What a lot of cool stuff to explore! I was of course already familiar with YouTube, but I had not used hulu or fancast before. On YouTube, I looked at some of the ways libraries are promoting themselves, and there's a lot of innovation there. I'm sure that some of these videos will help libraries reach a wider audience than they might otherwise have been able to reach. I looked briefly at a couple of videos on sewing from the authors of a website called threadbangers.com. It was certainly not your mother's sewing lesson. They might entice some young people to try sewing for the first time. And, because I had a customer request on the topic this week, I looked for videos on parallel parking and found many relevant clips.
I looked at some brief clips on hulu and later watched an episode of "Monk" on Fancast. I was very impressed with the video quality. Everything seemed to go smoothly, with very few interruptions or glitches. And with the episode of Monk that I watched, there were a few brief commercials, but nothing terribly intrusive. I notice that at the time of this posting, we have 72 people waiting for Monk Season Six. I could see recommending to customers that they try using fancast if they need a fix of Monk (or other available programs) before they can get the DVDs from the library.
I plan to use all three of these sites at home--there's a lot that interests me. And I can recommend the sites to library customers, especially those who have home computers. For long movies, it wouldn't work well to watch them at the library because of our time limits, but for material that's less than an hour in length, it should still work OK. And now we have headphones to lend to customers. So I think these are really useful sites to know about. This was my favorite assignment yet!
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Since you were kind enough to note Fancast in a previous post, we wanted you to be among the very first to know that a new and improved Fancast has JUST launched - and it's one we think you and your audience will really enjoy. We will, of course, have the same great content (thousands and thousands of hours of free full length TV programs and movies) but they come in what we think is a much better user experience.
Everything from...
*a new video player
*an embeddable player
*a new movie page
*a new trailers page
*a new clips page
*ability to get/send email alerts to remind you when a TV show or movie is on so you will never have to miss it
...those are just some of the new features we are launching.
We heard our readers suggestions and we made it happen.
We are looking to have everything perfect for just after Labor Day, but, as a Fancast veteran, we wanted you to be among the first to tell us what you think about the new Fancast.
We are very serious about reacting to the ongoing feedback we get, and we think you will be pleased with the new version. But we're not done yet. Take a look at the changes we made and please let us know what you think, and if there's anything we can do to improve it even more.
Thanks again for your continued support on this site!!
Jim for
www.fancast.com
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