Hey guys,

Just launched a small site on the side with a small team and we're looking for a group of beta users to play around with the site and give feedback.

The Site:

http://www.thinkingsmartr.com

The Lowdown:

Thinkingsmartr is (hoping to become) the world's largest, collaborative suggestion box. The site allows you to create any topic you want (by default, you become the editor of each topic you create) and encourages you and others to collectively make suggestions that would improve the topic.

Each suggestion is voted on by the community and the best suggestions float naturally to the top while the least important suggestions fall to the bottom. The hope is that with enough passionatte users discussing their ideas to better a topic --- people will take note and the best suggestions will actually take foot.

For instance, say you have a bunch of ideas to make TV.com better. Go ahead and start the TV.com topic and post some suggestions to help make TV.com a better place. Others can then come in and vote on your suggestions (as well as make suggestions of their own) and with any luck your suggestions will actually be implemented on the site (please note -- this is not a garauntee that all or any suggestions will be fulfilled -- but I will personally be keeping an eye on that particular topic ;)).

What we need:

A passionate group of users to play with the site and give us feedback on features you would like to see as well as bugs you come across as you use it. We also encourage you to spread the word --- as more get people involved, the more interesting and fun the site will be.

 

Thanks guys :)

We just optimized the 'Reviews' tab (and subtabs) across all showspaces. There are some lingering cache issues which should be cleared up shortly -- but let us know if these pages are loading faster for you - thx :)

We have found the bug and will be remedying it shortly. You will all have the appropriate contribution points for your submissions and correct editorships by tomorrow morning. Thank you for your patience. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Hey folks, we just pushed a small flash video player along with shows that have 5 or more videos attached to them.

Check it out on the Arrested Development showspace:
http://www.tv.com/arrested-development/show/17005/summary.html?tag=login;dropdown

Feedback or bugs as you see them - thanks.

Guys -> a quick update:

We just fixed a bug that was preventing you from submitting links with commas in the filename. So now, for instance - a link like:

http://people.aol.com/stories/230,3240,023.html

will submit properly. However, please note that commas are only allowed in the filename, and are not allowed anywhere else in the url. So, a link like:

http://people.aol.com/stories,goodstories/2303240023.html

will not work.

[video=IiM6xGOv5bgOujXc]

Wow, its been a long long time since I last posted but I just had to come out and say how excited I am for the much anticipated 6th season of the Sopranos. HBO has been playing re-runs non stop for the past 3 months to get everybody caught up and it has totally worked. I am so pumped for March 12th. On a side note - sorry I haven't been as active on TV.com lately.... I've be been working with a small on some new MP3.com features which should be wrapping up shortly. (I'll let you know more as we close in on a launch date). Take care TV.commers!

What up fools - just testing this feature on stage.

Just pushed a fix to the show stars/ep stars/ep crew forms..... As some of you may or may not know, if you try to attach a person to a show and you couldn't find the person using search, we gave you a little form to 'create a brand new star' while simultaneously attaching him/her to the show you were editing. THE BUG: What was happening was that while you were properly attaching this new person to the show, the person's full name was getting inserted into the database with two spaces between the first and last name (now fixed). This extra space causes our search to ignore the name, which is why these new people you're adding don't show up when you search for them. Anyway, I pushed out a fix about a half hour ago and I just wanted to give everybody an explanation as to what was going on and that it has been addressed. On a side note, we are caching the show stars/ep stars pages.... soooooo - if you make a submission in which you are attaching people to a show/ep and you go back to the cast page for the episode and those people are not showing up, it doesn't mean that they didn't get attached correctly -- in most cases, the submission went through successfuly but the page is cached, and therefore the new data isn't displaying. To check to see if the people you just attached are actually a part of that ep/show - click the Edit button again. Since this page is not cached, you should be able to see the true data in the database.

We are aware of this problem and are working on a fix right now. If you are seeing blank submissions or if you think you are submitting blank submissions - post back with why you think you are getting them.... We have it down to either, people are submitting, then hitting the Stop or Back button in their browser and then submitting again (so we only get half of a submission, but most of the fields are blank) or, when clicking the link that takes you back to the episode you were editing - if that page is funky, then it seems that you have just submitted a blank submission. Anyway, we are narrowing it down - if you have any thoughts, post back.