Clerkdogs

http://www.appscout.com/2009/01/clerkdogs_helps_you_find_good_1.php

http://www.clerkdogs.com/

The top link is to an article on AppScout.com called "Clerkdogs helps you find good movies." Clerkdogs is a website that is developed upon thousands of movie recommendations from video clerks. Much like Netflix's or Blockbuster's websites, Clerkdogs provides recommendations based on movies you enjoy. It goes a step further, however, by allowing the user to choose the degree of a number of movie characteristics he/she may feel like watching. This allows a real time recommendation based on personal taste and current mood. As compared to Netflix, which makes a recommendation based on how many stars you rated various movies over a time span of several years.
Clerkdogs furthurs its scope by linking all of the information on its website to Netflix, Internet Movie Database, Blockbuster, and Amazon. If a user has a Netflix account, they could find a movie to watch on Clerkdogs and have the movie easily added to their Queue. With Netflix adding more and more "Watch Instantly" films, the potential is there for a movie to be discovered and viewed within a short time frame. This plays into the site's feature of selecting a movie based on mood. Additionally, Clerkdogs allows the user to easily research and purchase a movie or TV show through its link with Amazon.
Clerkdogs demonstrates how a third party site can integrate itself into more mainstream websites and still provide a service that users find interesting and helpful. It will be interesting to see whether a large number of people choose to use an additional recommendation service to search for movies. Netflix currently has the ability to make recommendations based on an individual's data compared to the data of millions of other users. The law of large numbers favors Netflix, however, Clerkdogs presents some fresh applications that are a definiate advantage.