Lately the talk around the IHM office (which is in reality not an office but just an aim conversation window), the talk has been where to move next or what to do now. We’ve got tons and tons of ideas in our heads that we’d like to see come to fruition, but we really don’t know if those will be what would make you guys happy. We could dole out feature after feature, but without any sort of feedback or idea of what you all would be interested in, we’d make no real progress on the site.

So, if you couldn’t guess from my intro in this post, that’s what this post and a new IHM poll are going to do. By the time this post is up, the poll should be on all of your dashboards.

Of the many ideas we have in our heads, we narrowed it down to the top things we wanted to create or redo about the site and put them into general categories. These categories are what you’ll be voting on via the poll or commenting and giving suggestions on through the blog. Hopefully through both mediums we can get a better feel for how to serve you best next. Here are the categories we’re working with now:

Current features fixed and upgraded
- We know some of our features are lacking or could be redone to make them more efficient to you all. We’ve heard many suggestions for changes to be implemented into the collection pages or on the quick search. We’ve heard complaints of how things aren’t working well or don’t work like you would want them to in your head. This category, if chosen would cover us revisiting those complaints and making our changes to those for more satisfication.

New features for more data
- We know we don’t have as much data on every title as we could. Let alone, all the titles we could or should have. This category, if chosen would cover the creation of features that would allow the users as a whole to edit the information in our databases. We don’t have your language? No trailer for the movie you want to see? Then add it.

New social features
- We know part of what we are is a social network based around the films and tv shows themselves. Features like groups and lists that would allow you to form as mini communities around things you like or enjoy have been mentioned as something we’d like to create. Choosing this category would steer us more in creating features that fit this bill better with an aim at socializing the site more.

More languages offered
- We know all of our site is in English and yet we have a pretty large international user base. This category would have us focus more on implementing ways to make the site less English based and allow it to be open to more languages as the user bases for each of those grow.

So now, you have four ideas of four different directions we’d like to approach. We’ve given basic overviews of each and have tons of ideas for each floating in our heads. All we need are you guys to point us in the direction that you’d like the most.

If you’ve got questions, comments or concerns about the ideas we’ve presented. Please shoot us some feedback either via the blog, our emails or even IHM messages/comments. We’ve got our ears wide open with anticipation to see what you all choose.

This afternoon, we’ve released a new feature called profile comments. Those of you used to other social networks, should be pretty familiar with this feature. Basically, it allows you to leave a message for someone on their profile page. You’re basically allowed to leave whatever message you like, but remember it’s up to the user how their profile privacy works.

We’ve also released a few settings additions for this feature. Those who would not like to use this feature or to have anyone commenting on their page can completely turn it off. Those who want only their friends to be able to can choose that option as well. And for those of you who don’t want all those pesky emails coming your way any time you get an email, you’ve got that option also.

If someone writes on your page, we’ve given a few features to you (as the profile owner). If don’t like what they said, you can delete it. If you want to write something back to that user, a reply link will be next to their name allowing you to quickly get back to them. And by choosing the “history” link, you’ll be able to see all posts between yourself and that user. Privacy settings again apply to all of these features.

If anyone finds anything happening with these features over the next couple of days, please let me know.