[uf-discuss] IMDb contact wanted (for advocacy)

[Scott Reynen]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> I'd like to do some advocacy work with the Internet Movie Database,  
> but
> they don't advertise any useful contacts on their website. Does anyone
> have one?

I find IMDB one of the most frustrating sites on the web.  They have  
so much great data and they've made it nearly impossible to do  
anything interesting with it.  So microformats on IMDB would be great.

You may have already found these:

http://imdb.com/help/licensing/contact
http://imdb.com/helpdesk/contact

This page recommends the latter contact for general questions:

http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?phonenumber

Here's a similar site to IMDB you may also want to approach:

http://jameshome.com/freebase/fmdb/

That's based on Freebase which has all sorts of microformat-ready  
data under Creative Commons:

http://www.freebase.com/

Peace,
Scott