Web Programming Competition

Winners

First Place - $2500

YMDB - Your Movie Database (Yafim Landa)
An impressively complete social networking site, similar in scope to Facebook.com but with the twist that movies help link friends.

Second Place - $1500

Movie Rails (Celia Chen, Victor Costan)
Don't watch movies alone. Watch them with friends. This website with a accompanying Facebook plug-in help you and your Facebook friends plan watching movies together.

Third Place (tie) - $750 each

FlixForFree (Sergio Haro, Adam Hartz, Assem Kishore)
Earn money by answering trivia questions about movies. Questions are automatically generated for all movies but filtered for difficulty by IMDB movie popularity and bootstrapping based on user performance. No actual money involved yet.
ReelGood (Andrea Bradshaw, Britni Ihle, Margaret Leibovic)
A clean-interface movie database with faceted browsing, celebrity news linking into the pages, and clever rating categories - Is this a good date movie? Appropriate for children? Make you feel good? Rate it.

Honorable Mention - $200 each

Anansi (Justin Sharps, Luke Urban, Tyler Williams)
Searching for a movie not in the database? This searches Wikipedia Info Boxes for the movie and adds it to the database. Lots of back-end magic.
CINEMATCH (Jeffrey Guo, Tian Ong)
An online dating site to match people based on their favorite movies. Slick drag and drop user interface for reordering movie preferences. Will you find your true love on CINEMATCH?
Movie Trends Database (Deirdre Connolly and Matthew Ince)
This site implemented the Levenshtein edit distance algorithm to match queries with database entires, and it gives impressive results specially for partial strings.

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