Thanks for the kind words, Kary! We always love the youtube:myspace as blip:facebook comparison :)
In terms of your questions: * The "Back To" won't appear unless you end up watching another video in the Show Player. The Show Player is capable of showing you the next episode right there in the same page, and you can also click into the Guide and watch some other show without navigating to another Web page. If you do this the "Back To" button will appear so that you can get your bearings and return to the episode that belongs in the page. * The thumbnails directly to the right of the video are the episodes of the show you're watching. If you're watching an episode of Mahalo Daily, those will be Mahalo Daily thumbs. They're the "wrapping" episodes -- meaning the episodes directly prior to and directly after the episode you're watching, just like on Flickr. You can navigate through all of the show's episodes in that widget. * The "Hand Picked" thumbnails are all handpicked by blip staff. The basic idea is that we'll be offering a level of human editorial guidance to users. We've found so far that this is an extremely effective way of keeping people engaged and watching video. So far it seems to be more effective than any other method. When we add these "Hand Picked" episodes to episode pages we're anticipating a really big boost for the featured episodes. * The "Do Something" dropdown is designed to be a way to elegantly present the huge number of things you can "do" with the episode or the show. The default position of the dropdown is "Embed with the Show Player." You can also "Subscribe with iTunes" and "Subscribe with Miro", "Share with E-mail", et cetera. -----Original Message----- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kary Rogers Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:31 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: New BlipTV show page preview I like it. You've managed to get a lot of information and functionality on a page that is still clean and not overwhelming to the user. Questions I have are: -To the left of the title "MD011 - Surf Lesson" is what appears to be a link "Back To:." If I'm on the episode page, what does it go back to? -The thumbnails to the right of the video are other episodes for Mahalo Daily? -The thumbnails below that are "Hand Picked." Does that mean the show owner can choose which videos show up in that box? Or does "Hand Picked" mean "featured" by the blip staff? I wouldn't mind a more obvious embed option though I'm curious to see what else is in the drop down boxes under "Do Something." I'm looking forward to the release coming out. My thoughts and questions are just based on the screenshot so they could change. As far as the YouTube comparison, maybe he means in basic layout. Comments under video and a sidebar with other videos, etc. I'd say in terms design and ease of use, however, YouTube is to MySpace what blip is to Facebook. -- Kary Rogers http://www.GoodCommitment.tv On Jan 16, 2008 8:49 AM, mikehudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a screenshot of our new episode page, which is coming out soon. > > Do you like it? Not like it? I have to say I'm a bit puzzled by the > comparison to YouTube, but hey... > > Yours, > > Mike > blip.tv > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2183887280&size=l > > > Can anyone say "YouTube"? > > > > where did you get that screenshot? > > what URL? > > > > jay > > > > > > > > -- > > http://jaydedman.com > > 917 371 6790 > > Professional: http://ryanishungry.com > > Personal: http://momentshowing.net > > Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
