Help

Getting started

  1. Get a Twitter account (it's free!)
  2. If your Twitter updates are protected you'll need to follow @oo5.
  3. For Out of Five to pick up your reviews you need to tweet a thing, score out of five and a comment using the following format: @oo5 thing score review
    Have a look over there on the right hand side for some examples. Or, if you have a spare moment, read over the conventions.
  4. Use Twitter to send reviews via SMS, Instant Messenger or a web browser... Woo!

The idea

I was getting annoyed with my inability to remember exactly what I thought of gigs and films by the following morning... so I set about making a little service that would let me text gig and movie reviews while on the bus home.

The result was Out of Five, a little service that grabs reviews from Twitter.

Contact

If you want to get in touch drop an email to oo5 [at] donotremove [dot] co [dot] uk.

Roadmap

Out of Five is in its infancy right now; it's a very long way from finished. Amongst the dozens of things waiting to be added, here are some of the highlights:

  • Feeds for pretty much everything
  • A simple API
  • Microformats
  • Search
  • Widgets
  • More information about reviewed items
  • Recommendations

Examples

  1. @oo5 Alice in Wonderland 3.0 a bit disappointed, not sure why - maybe needs more magic and less camp? yesterday by jberkel
  2. @oo5 Alice in Wonderland 3.9 A bit scattered, but a fun and quirky revisiting of my favourite story. Mar 11th by phae
  3. @oo5 Inglorious Basterds 4.2 Western-style war caper. Brutal but compelling, with plenty of twists. Tarantino's definitely got a swagger to him. Mar 8th by mikesten
  4. @oo5 Dieter Rams at the Design Museum 4.5 His work might look even more current now, despite being 50 years old. The guy's a legend. Mar 7th by mikesten
  5. @oo5 Daybreakers 2.8 Good idea and stylish but it just wasn't very engaging with mediocre performances from good actors and an incomplete plot. Mar 7th by mikesten