A social movie mashup

Born out of inquisitiveness this is the result of my experiments with Twitter API and Blogger Gadget development platform. Here I present a social movie watchlist where you can share the list of all the movies that you have watched recently. And for that you don't even have to revisit the app every time and add any new movie that you have watched. What you simply need is to tweet the name of the movie with a hash-tag "#watching".

So If you are

1. a movie buff
2. an avid tweeter
3. and you own a blog

Available only for Blogger at present (Wordpress plugin coming soon !), then this gadget is a keeper. Just integrate it with your blog and share the names of the last few movies that you have watched with all your blog visitors.

Currently this gadget will read few of your last tweets and find the tweets with tags "#watching" or "#watched" extract the name of the movie from tweet and display it. If you have mentioned any link into the tweet then it will link the name of that page with the name of the movie. So what you can do is tweet the name of the movie together with url of its website or the url of its IMDB page and the rest will be taken care by this widget.

In order to install this gadget got to your Blogspot blog's dashboard. Open Page element tab and click on "Add a Gadget". Now select "Add your own" on the left hand sidebar of the new window and enter "http://www.saketsaurabh.in/twitter/blogger/" in the text-box. Click "Add by URL" and here you go. Now edit the settings of Gadget and click on save. You have successfully installed this ne Gadget.

Now you are ready to share while you watch a new movie. Just remember to tweet every time you are watching one.