11 messages in com.googlegroups.google-desktop-developerRe: Movies Plugin for Google Desktop
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Manas Tungare22 Nov 2005 23:08 
theidealist23 Nov 2005 07:35 
theidealist23 Nov 2005 07:38 
poz23 Nov 2005 08:18 
theidealist23 Nov 2005 08:42 
Manas Tungare23 Nov 2005 08:50 
theidealist23 Nov 2005 13:04 
Manas Tungare23 Nov 2005 13:51 
theidealist27 Nov 2005 18:20 
Manas Tungare28 Nov 2005 23:01 
Manas Tungare01 Dec 2005 23:36 
Subject:Re: Movies Plugin for Google Desktop
From:theidealist (mcmi@gmail.com)
Date:11/27/2005 06:20:13 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-desktop-developer

I am considering extending the details panel to include an embedded flash player as an ActiveX control. This would of course display a flash movie that contained more details about the movie (not just theaters and showtimes).

You bring up an interesting point though in mentioning syndication, and I have no idea how big of an issue this is, but how bad is it if I were to parse/scrape the movie's details from, say, the IMDB page and get the image and blurb or whatever out of it? I figure as long as you link to their page somewhere, you're driving users to them. That isn't such a bad thing, but I don't want to get in trouble so I'm not totally sure if it's worth the time - especially since the IMDB page is anything but XML-based.

Thanks again,

-Patrick