Archive for April, 2009

No More Hover: Tooltip Triggers When You Click

Posted on April 18th, 2009 by Andrei Oghina  |  1 Comment »

Based on feedback from our users, we have decided to change the way the tooltip containing information for each resource (artist, movie, book) is triggered to appear on TasteKid.com. Until now, the tooltip appeared every time you were hovering any of the information icons (”?”) next to each resource. Now, you have to click on the icons in order for the tooltip to appear. Some users have reported being annoyed by the tooltip appearing just because they were unintentionally hovering the information icons (”?”).

This is a small change, but we felt like announcing it because people that were used to the old way of getting additional information for artists, movies and books from TasteKid might get confused at first.

TasteKid as a Facebook App

Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Andrei Oghina  |  Comments Off

Since just a few days ago, TasteKid is also available on Facebook, as an application. TasteKid has been around on Facebook for some time as a fan page, but now, for all Facebook users out there, you can actually use the music, movies and books recommendation engine directly from you beloved social platform.

Simple and fast, just like the website itself, TasteKid’s Facebook app gives you on-spot recommendations for music, movies and books, based on what you like. It also remembers your search, so next time you use it, you will receive the recommendations directly, without having to type in all your favorite stuff again (you can also do this on the main website by using the “Remember” option).

Launching this Facebook application is part of our efforts to make this recommendation service available as easily as possible to people all over the world, who may be already using and being fond of various social platforms and services and could find using TasteKid in a familiar environment more attractive.

Our previous endeavor in this direction was the recent launch of TasteKid’s Twitter bot, which is gathering more and more followers each day. Thank you! :)