More Videos, Faster Search, Easier Contribution

Posted June 2nd, 2009

We just released a few features to streamline some of the most common tasks on the site: viewing videos, searching, and contributing.

In the multimedia arena, SwingVine now automatically loads YouTube videos for music, movies, and TV shows without requiring contributors to manually embed these videos. Now you’ll never be more than a click away from viewing clips of your favorite new content.

For search, we now support inline results to get you to the page you want even faster.

And for contributors, we’ve greatly reduced the amount of work needed to create compelling new pages. Whether it’s from the new inline search box or from a details page, contributors can use our new wizard dialogs to walk through the various steps of creating a content-packed pages with dramatically fewer clicks (it used to take up to 5 clicks to add an artist to an album; now it’s just one extra click to do this for a new album). These wizards also incorporate Google image and video search results automatically so you can add lots of multimedia to new pages in one seamless step.