15 May, 2009
Alright, even though we post an update about tvb series being down almost a week ago to various social networks, many people still contacting us about this problem. Apparently not everyone is using those services, or even bother clicking on those links to see the updates, so we’re stating it here … again.
The problem is only relating to new tvb series on OD only. (You can thanks tvb international for that.) Older videos, and those on OP are unaffected … at least, for now.
Again, videos are posted by volunteers and fans. It’s up to them to determine what and when to update. Our staffs will only help out when we have some time. So if you want videos to be updated faster, please consider helping them out. If not, please be patient and check the status updates. Those videos will be updated in due time.
Update: Most new tvb series are fixed. The rest will updated in time.
6 May, 2009
In an ongoing effort to better connect with our viewers, we have taken another step with our social experiment. Although we have have a myspace account for over 2 years, it never really take off. Many have also suggested that we create a facebook account so that they can befriend us, which we have procrastinated … until now.
We started using Google Friend Connect as a test to see if people would join the site, even though we don’t require people to sign up to view the videos at all. We believe that the reason that the FC work wells is because it’s more integrated with the site, making it more useful to our viewers then simply just add a link to it.
As you might have noticed, we have added 4 new icons below the FC member badge on the front page. Since most of our members are using at least one of those services, we will be using them to push out our updates. It’s a feature that lots of people have been asking for, and now you can get real time video updates through your favorite network. You can also discuss and share with other members as well.
We’ve sent out a first wave of friend requests to Facebook and Mypace. Myspace has less options, so the list was smaller. We’ll continue to send out requests from time to time. If you didn’t receive a request, you can just add us directly. We’ll be using both public and personal profiles on FB until we reach the “friend limit”, then we’ll be using the public one only. I think they currently limit it to 5000 friends, so that will take a while. Remember, you can always reject our requests or remove us later on if you wish … there’s no hard feeling … we promise 
Update 5/9/2009: We have now added a option to leave comment using Facebook. Now you can use either Google FC or Facebook to leave comments for the videos.
