Apologies for the lack of updated content yesterday. The problem has now been resolved and all content is up to date through today.

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Excuse me, but did anyone happen to notice any advertising for this movie “Juno”? I see a LOT of movies - used to work at a movie theatre when I was in college, so got free passes and developed a lifetime high tolerance for bad film. Since I see a lot of movies, I see a lot of trailers, and this one never showed up, not once. I never saw a billboard, a TV spot, or a Juno poster. And yet, here I was in this, the largest theatre of theatres at the local multiplex and it was packed. Since when do you see a movie that’s packed and it isn’t opening weekend? Well thankfully, it’s not never.

Juno’s one of those movies that is just good, damn good. It’s not for everyone - it even broke my regular rule about never seeing a movie that was highly rated by critics - but good. And lots of people seeing it, with no advertising. I guess that strengthens one of my other rules, that the more advertising you see for a movie, the worse it is. Although National Treasure, Book of Secrets kind of defied that one too. Not that it was great - but my god, the number of trailers, posters, TV spots and billboards made Romney’s pitch for Iowa look like a campaign for sheriff in wheretheyheckamiville, Utah.

As we decide how prominent to make the search function in the new version, we have to wonder how much browsing our users are doing, vs typing in the name of a show you want to watch and then scrolling through episodes. How much sorting, how much re-sorting, that sort of thing. Basically, we’re wondering what your typical visit with Graboid Video might be like.

I’ll typically do one of 3 things - do random searches on things I might like, say, movies from the 70’s - search ‘(197′ ; search for a specific title of a favorite movie or tv show; or just scroll through the latest postings, usually in the adult category where the concept of ‘favorite’ has less meaning. I’ve never clicked on the genre dropdowns, only the main categories.

Every once in a while I wish I could sort by language. And I wish there were more titles with green thumbs beside them. That makes the process of selecting one of several posts much much easier.

If we get input from you on your behavior, it will help us refine the interface, now and in future updates.

Just to add to Ryan’s comment about the files being updated now, we promise to be completely upfront with all technical (or other) problems if they develop - as we always have been.

Thanks for using Graboid TV!

We at Graboid have our own reasons for developing the software and service, much of it selfish, because we want to get these videos for ourselves. There are many ways to get tv shows and movies for free, or inexpensively on the net; however, Graboid appears to be more of a special resource for tv episodes than for movies. Perhaps because there are so many more tv shows than there are movies, it’s hard for them to get aggregated in one place.

It would be interesting to know what brought you, and what keeps you, interested in Graboid. I have to believe it’s the tv shows and that the movies are of incidental interest.  What are you watching out there?

Our library of content has just hit 30,000 today, and is growing at a rate of nearly 500 a day.

We initially set out to connect users with the world’s largest network of content, and to make it easily streamable through an intuitive interface that even your girlfriend can use. We’ll let you be the judge of whether or not we’ve succeeded come July (or June if you were lucky enough to get in on our beta test), but that’s approximately four years worth of content that we’re going to make available to your greedy and impatient little eyeballs, so be sure to clear up your evenings and load up on popcorn!

Forget BitTorrent, and forget PeekVid and its myriad of clones. Graboid is something very different, and we’re out to change the entire media landscape.

For the uninitiated, you can search our current content database here.