Vodpod Blog

This weekend, we launched a new version of the Vodpod.com site.

It’s the most sweeping set of changes we’ve made to the service since we launched 17 months ago.

We’ve tried to do two main things:

1. Help you discover new videos you might like by connecting you to other members with similar interests and tastes.

2. Make everything a lot simpler.

The best thing to do at this point is login, and experience the changes for yourself.

But, for those of you who’d like more detail, a few screenshots and some explanatory information follows.

You’ll find that your Pod page is much simpler. At it’s heart is a reverse-chronological list of the videos you’ve collected recently.

We no longer have categories and tags; just tags, now (if you added categories, don’t worry, they’ve been converted to tags). If you have a large collection, visitors to your pod will be able to browse through it more easily than before, by tag.

When your visitors click to watch a video, they’ll see a page like this:

The new video page shows all of the activity on Vodpod related to that video; who collected it and who commented on it, links that will often take you to other members who might have collections you like.

We also now provide a handy “related” videos list — it’s addictive, though, once you start clicking you can’t stop…

Another addictive way to browse videos is through our new “tag” pages:

You can browse through videos collected by Vodpod members by tag, visit related tags, or the collections of members who have collected the most videos for that tag.

In the end, all of these new connections to other members should help you to find people on Vodpod who collect videos you like. When you find such a member, follow them. When you do, you’ll be able to