A few months ago I signed up for FilmTrust. It’s an interesting project in which you can rate and reviews films and also add friends and add how much you trust their film ratings. The natural progression would be a personalised film recommendation system, but this doesn’t appear to exist yet. FilmTrust output a FOAF file for each user. For example, here’s

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Sites where extracting review information and generating feeds would be easy: BBC Collective Reviews Guardian Arts Reviews (actually, I’ve done this one, but don’t know where I’ve put the code 🙁 ) Metacritic ...

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With all this talk of microformats, a thought just struck me – the biggest deal is being able to aggregate reviews of events. Gosh, wouldn’t that be something impressive for centralised services to be doing? Imagine being able to specify an event you attended in the past and have other people’s reviews of it come up. I’d be impressed (and I don’t mean that this data should be held in an event-s...

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There just isn’t any. If there is, I’d really like someone to point it out to me. If you’re providing a review of something, it might be a one-off, in which case this kind of thing isn’t going to be very important, as you’d hope people would read (or skip) the whole thing, but if you’re regularly producing reviews (as on

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I’m a big fan of Alf Eaton’s forays into review tools, and his new RVW! bookmarklet is ace. From any item page on amazon you click the bookmarklet and get to add a rating, a heading and a review and can add it to your del.icio.us bookmarks. See Alf’s del.icio.us bookmarks for an exampl...

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LinkMachineGo has already linked to it and that’s good enough for me. So here’s the best of everything in 2003.

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Blogware now ships with functionality for blogging reviews and using the RVW RSS extension. Marc Canter says this is great, whilst I agree in theory, this system uses Amazon as its core item reference, and a cold shiver runs up my spine when I think what Amazon c...

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Books. The Blam! Review Creator, along with Blaxm! Reviews Exchange seeks to be a way of centralising reviews made by disparate people over the web (check out the format). Now, all this was done a few weeks ago, ...

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