Hello. Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer for Netflix here.
Do you love the indulgence of watching episode after episode of your favorite shows on Netflix?
Have you ever wished you could do the same with new shows when they premiere on TV?
Well, starting today, you can enjoy as many episodes as you please of the brand new Netflix Original Series “Lilyhammer,” starring Steven Van Zandt.
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Well as you may have noticed I turfed a lot of oooollllllddddd entries. Blog was starting to slow down. A lot. I even tried some of those cacheing plugins but they didn’t help. In fact they seemed to slow things down.
So I came to the conclusion that I should just delete posts older than 1 year old. I don’t need them anyways – things change so much that those would be irrelevant nowadays.
So I have this new plugin that will automagically delete posts older than 1 year. This should help keep the speed up.
Also, with recent changes to google reader, i can’t just share items and have the xml parsed by a plugin here. So I’ve had to make it a little more manual – using the “Press This” plugin I can achieve the same result, just takes a few seconds longer.
Thanks for checking me out and be sure to come back – i’ll be posting regular again now that i’ve solved my speed issues.
Rob
My two sons love watching shows they find in the Just for Kids section on Netflix. As a busy parent, I love that they can find great stuff to watch without my help. Now, we have made it even easier for youngsters to use this great section by making it available on Wii.
When you launch the Netflix app on Wii you can choose the Just for Kids section, letting the kids browse without worrying if they will come across content not intended for young viewers. Visit the Just for Kids section in the Netflix Wii app and you’ll find a world of TV shows and movies suitable for children 12 and under. With unlimited instant viewing my sons can watch as much Phineas and Ferb or Johnny Test as they want, without being interrupted by commercials.
David
David Watson is director of product innovation at Netflix, responsible for our family and kids stuff.
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The Facebook wall is our social document of record. Etched in rock like an Attic tablet, the things said on a wall provide a poignant look back at who said what, and when. Not anymore. Timeline lets you rewrite history.
I noticed today while trying to delete some banal crap off my wall that I was able to, via the new “Edit or Remove” pencil icon, change the date of someone else’s wall posting. So I did. I literally moved what she said back in time, to a month ago (albeit with a tiny clock icon indicating as much). Then I pushed further—I moved another friend’s wall post back to 2006, years before I would even meet her. Luckily, the space-time continuum seems to have maintained its integrity, but what the hell?
What a dishonest, bizarre feature! It must either be a bug or terrible design, because I can’t imagine any reason why it’d be in Facebook’s interests as a social network to allow us to completely revise our social history. Timeline is about life events, such as “overcoming illnesses” and “new relationships,” which have to be added manually—so the ability to edit those make sense. But being able to fling correspondance through past and future? What sort of science fiction Timeline is this?
