This is our start-up story…
In: New Features
3 Aug 2010You might not have noticed, but we recently released a new feature on our site that let’s you track what movies you and your friends own. On each movie page, you’ll now see a button to mark “i own this.”
Once you’ve marked a movie as owned, it will now appear in your profile when friends [...]
In: New Features
31 Jan 2010Sharing and finding the best sites for movies just got a little easier. We recently added a new module to our movie pages that allows registered users to upload cool links about a movie. Now you can find and share official sites, wikipedia articles, review sites, gossip pages and much more. Enjoy
In: New Features
23 Jan 2010Are you looking for an easy way to see what your friends are watching? Click the new link on your profile page to add your followers’ activity in Google Reader!
Now you can quickly see what your followers have rated and want to watch!
In: New Features
28 Sep 2009The more you participate on Hellomovies, the closer you get to winning prizes like t-shirts and movie tickets. Think you can become a Godfather of film? Start rating movies today!
In: New Features
11 Jun 2009We rolled out two highly requested features this week.
Movie Compatibility!
And Not Interested!
Now when you visit another person’s profile page, we’ll tell you how compatible you are with that person’s movie tastes. So if you’re ever looking for a special someone to watch a movie with, now you’ll know just who to choose. Hieu, I’m afraid [...]
In: Algorithms| Movies| New Features| Research
27 May 2009Dr. Dolittle is probably not the first movie that comes to mind when you think of an action-packed movie. But to some people (i.e. our moms who once fed and may still feed us), Dr. Dolittle certainly could be considered an action-packed comedy.
Understanding how most people interpret films is one of the hardest challenges for [...]
In: New Features
21 Jan 2009We rolled out a new release of the website today! Now before any of our current users start to panic, let us spend a few lines of text to explain the changes we’ve made on HelloMovies.
A Major Update
We spent all our effort on this new release to make finding a movie to watch as simple [...]
In: New Features
6 Oct 2008We pushed a few changes to the live site on Friday. The biggest update is Invites! If you’re a HelloMovies user, you now have 3 invites that you can send to friends. We’ll of course increase this number over time as we get closer and closer to launch.
We also added a few more [...]
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30 Jul 2008We’re working on friends functionality right now. It’s super exciting, and I can’t wait to add all of my hellomovies friends! But for some people, it’s not so exciting…
We are a movie startup, and this is our story.