Tag Team Interactive has developed a new social review site, called Blippr. Blippr is all about simplifying, shortening, and sharpening the review process so that you can get recommendations from your friends faster, and share your own opinions with friends, too. Reviews have never been shorter, more entertaining, or easier than this.
So, I try Blippr. Nothing makes me happier than force my opinion not only on the general public but everyone in my email’s contact list. Blippr feeds into the individual review rather than the technical
Blippr is nearing the end of beta testing and will be opening up to the public shortly.
Problems:
- Only Blippr members can view our blips. (view my blips here)
- I checked all my settings and there is no way (at this time) to allow general public viewing of blips.
- There is RSS, but most people do not know how to use RSS.
- I can do this in twitter (view my tweets here)
- I checked all my settings and there is no way (at this time) to allow general public viewing of blips.
- Titles have to be exact when looking for blips
- This will cause the system to create many duplicates.
- I did a search for Wii Sports, Blippr did not come up with a blip. Therefore; I started my own. Finding out there already was a blip for Wii Sports. Now there are two. This needs to be fixed before it goes public. I might mean 300 blips for Halo 3.
- I did a search for Wii Sports, Blippr did not come up with a blip. Therefore; I started my own. Finding out there already was a blip for Wii Sports. Now there are two. This needs to be fixed before it goes public. I might mean 300 blips for Halo 3.
- This will cause the system to create many duplicates.
- It is not intuitive.
- Where is number 1? Did I miss something?
- Where is number 1? Did I miss something?
- There could be more categories
- Travel – I would love to hear blips about places to visit. I am in a quest for the best pie! Where is the best pie?
- Food – I know it is all about pie. I would love opinions about certain items.
- Magazines
- Blogs
- Software – Not just about games.
- Hardware
- Cell Phones and Applications
- Television Programming
- Board Games
- DVD
- Under video games there is too much hardware, why not just leave it to the games.
- It might start to look like a store rather than a video game review. When I went to see “games you’ll love” I saw more hardware, controllers than I actually did video games. If this is not controlled, someone will be looking for a book to read, but can’t get past all those homemade bookmarks with cute quotes from Mark Twain.
There is nothing more ambitious than creating a twitter for reviews. It is a little disappointing to have duplicates, public views crimped and not quite intuitive. It is a start. Blippr is a great concept so here is what I like about Blippr:
- Only 160 Character
- It gets down to basics, no more dialogs about your six cats and how they like the movie.
- YouTube connection
- I love a good vid, don’t you?
- Buy it option
- Pictures
- It is always nice to see a photo with an item
- But you can’t put an image until you have blipped enough. Basically, you can’t be a Blippr virgin.
- It is always nice to see a photo with an item
- Recommendations
- I wish it was more intuitive, like Netflix’s recommendations.
So, if you have a book (with or without pictures), played a game (video games only), watched a film (with or without subtitles) or has listened to music…blip away. It will catch on.
…As is 2.5 out of 5 Monitors!
….After Blippr tweaks the programming
3 out of 5 Monitors
…After works with SocialThing!
…After it adds more categories
So, go enjoy, sign up for Blippr before a good username is taken and you have to be either catlady_32 or john_little_boy75!
Hi Rhea –
Thanks for the feedback! We’re hard at work on these issues. Regarding data only being available to blippr users, that’s
going to change once we move out of closed beta – right now, we have the whole thing locked down to just registered users for
a number of reasons, the primary of which being we want to listen to our users and improve upon before opening to everyone. But once we move into open beta, we’ll be opening it up to the general public so that anyone can use this information.
We’re going to be having some pretty significant upgrades to our search backend in our next push, as well. It should enable
things like phoenetic and partial searches, and should heavily reduce duplicate title entries. This will also help with
proper categorization of things like console hardware – we we’re looking at producing much more precise categorization and
filtering (after all, why are XBox games useful to you if you only have a Wii?), which will help filter out hardware when you
aren’t interested in it.
In addition, we’re working on producing controls for our users that will allow people to peer review and edit the content, to
reduce/merge duplicates, improve poor or missing data, and better organize all of blippr’s data. We’re pretty sorely aware
that there have been duplication issues and problems with data being less complete than we’d like, but it’s very definitely
high on our list of things to fix.
Regaring the “new blip” screens, we were actually talking about those today. We’re pretty sure we can make those a lot more
intuitive and less irritating to use. We are really passionate about things being as intuitive as possible, so this feedback really does help us know where to improve… thank you!
Regarding categories, we’re pretty positive that this concept has legs in other areas as well, but we’ve chosen to focus
specifically on media for our first go-round to help us keep from getting too bogged down by going in a ton of different
directions, and we want to provide a media-centric focus to begin with so as to keep the site related across the board.
The recommendations will very certainly get better both as the site gains users, and as you interact with the site. When you
first start using the site, you’re going to see “generally interesting” things, since blippr doesn’t know a whole lot about
you. However, as you use the site and connect with people you trust, blippr will be able to provide really focused, useful
recommendations to you. We’ve seen that among users who have plugged into the site, the recommendations they’re receiving
are really valuable to them. Of course, there are always improvements to be made, and we’ll keep looking for ways to make it
better.
Thanks for the feedback, and we look forward to producing something that you’ll hopefully really love! If you have any further feedback, please feel free to email us directly. We so appreciate it. Thanks again!