LocateTV Blog

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 [...]

It appears as though all the recent time spent improving the performance and stability of LocateTV has starting paying off. Following a late night, load testing session yesterday, the measured response times for both returning search results and serving show information appear substantially faster, compared to the beginning of the week. We hope that our [...]

It’s been interesting to see how our private beta users are using LocateTV’s multi-region coverage. For example, some testers are switching to US mode to find out about the early DVD releases already available there, or because they have a Region 1 DVD player. This has lead to a request for users to see [...]

Scott Vine’s been blogging about LocateTV over at Information Overlord (including posting a couple of neat embeds, such as House - who doesn’t love Hugh Laurie in grizzled crippled genius mode?) Pushing on through despite the speed issues we’ve been having (thanks for being patient kids), Scott seems to think the site has good potential [...]

Media pioneer and all-round web entertainment guru Vlad Lodinski has posted a great article about LocateTV on his mediavladski blog. As an expert in his field, it’s great to know that he sees Locate as really filling a gap in the market:

He’s already let us know that he thinks searching by genre to be [...]

Conversation about LocateTV is already beginning to leak into the blogosphere thanks to our private beta testers.

We’ve had a nice mention on internet search specialist Phil Bradley’s blog, where he embeds a Heroes widget and considers that LocateTV has made a ‘good’ start with an ‘interesting’ concept. Of course, he points out that there’s still [...]

As we said in yesterday’s post, the vast majority of our private beta feedback involves enriching and refining the quality of our basic search function.
Long gone are the days when deciding between Google, Yahoo and Lycos to power your search seemed like a heady choice. We’re only too aware that the search engine market is [...]