IndiePix and NetworkedPlanet Launch Discovery - Knowledge Based Navigation of Independent Film

New York, US and Oxford, UK - October 17, 2007- IndiePix, the ultimate resource for independent film fans and filmmakers, and NetworkedPlanet, the leader in topic mapped file management and search systems, today announce the launch and availability of the world's largest intelligent database of curated independent films that uses state-of-the-art web technology to power the service. Underlying the presentation of over 3,000 titles, Discovery enables film lovers to discover and explore the world's best films from independent filmmakers, as well as order and download films of interest on the IndiePix website (www.IndiepixFilms.com).   

Discovery is a revolutionary, intelligent navigation system. It allows the IndiePix team of film experts to manage information about a film and to add information based on their expertise and the system creates relevant, content-based links between films. The graphical display based on this process is designed specifically to expand user choices by helping create intelligent pathways through the large and growing world of independent film.

"The process expands choices in ways that are unexpected and opens up paths for exploring IndiePix's rapidly growing catalogue of film titles," says Bob Alexander, president, IndiePix. "There are a variety of so-called 'recommendation engines' that suggest films a consumer may like, but we suggest choices that are related to a consumer's starting point."

The Discovery process is powered by NetworkedPlanet's TMCore information management engine, a topic mapping system that identifies, calculates, and manages the relationships among the films in the database in an enterprise database. In the IndiePix implementation, the TMCore engine is managing well over 200,000 relationships among 3,000 titles, and the number of relationships expands exponentially as new films are added.

"TMCore is a server platform for enterprise knowledge and information management applications; it stores and manages 'topic maps' of the entire content of the IndiePix website. This map is then the basis for driving the Discovery display," says Kal Ahmed, co-founder, NetworkedPlanet. "TMCore delivers a detailed index of information resources across systems via a single unified information portal, and IndiePix's implementation led to the development of special algorithms to weigh and manage the data as part of the display process."

The Discovery process can be launched from the IndiePix website at www.indiepix.net/discovery.

A flash presentation summarising the Discovery process from a users point of view will be available soon on the corporate information page at the IndiePix website at www.indiepix.net/info/press.

About IndiePix
Committed to bridging the gap between the independent filmmaker and those passionate about independent film, IndiePix delivers the best selection of independent film from around the world. IndiePix provides film enthusiasts with exclusive video filmmaker interviews, blogging from the global festival circuit, and weekly news and views on trends, technology, and talent from the independent film world. For more information, please visit www.IndiePixFilms.com.

About NetworkedPlanet
NetworkedPlanet was formed in 2004 to develop topic map processing tools and applications specifically for the Microsoft .NET framework. The company's first product, TMCore05, was released in January 2005. NetworkedPlanet provides a suite of tools and products to organise and structure the access to information to make it easier to locate and more relevant to end-users. It provides a range of tools scaling up from work-group information management to full-scale commercial websites and enterprise content management systems.

For more information, please visit www.networkedplanet.com

Bob Alexander
President
IndiePix
Tel: 1 212-684-2333
bob@indiepix.net

Kal Ahmed
Founder
NetworkedPlanet Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 811131
kal.ahmed@networkedplanet.com

Louise Sambells
ThePressOffice,
PR for NetworkedPlanet
Tel: +44 (0) 1780 721433
lsambells.pressoffice@targetwire.com


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