LocateTV Blog

Shout it from the rooftops: the latest site updates are now live. In addition to the amendments in the change log there is a new (hidden) search page for you to use which is trialling our improved search function.
I almost want to put this whole post in bold, with lots of exclamation marks, but I’ll [...]

So, we have a compromise. Thanks to all the feedback from our private beta triallists we’ve come up with an embed design mark 2 which seems to accommodate the majority of the comments we’ve received: simpler, smaller and less prominently branded with darker colours. Of course it’s not perfect, and this isn’t the absolute finished [...]

The eminent meeja guru David Lieberman has posted an article about the rebranding of US cable networks at USA Today.
As the cable TV market gets increasingly crowded, David reports on how channels desperate to secure a memorable identity are renaming and repositioning themselves to better identify with their viewers and clarify their brand. In many [...]

There are entertainment blogs, and then there are entertaining blogs. Unusually, Blogzarro is both. Like being tucked in Superman’s pocket for an exhilerating ride through the technicolor sky above Sin City towards the boudoir of Jessica Alba, this cult centre for all that is comics, movies, TV and bizarre humour is exhilerating and provoking in [...]

It seems obvious that to produce a great service, you should begin by asking the people who are going to use it what they want.
This has always been one of our leading principles in evolving LocateTV, but in all honesty we did not realise quite how effective and even enjoyable a way of working it [...]

See how this genuinely collborative Web 2.0 (or are we on 3.0 now?) consumer-as-CEO business model works?
You say you want smaller, better, different LocateTV embeds. We say: Rob, go design us some smaller, better, different embeds. Rob says: here they are. We say: valued LocateTV users, here they are! What do you think? Are they [...]

Our aim to bring all programming information from various locations (US, UK, different providers and channels) and media (DVD, online, TV) into one simple hub that makes it relevant and up-to-date and searchable for each user, wherever they are and whatever they like, means that we spend most of this private beta time nailing the [...]

More blogging about LocateTV, this time from technology trailblazer Dameon Welch-Abernathy at The PhoneBoy Blog.
Using the site to find out the next US showing of his son’s new favourite show Dirty Jobs, Dameon also comments that:

In a happy coincidence, we should have a ‘new series starting this week’ panel on the front page of the [...]

After some initial frustrations, we hope our private beta testers are finding the site much more responsive this week - the speed should now be pretty seamless except for the occasional hour. This occurs when all the data which our development team have been refining, changing and adding is transferred en masse to the front [...]