Alpha Status Report #2 (week Jan 16 to Jan 22 2010)

[Fabricio Zuardi]

Here is what happened this week in Public Videos Alpha:

• We continued to increase the free clips pool, this week alone it has been added 669 new clips, currently there are  2062 clips in total!!
• As for the code development, I've reviewed and improved the website markup to make it more friendly to users of text-based web browsers with no javascript support, and web crawlers.
• Speaking of webcrawlers, the website now has a robots.txt allowing all search bots and a sitemap index (with basic video metadata too)
• thanks to the changes above, Public Videos Alpha is now indexed by Google Video search, check it out!
• Other than that, I've been pretty busy preparing some stuff to present the website on a  huge brazilian Lan Party next week in São Paulo. Mauricio made some awesome stickers designs and I had to hurry to find a place to print the stickers and test different options.

As a result we now have our first Public Videos schwags :)

Next week I will try to keep committing updates to the website from São Paulo, and some good surprises are expected from this gig. I'll try to keep everyone updated.

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Fabricio