Posts Tagged ‘jinni’

Today Jinni, taste-and-mood based discovery engine for TV and movies, has announced that Microsoft has licensed their semantic video discovery technology.

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Online taste-and-mood based movie and TV recommendation engine Jinni just closed $5 million in Series B funding, led by Belgacom and a Tier-1 connected-TV manufacturer.

How would you like to search your TV Guide according to your mood? Users in Belgium now have this option with the latest investment by Belgacom, the largest telecommunications company in Belgium, with Jinni.com, a movie and TV search engine and recommendation site. This addition to Belgacom will enable viewers to search for Web TV [...]

These days, with the selection of online video content quickly expanding, it can be difficult to decide what to watch next. Jinni.com is here to ease the headache of deciding what to watch online, filtering out content according to users’ personal taste. Search for content by mood, plot, genre and more to find out what [...]

What do you want to watch tonight? I don’t know. What do you want to rent? I don’t care.

We’ve all been there. Well this new Web site, Jinni.com, helps make the decision a bit easier. As they refer to it, their “movie genome project” helps match up users to movies and TV shows by sorting through the experience (mood and tone) and the story (plot). The creators of the website refer to it as “an internet application designed to fit how people relate to movies and TV”, not as a social networking site. Read more