This is an opportunity to be involved with a very exciting project.
The site will be TV meets Twitter. Visitors will sign-in with their existing Twitter account and then can search for their TV shows that they have been watching.
They can then select that they have watched the show, and they can also give it a 5 star rating as well as a 100 character review. They can also do the same with each season and individual episode of a show.
Whenever they watch/rate/review a show, it will be posted to their Twitter feed, along with a link to the site so their Twitter followers can see the show info and review for themselves.
Viewers will be able to select on each page either reviews from people they’re following, or everyone’s reviews.
The site will have a bright, clean design; lots of AJAX etc… and should be built with future popularity and expansion in mind.
All of the TV data will be pulled from TheTVdb.com, which has an XML api.
The back-end of the site will be designed with the large amount of TV shows and potential users in mind, and will allow for manual editing of data as well as allowing visitors to report inappropriate reviews to the admin team.
The above will be the beta version of the site, which is what the programmer will be expected to build. However, the beta site marks the start of what I hope will be a good working relationship, which will lead to the development of may additional features of the website, including the integration of TV listings, viewing on-demand and much more.