For those who haven’t entered into the IHM beta testing for the new collection, we’ve put together a bunch of pictures highlighting some of the newer features and design ideas we’ve created for it.  It’s getting closer and closer to completion everyday and so far we’ve received lots of good feedback about it to make sure it’s the best it can be for you all.

A quick highlight of some of the big features of the new collection:

• It’s all done using Ajax.  This means that your entire collection downloads temporarily to your browser when you visit the collection.  Once downloaded you’ll never have to wait for a page to load as each update or change you make happens behind the scenes.
• Lists.  We’re going to introduce a new feature that allows users to create lists of films (or tv shows) in whatever ways they’d like.  This will allow you to share those “best things to watch at 2am” or “movies for first dates” ideas you’ve always wanted to.
• Mass rating :).  Tired of rating films one at a time?  You’ll be able to select as many titles as you want and rate them all at once.
• Mass management.  Tags, deletion, lists, etc. will all be able to be done in a mass mode so that you don’t have to do it on an individual basis.
• New rating tips.  Ever confused on the difference between a 7 and an 8 when it comes to rating?  We’ve setup a guideline to help you know that while a 7 is good, an 8 is great.

Anyway, I don’t want to give away too much from it.  We’ve got some other things up our sleeve and we hope you will all enjoy it.

Those wanting to check out the screenshots of the new collection can visit my flickr page.

Pardon us, but we’re currently experiencing some technical difficulties. We’ll have everything back to order in a few moments. We apologize for any inconvenience in causing you to wait.

Thanks,

- IHM Staff

The bug for those interested:

Earlier today we pushed out an update that put our recently added films onto IHM’s twitter account as soon as the films were added. For those of you who have twitter you can follow us. Each film added onto the site will now post as a twitter update containing the original title, the year and a link back to IHM.

Earlier today, we put up browse page that listed all of the 2008 Academy Awards winners and nominees. We’ve also gone through and updated all the trailers so that you’ll be able to watch the trailers for all the nominees on the page.

Check it out.