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Recommendations are being overhauled

Thursday April 30, 2009

We released a new recommendations feature on Tuesday afternoon.  The reason for the feature is simple: we want to get more shows more viewers.

After having the feature out in the wild for a day, though, we’ve decided that we can do a better job with it.  We need to make it clearer how you can find more episodes of the same show you’re watching.  We need to make sharing in the “endcap” (the screen that appears after a video plays) easier.  We need to make it clearer that we’re recommending shows other than the one you’re watching.  We also need to make it easier for show creators to opt out of recommendations.

We’re going to be pulling back the recommendations implementation in a few minutes.  It will be coming back in a week or two better than ever: Recommendations 2.0.

Tags: recommendations

6 notes:

  1. bliptv reblogged this from mikehudack
  2. spytap reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    This is why Blip.tv is as successful as it is (emphasis mine.)
  3. whitneymcn reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    I’m impressed — absolutely the right thing to do, but a tough decision.
  4. mikehudack reblogged this from bliptv and added:
    Sometimes you move too quickly at start-ups....moved too quickly
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