Reflections on UIR Practical 1

Newsgroups and discussion list
http://www.talk-movies.com/

This movie lovers community to discuss the latest movies, get movie reviews from movie-goers and talk about your favorite movies. The forum also features a marketplace to buy and sell movies. The website itself has various forums for discussion like “At The Theater” will show movies that are now showing and coming soon. If you are looking for a particular genre movie, for example my favourite is action and, you can view the Action and Adventure to discover more about recent and past movies. A great website for movie lovers like me.

Electronic journals and magazine
http://www.moviespotmag.com/

The Moviespot magazine is all about movies , Its movie magazine And can be downloading in PDF Format , So if you have free time and like to know when the movies will come you can use it as your movie guide , the most feature of the moviespot film Ezine is that show you the films release dates of the full year of the year and films of the year , film news, previews and reviews.

Multi-media source
http://www.watch-movies.net

This website allows me to watch very various genre of movies because it is a legal site that contain only links to other sites on the Internet : ( rapidshare.com, megaupload.com, megashare(s), mega, dailymotion.com, myspace.com, ouou.com, stage6.com, tudou.com, veoh.com, youku.com, youtube.com and others.. )

This site is not hosting, not uploading movie files, but search & collect movie files from the internet. Any broken file can be fixed by find another copy elsewhere and updated constantly.
Ever since I discovered this site through my friends, I am getting more updated with movies that are both shown in Singapore as well as those that are exclusively in United States only. It’s encyclopedia of movies range from the latest movie to movies I have enjoyed in my early childhood. Most of all, it’s a free website.

WWW site
http://www.imdb.com

Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel.The IMDb website consists of the largest accumulation of data about filmsand others. In many cases, the information goes beyond simple title or press credits to include complete cast and crew credits, uncredited personnel, production and distribution companies, plot summaries, memorable quotes, awards, reviews, box office performance, filming locations, technical specs, promotional content, and links to official and other websites.

Furthermore, the IMDb tracks titles in production, including major announced projects still in development. The database also houses filmographies for all persons, cast and crew, identified in listed titles. Site visitors wishing only to view information without accessing interactive features can do so without registration. Database content is largely provided and updated by a cadre of volunteer contributors; although 20 members of the IMDb staff are dedicated to monitoring received data.

Upon completition of this Practical, I understand how to identify and compare different categories of Internet resources. The information we got are basically somehow similar. This actually depends on how well each of the site is updated. Basically it’s information on the movies, reviews, thrillers, if possible some sites even provide link to official sites.

The difference is the findings is that each of us may have different preference to choose from the large variety of choices in the internet. Hence, the resource or the URL of the site is very different. Still the findings we found were able to suit the different categories of Internet resources and therefore the resource description may differ a little too.