Archive for October, 2008
As we continue building the world’s largest consumer video catalog, you might have noticed that we’ve expanding out of just product reviews. We are now at a place where people who come to Expo can voice their opinion about much more. Don’t get me wrong, you can still rant and rave about the products you buy. And on top of that, members can answer questions other shoppers have about the products you own with our Ask An Owner platform.
We’ve started to build out mini communities together around topics that are important to all of (Eco Living) as well as ones supported by really cool brands (Herbal Essences, Gain, LG)that are interested in what YOU have to say!
As we work to better serve the community, shoppers and brands that we’re introducing a whole new contribute area and rewards program to be sure our content is focused on what best benefits all of us. We believe our new rewards program does just that. Here are quick highlights of what you’ll find. Click on the title for more details:
Assignments: Share your thoughts on products, brands, and shopping – We’re giving away an LG flat screen this month!
Most Wanted: Review in-demand products for $20 each - Close to 3,000 products to choose from
Tryology: Get free products to try and review
Expo Elite: Take advantage of exclusive benefits
Refer-A-Friend: Now pays $10 – plus a chance to win $100
Oh yeah, of course we still believe getting reviews on a wide variety of products is still important to us, and we’ll gladly accept anything you want to say about the stuff you buy at a new rate of $5 per video.
Thanks,
The Expo Team
October 31st, 2008
Happy Halloween from Expo!! With Halloween comes candy, costumes, the New York City Halloween parade and lots of scary movies.
Check out:
Halloween Arrives at Expo:
We also asked members of the ExpoTV staff what some of their all time favorite scary movies are:
Sarah:
Suspiria: The first 20 minutes are terrifying but also disgustingly pretty at the
same time.
The Descent: If you are claustrophobic I’d highly recommend staying away from this one.
Jaws: I first saw this movie when I was nine. The severed leg floating in the water towards the beginning basically ruined swimming in the ocean for me…forever.
Daphne:
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. It’s apparently a TV movie, but I didn’t know the difference. I was 8 when I saw it and I had to sleep with the lights on until I was 11 (they don’t like the light, you know, so they won’t come out if you keep the lights on…). I still have nightmares of little voices whispering “Sa-llleeee. Saaaa-llleeee.”
Eugene:
Terminator. I saw it when I was 11 and it freaked me out.
Margaret:
The movies that scared me the most were never about monsters or some product of a freak experiment, it was about how realistic or possible the subject of the movie was. So with that, the movie that scared me most when I was young was ‘The Birds’. My mom actually read me the short story on which it was based, long before I saw the movie and it really freaked me out. Some unseen force of nature making animals do strange thing is not so uncommon, even some human behavior is attributed to the positioning of the moon and we’ve all seen crazy pigeons and seagulls out on the streets…they are just one step from an organized attack!
Brian:
My favorite scary movie of all time is Halloween (the original). I believe Michael Myers is one of the greatest and scariest characters ever created. He is just a regular guy wearing a white mask and trying to terrorize his own family - what’s freakier than that? Also, the Halloween music by John Carpenter does not get any creepier. I usually don’t get scared while watching movies - but every time I watch Halloween, I still occasionally need to hide my head behind the pillow.
John:
The Thriller Music video. I always had to leave the room when the werewolf came in.
Jess:
Favorite Scary movie: Seven And favorite Halloween Movie: Karate Kid. Come on, the costumes are priceless. Childhood movie that I was scared of but shouldn’t have been: Alice and Wonderland scared me as a kid, not sure why.
Yevgeny:
Scream, Identity, Vertigo, and Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Seriously.
Oh, and Aliens, when the little head comes out of the Alien’s mouth.
Sascha
Audition – And to think, before I saw this movie, I thought piano wire was used to make music.
The Exorcist – Saw this when I was in middle school, and at some point I “accidentally” spilled a glass of water on the couch so I had an excuse to leave the room to get paper towels.
Hitchcock – Psycho, Rear Window, etc. “”There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
Psycho was the first film in history to show a toilet being flushed. Fact.
Jack Frost. A serial killer is being transported to high-security prison and runs into a truck carrying toxic chemicals, causing him to mutate into a killer snowman. It’s that kind of movie. (NOT the Michael Keaton family movie, although the two snowmen look eerily similar)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders. Starring Ernest Borgnine.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit – When the toon gets dumped in the vat of acid. And when Christopher Lloyd gets run over by the steamroller and then gets up again, I ran out of the theater screaming and went to watch the second half of the Carebears movie.
Froso
IT - I had to keep an eye on the drain in the shower for my whole 6th grade year after watching that.
Jorge:
A movie I’ve never been able to see is “The Exorcist”.
The first time I saw the first 15 minutes of it I was 11 years old and did so by secretly sneaking into my parent’s bedroom in the middle of the day, because they didn’t want me to see it.
I stopped the movie and had really scary nightmares for at least a week.
To this day, I can’t see it.
Bill:
I’ll go with Happy Birthday to Me, which was a campy 70s slasher movie.
We had just gotten cable (1st family on the street!) and my parents never bothered with the parental key (it was a real key that went into the box and turned off all of the pay channels) and so I’d watch anything I could rated R when they were out. Combine being home basically alone with being just a little too young to know what was coming and I got what I deserved.
