The Web 2.0 TV guide by Rakesh from Codewalla, an endeavor to build a comprehensive e-TV guide for India, is really in its embryonic stages. The idea emerged from a sense of loss of a good TV Guide in India that provided schedules well in advance, provided promos, reviews and basically the works.
It yet has no tie up with any major TV Channels so as to pull this information and make it useful, or to get hold of some promos..
A bunch of ideas that popped up during the presentation were - email/sms alerts for shows, customizing your area with favorites, making the API useful to social networking portals like Facebook(already intergrates similarly with Goodreads and many other things), ratings, reviews, 'what is my friend watching' and allowing users to buy/download shows.
Web 2.0 concepts are very enthralling, and give a whole new dimension to the internet.
The TV Guide, when glued together finally should make some lives simpler.
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