Wednesday, September 17, 2008

We just made recommendations much better!

We're hitting our stride!

One of the biggest feedback items centers around the quality of the recommendations we're offering. Last night, we believe we took a big bite out of refining the search within Amazon and now our recommendations really nail it.

For example, in the past, if you wanted to look for items centered around 'Lost' and selected 'DVD', you would have to scroll through a couple screens to get to actually get to the 'Lost' season DVDs .

With the new updated, when you type 'Lost' and select 'DVD - Title' (shown below), the results will show the Lost TV show first.



Another example, on the 'Getting Started' tab, we added new text fields to help refine what recommendations we can offer. For example, the user can move the Beastie Boys from 'Music' to 'Music - Artist' and get much better results.



Thank you all for the great feedback and special thanks to the following: Milt R., Stokes, Jen S., Brett R., Yen T. and all others that helped get this feature on the radar. We're really listening!


Stay tuned, we have some really big ideas a-coming...

-- BaconMarathon team

Monday, September 15, 2008

We just helped launch a new Skinny Songs special offer...!

We just worked with Heidi to introduce a new "special offer" to get the song 'Skinny Jeans' free on itunes!

To get the song and see the widget we created in action, go to: http://www.skinnysongs.com


...and click on the offer. (example, within the red square pictured below)