Silos, silos, we don't need no stinkin silos!

By Dave Winer on 1/2/07; 5:30:05 PM.

Doc has given the go-ahead on the open movie rating project as the first Vendor Relationship Management application.  

I wrote it up on 9/30/06. 

It was made necessary because the two movie services I use the most, Yahoo and Netflix, won't share my ratings with each other. That's no good. So I'm going to start from scratch, and create an XML file that lists all the movies I've rated with both services.  

It's going to take some doing because they won't even show me a list of all the movies I've rented.  

Now that's evil!  

Postscript: Well, I have to take it back. Netflix does have a way for you to see your previously rated movies. Only in HTML, not in a format that you can export, but at least it's a start. Still don't know of a way to see my previous ratings on Yahoo Movies.