SiggiRates.com

So I am a big fan of imdb.  A bit too obsessive I would say. Everytime before I go out for a movie, I would go on imdb to look up the ratings before I go out to see the movies. I love imdb; I wished there would be a database for everything in the world so I could go and check out the ratings before I go out and do/buy/try that thing. Like a database for rating classes, sunglasses, today’s weather, the Burger king in Charlottesville, etc.This come to my idea of Siggirates – an online central database for ratings; a search platform for users to search and rate literally anything — by anything I mean everything: consumer products, user experiences, relationships, emotions, anything that can exist in whatever form. It is a concept I have over winter break as I sit in front of my computer intensively trying to find ratings of all the things that I want to do.I proposed this idea to my art professor; she loved it. She loved it so much that she allows me to work on this as an art project – yayer. So during the course of this half year I will be working on making the graphical interface for the system, as this is what I like to do and what I hope to do best. I will be posting examples of my design work as I constantly upgrade my progress.  Here’s the  link to the first prototype of the first page (only the search/rate/login interface, no working functions yet):www.people.virginia.edu/~shw9s/siggirates2.swfI have also made several prototype of the siggirates logo which you will see here: 

Talk by Richard Stallman @ UVa

Richard Stallman. The legendary founder of the GNU. Great jokes and great theories about free softwares and taking back control from the programmers.