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Trusted Opinion Leverages Social Recommendations to Reveal 2007's Top Movies

Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:00am EST
  PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 31 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
 Trusted Opinion (www.TrustedOpinion.com) has published the results of 2007's
top-rated movies according to its 500,000 member-strong community.

    Trusted Opinion is a free online community that brings people and their
network
of friends together to share opinions and receive personalized recommendations
around
movies, TV shows, and DVDs. The company's Social Recommendation Engine(TM)
weighs the opinions of people in the user's social network highest to deliver
more relevant recommendations that are targeted to user's preferences and
tastes.

    Movie opinions are by their nature, highly personal, and traditional
critic's top-ten
lists do a poor job in providing reliable recommendations to diverse, global
audiences.
Because Trusted Opinion delivers recommendations based on the opinions of a
person's peer group, demographic factors such as age, gender, and geographic
location
are automatically factored into the recommendation.


 Top 2007 Movies rated by women under 34 years old

    1. Freedom Writers

    2. American Gangster

    3. I Am Legend

    4. Pirates of the Caribbean 3

    5. High School Musical 2

    6. Ratatouille

    7. California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)

    8. 4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile

    9. Stomp the Yard

    10. 88 Minutes


 Top 2007 Movies rated by men under 34 years old

    1. The Bourne Ultimatum

    2. Hitman

    3. Live Free or Die Hard

    4. In the Land of Women

    5. Pirates of the Caribbean 3

    6. Superbad

    7. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

    8. The Simpsons Movie

    9. I Am Legend

    10. American Gangster


 Trusted Opinion's most popular films of 2007 based on the
most ratings:


 1. Pirates of the Caribbean 3
 2. Spider-Man 3
 3. Shrek the Third
 4. Ghost Rider
 5. Bridge to Terabithia
 6. Transformers
 7. Live Free or Die Hard
 8. Ratatouille
 9. Next
10. The Bourne Ultimatum

    
Trusted Opinion's platform also drives recommendations and interest in
movies from back-catalogs:

    Trusted Opinion's most popular films of all time based on the most ratings
from
any year:


 1. Gladiator
 2. Forrest Gump
 3. Pirates of the Caribbean 3
 4. Braveheart
 5. Ice Age
 6. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 7. Spider-Man 3
 8. The Shawshank Redemption
 9. Shrek
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    
Trusted Opinion has members in 150 countries, and U.S.-resident
member'stop-rated movies skew differently than the over-all top rated movies.

    Trusted Opinion's Top 10 movies, as rated by USA residents from 2007:


 1. Hairspray
 2. The Nanny Diaries
 3. Transformers
 4. Resident Evil: Extinction
 5. Freedom Writers
 6. Halloween
 7. Disturbia
 8. Knocked Up
 9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. Ratatouille

    
Trusted Opinion's Social Recommendation Engine(TM) uniquely promotes
therecommendation of content across genres and decades. The youthfulness of
Trusted Opinion's member base, 83 percent are under 34, is evident when
compared to the traditional critics top-ten lists, which are dominated by
the drama genre (critic's awards: Awards Daily).

    About Trusted Opinion

    Trusted Opinion's Social Recommendation Engine(TM) drives consumer
confidence by
generating more trusted, reliable, and personalized recommendations based on the
opinions of your network of friends.

    The TrustedOpinion.com community currently includes a half million members
and is
growing by thousands of members each day. Trusted Opinion is a privately
funded company headquartered in Palo Alto.

    

Press Contact:
Rebecca Reeve
FutureWorks, Inc.
(415) 240-8951
Email Contact

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