Well, Merecal’s first month is in the books. As you know, we launched on July 23rd. About a week later, we gave an update on how things were going. I figured it would be a good idea to post another update after our first month to talk a bit about what we’ve been up to.
First off, we’d be remiss not to mention that we picked a great time to launch. Since we officially opened our doors on July 23rd, we’ve seen plenty of great new books, movies, music and video games come and go on the home page. If you know how the home page works, that means you know that there have been a lot of great releases showing up each week. To name only a couple, Braveheart, which just so happens to be my favorite movie ever, showed up as an upcoming Blu-ray release to come out on September 1st. Furthermore, if you were like Matt and had Gran Turismo added as a search result favorite, you found out immediately that Gran Turismo 5 was announced to be released on December 29, 2009.
Probably our biggest claim to fame in our first month, though, was finding out that Whitney Port, seen at right, is such a staunch supporter of Merecal. Okay, maybe not quite, but the former star of The Hills and current star of her own show The City, took kindly to our promoting her Season One DVD on Twitter and was nice enough to retweet. That brought quite a few more followers our way who hopefully have benefitted from our subsequent tweets (and our website) since then.
All the while, Matt and I have been putting a lot of thought into the next steps we want to take with the site. We don’t want to unleash all the details right away, but we can say that we’ve been thinking about how to expand the social aspect of the site. We want to make sure you are able to benefit from your favorites at Merecal on other sites, and vice versa. We also want to make sure you have the opportunity to share information about new releases with your friends and even leave feedback on the many new releases that come through the site on a daily basis.
In other words, we’re still hard at work trying to make Merecal better and more useful. Stay tuned, and thanks for joining us on this journey!
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