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Thursday is Thor's Day was My Idea
2008-04-03 17:56:58
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It's crazy busy for us this week here at Marvel.com HQ (Alexa hasn't even had time to do the Weekly Watchers with her usual frequency lately). However we have been able to launch a new feature that you guys have been requesting: the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited Publishing Calendar!
Now you can easily see when your favorite comics are added to the Marvel Digital Comics library. And yes, every Thursday is Thor's Day.
Also, we have a lot of cool features launching over the next month, so keep watching this space. I leave you with an awesome picture of Galactus riding through the halls of Marvel.
-pete
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Facebook, Digg, New Nav, and more
2008-03-10 08:55:18
Hi all. Happy Monday.
As always the Marvel.com suite of neat stuff expands. We have a couple of small items and a one big thing this week:
- New Nav!
It's not a radical redesign of the old one, but it's simpler, more elegant, and (most importantly) faster loading.
- Digg Button on news stories.
Now you digg Marvel.com stories without leaving the page. Five years ago that sentence wouldn't have made any sense.
- Digital Comics on Facebook!
If you somehow missed the giant box on the front page, you can now view Marvel Digital Comics while on popular social networking site Facebook.com (just go here) . Its our first Facebook app, and we think it turned out well.
If you're a Digital Comics Unlimited subscriber, you can actually link your Facebook and Marvel.com memberships and view books on either platform. Plus you can show off your favorite comics and creators to your friends and enemies by placing them on your profile with the click of a button. And hey, there's free books there too.
new marvel.com features (or getting back on the horse)
2008-02-27 14:21:36
Hi all. Long time no blog.
I'm going to try to redirect this blog a little bit and instead of writing long diatribes that no one reads, use it to keep you updated about cool stuff going on around the site. We are constantly changing and adding new stuff to Marvel.com, marvelkids.marvel.com and our other sites and we don't always wave our arms in the air and yell about them when they go live.
Anyway, new stuff:
1) New galleries on our movie pages:
(click on the big image that says "Launch the Gallery")
2) Some tweaks to the comics hubs:
We're presenting the books for each family in a more streamlined way, and also you can now see blog entries and podcasts for a given comic hub in one convenient location. (And if you haven't seen them check out the new Secret Invasion and Soleil hubs.)
Keep watching this space for more stuff.
-pete
Animated Series Coming to Cartoon Network
2007-05-25 15:03:13
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google desktop gadget
2007-05-08 09:58:58
After a long and arduous development process, we've released our first gadget for Google Desktop! Now you can see this week's comic book releases right in Google sidebar.
Check it out here!
How not to spell
2007-05-08 09:58:44
Ack, it's been a long time since I blogged. Anyway, every week or so we review the top searches on our site, and I thought I'd share with you, my loyal cult following of two or three readers (depending whether my mom is reading this week or not), some of the fun things that we've found.
Spider-Man not SpidermanPoor Spider-Man. When it comes to finding our most popular character on the web, Peter Parker has it rough on a number of fronts. First, everyone misspells Spider-Man. It's tough...most people don't immediately think "Capital-S Spider Dash Capital M Man" when they hear Spider-Man, they think "spiderman", which is how most people type the name when they want to search for it. Aside from obvious typos like "Spinderman" or "Spidderman" (which sounds like a dentist I used to go to) and a few deliberate cutesy misspellings (was Spyderman ever a real character here?), Spiderman is the most common misspelling we get...and is always in the top 5 searches for our site.
But even if you spell Spider-Man correctly he's hard to find. I mean, I don't think that Stan Lee had sophisticated search engine optimization techniques in mind when he was busy inventing the everyman super-hero, he couldn't have spelled it in a worse way when it comes to the internet. First, a lot of search engines interpret Spider-Man as "find articles with the word 'spider' but not the word 'man'." And then even a lot of search engines think you actually mean (wait for it) Spiderman. Even the computers are confused.
Anyway, it's Spider-Man, not Spiderman.
DashesWhile we're on the subject, dashes are tricky. The rough rule seems to be that characters with animal names get them in the form of Animalname-Man: Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Giant-Man (giant being an animal for our purposes) etc. This holds true for the various Animal-Woman characters as well: Spider-Girl, Spider-Woman. Gorilla Man seems to be the exception that proves the rule. Other "man" names don't get dashes: Iron Man, Machine Man, Wonder Man. So animals get dashes, minerals don't. Not sure about plants, but I will check with Tom.
Why are you here again?Every week a certain number of searches in our top 20 are for characters that belong to other companies. And we're happy to have the traffic.
The king of the misspellingsAfter Spidey, the clear winner for the most misspelled character is Juggernaut. It's a tough word (I just had to look it up to make sure I got it right), and I'm not blaming anyone. But still. Here's a few of my favorites:
- jugernote
- juggernauth
- juggernatr
- juggrunat
- juggernautt
- juggrunat
- and finally Jaggernuat, which sounds like something I had too much of once at a party in college
Anyway, until next time, happy searching. And remember. Spider-Man. Not Spiderman.
wallpaper tweaks!
2007-03-22 08:55:14
The Marvel.com wallpaper section has been one of our most popular features on the site since we added it in August, 2004, but that doesn't mean we just rest on our laurels when it comes to how it works. We've just launched a few features that we hope will enhance your wallpaper browsing and downloading experience.
First, we made it a lot faster. Not the flashiest tweak ever, but, you know, it's faster.
Second, we've indexed each wallpaper by character. So now if you're looking for a wallpaper with say Daredevil, in it, you don't have to futz around looking through a million different book titles.
Finally, and the closest to my heart, we've added another way of looking at our popular wallpapers. In addition to the standard cumulative total tally of downloads, we're now tallying a decaying average of the most popular wallpapers over time. So the longer it's been since a wallpaper was posted, the more votes it'll have to have to stay near the top. This will give more recently posted wallpapers a chance to make the all-time most popular list. Take that House of M poster!
networking the marvel way
2007-02-21 08:58:15
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