CyberCinema: The Adventure Begins

Throughout this book, we will use a fictitious Web site, CyberCinema, as an example. Let's say an ambitious entrepreneur has managed to bamboozle some venture capitalists out of a few million bucks to help him start his business: an online movie review site. Maybe he just quit his job as a movie reviewer at a prestigious national newspaper. He knows all about movie reviews and the film industry. He's hired a talented editorial staff, a designer, and one techie—that's you.

Your mission is to create the technical infrastructure for this company. The immediate requirements are clear: Build the Web site. But you know from talking to your new boss that you may want to syndicate these movie reviews to other Web sites ...

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