczyski, asking him to turn the law down (in Polish legal system, president has the right to do this, but the parliament can then overcome president’s opposition if 2/3 of the delegates vote for it).

You can sign the petition here."
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Comment: Re:Film recommendations (Score 1) 83

by michuk on Saturday June 27 2009, @10:37AM (#28495105) Attached to: Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved

To me it's essential to read a few reviews (even very short ones like "too sentimental" or "powerful and original") by people I know to have a similar movie taste to me. That's why I like the two websites I mentioned above -- they exactly tell you whose opinions you should care for and whose you can safely ignore. On the other hand, http://jinni.com/ and http://clerkdogs.com/ have some pretty cool ideas as well - they suggest you movies based on your mood and your taste. Still in beta though, so it does not always work as expected, but worth trying anyways.

Comment: Film recommendations (Score 3, Interesting) 83

by michuk on Saturday June 27 2009, @06:17AM (#28493637) Attached to: Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved

Does anyone find Netflix recommendations any good anyway? I used http://criticker.com/ for quite a while and was very happy about the recommended stuff. Recently switched to http://filmaster.com/ (which is a free service) and it's equally good, even though both probably use a pretty simple algorithm compared to Nextflix.

Richard Stallman on ISP filtering and censorship-> 0

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on Monday February 16 2009, @06:55PM

michuk writes "If someone just like ISP companies in Poland and Australia tries to interfere sharing by blocking network ports, censor Internet websites — it is real bad news for democracy, red light for our freedom, signal that companies have power to decide, what is good and what is bad. This injustice is so serious, that I asked Richard Stallman about his point of view on this situation. I think there is no other person in the world, who is so experienced in fighting for freedom in technical world... Here is what RMS thinks about those issues."
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Comment: Polish translation of this article available (Score 1) 976

by michuk on Saturday July 05 2008, @10:22AM (#24066305) Attached to: Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation

Here is the Polish translation of this article: http://osnews.pl/problemem-nie-jest-gates-lecz-bariery-ktore-stworzyl/

Possible manipulation around OOXML process in Pola-> 0

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on Thursday March 27 2008, @05:23AM

michuk writes "This is a follow-up post to my recent report on OOXML process in Poland (also covered by Groklaw). It looks like things are going bad this time. At least as bad as in October. IBM representative for KT182 accused commitee's chairman, Andrukiewicz of intentionally manipulating the process."
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Fear of the Dark-> 0

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on Sunday December 23 2007, @07:40PM

michuk writes "Do you know why do I admire Microsoft's marketing whizzes? They made a deity out of their corporation. No, seriously. No figurative speech. Not a metaphor nor a parallel. Those nameless heroes did it literally [...] Keyto in a lengthy editorial "gets the facts" about Microsoft and the way it influences the free software world."
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