Screen Sponge: Connecting you with shows you want

Authors

Jason Brownlee and Craig Baker from the mayhem method team.

History

Screen Sponge was developed primarily by Jason Brownlee and Craig Baker of mayhem method in August 2008. It was launched at then end of August 2008 on the domain screensponge.com and remained active until late 2008 when it was decommissioned. In August 2009, the stakeholders in the project agreed to make the source code and assets open source under the MIT License on github.

Detail

Screen Sponge is a movie management web site where you manage all the movies and television shows you have, want, and have seen. Screen Sponge provides an online community, connecting your broader circle of friends to trade shows they have that you want, write reviews, and discus the shows you love.

Signing up to Screen Sponge is free, and Amazon advertisements are shown on each show details page. The core competition include the minimal movie management features on IMDb and the elaborate show management on Flickster. The competitive advantage of Screen Sponge is the focus on wanting and having shows and allowing users to make requests for shows on their social graph.

(below is from the landing page)

Welcome to Screen Sponge, soak up movies and TV shows!

• Track shows you’re watching
• Swap shows with your friends
• Discover something to watch

Up and Running

1. Acquire a copy of the codebase (download or clone the git repository)
2. Create (rake db:create), initialize (rake db:migrate), and populate (rake db:populate) the mysql database
3. Start the web application (script/server)
4. Access the web application via http://localhost:3000
   1. A default user is login=jason.brownlee05@gmail.com password=jasonb

Technology

The application was developed using Ruby on Rails 2.1.0 and an array of plug-ins (installed) and gems (avatar and html5).

Screenshots

Home page:

Movie Details Page:

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008-2009, Jason Brownlee and Craig Baker

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without
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copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
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