Kip
The scariest movie I ever saw was a documentary called Prisoners of the Brain, about mental illness. Like non fiction. It totally messed me up for like a week. I thought I had all kinds of tumors and lesions.
I also remember when I was a kid the Blob (1988 version) scared the hell out of me. That had me going for a while too. I was afraid to take showers or go near a sink or drain of any kind. …it was bad. I was terrified. I would get in the shower and just know that the blob was going to come out of the drain hole and dissolve my skin and bones.
-Froso
October 31st, 2008
Congratulations to creative Expo member ldkronos — the fourth weekly winner of our Homemade Halloween Costume Contest.
ldkronos is the fourth contest entrant to win a $50 iTunes gift card for his video showing his unique handmade costume based on the YouTube series “Charlie the Unicorn“.
To see the first three winning entries of our costume contest, click here. There’s still time to enter your own homemade costume stories in our contest - deadline is November 2!
October 28th, 2008
CBS 13 in Sacramento runs a money-saving segment called Save With Dave on their 10:00pm news. Recently, they chose to feature Expo in a story on making back some of the money you spend on products! They loved the idea of making money off of telling others what you think of products you’ve already bought. Click here to watch the video segment.
Thanks to CBS 13 & Dave Bender for helping spread the word about Expo how you can earn money making video reviews!
Want to see some great product reviews? Here are just a couple for your viewing pleasure:
LG Dare
Britax Marathon Convertible Car Seat
Find video reviews by real consumers on tons of products by clicking here.
October 27th, 2008
Forget ghosts and goblins, the scariest thing going on this Halloween week is the economy. Everywhere you turn, there is a reminder that we are currently facing a possible world wide recession. It affects everything from your grocery shopping to your social life.
Over at Expo we wanted to know how the economy was impacting your shopping habits? Members of the Expo community gave some great suggestions on how to cut costs and how they have changed their spending habits.
Expo member, Mayelimeyeli describes how her shopping habits have changed due to the recession by now including coupon clipping and bargain hunting:
Here are some great ideas to help cut costs on grocery shopping:
1. Buy produce in season. Check the food section in your newspaper to find the best buys for the week, based on fresh produce in season.
2. Use sales and coupons. Planning meals around what’s on sale can lower your grocery bills.
3. Brown-bag it. Making lunch and taking it with you is a great money-saver and an excellent use of leftovers for meals at work, school, or wherever your destination.
4. Think frozen, canned, or dried. Less Expensive and equally nutritious.
5. Save on protein foods. When possible, substitute inexpensive, vegetarian sources such as beans, eggs, tofu, and legumes for more expensive meat, fish, or poultry.
6. Before you toss perishable food into your grocery cart, think about exactly how you’ll use it.
7. Go generic. Consider buying store brands instead of pricier national brands.
8. Buy prepackaged only if you need it. Unless you have a coupon or the item is on sale, buying prepackaged, sliced, or washed products comes with a higher price tag.
9. Plant a garden. For benefits that go beyond cost savings, plant your own produce.
10.Don’t forget that Black Friday should have many great deals this year with the current state of retail sales.
Do you have any other ideas to share?
- Froso
October 27th, 2008
We have some good and some not-so-good news to announce regarding this month’s promotion. We received an overwhelming number of great videos and will need to make another change to payments for videos uploaded during the remainder of the month.
THE NOT-SO-GOOD NEWS
All product reviews uploaded after 11:59pm EST tonight, October 23, 2008 will earn $3.
The three categories that were closed last week (Books, Food & Beverage, and Movies & TV Shows) will remain closed for the remainder of this month.
THE GOOD NEWS
There are hundreds (literally hundreds!) of products that we are looking for reviews on - and we are willing to pay $20 for them. You can find everything from a stroller to a vacuum to a digital camera on this list. Plus, any 2008 or 2009 vehicle will earn you $20. To see all eligible products, click here.
Sorry for the short notice. There are still tons of ways to contribute and be rewarded at Expo - with more new things coming soon!
October 23rd, 2008
With the launch of Expo’s newly redesigned home page, you may be wondering how to access our Member Forums. A link to the Member Forums can be found in the footer at the bottom of most pages on our site. Here’s where you can find the link:
The Member Forums are separate from the new Consumer Message Boards, where you can talk to other shoppers about all kinds of products!
October 23rd, 2008
It is with great pleasure I am writing to announce our new homepage design.
Our simple navigation is designed to make finding videos on the latest and most popular products much easier.The new home page celebrates the community and showcases some amazing videos of featured members.Discovering new products and connecting with other consumers just got easier.
- Jess
October 22nd, 2008
In another installment of Random Expo Inquiries we have an unusual comment that was sent to us:
Random Expo Inquiry #5: YOUR MAGAGINE NAME IS PC WORLD,
NOT MOBILE WORLD. I THINK 50% OR 90% IS ABOUT MOBILE IN YOUR MAGAGINE.
I’ll leave it up to personal interpretation.
- Froso
October 21st, 2008
Congratulations to the first three weekly winners of our Homemade Halloween Costume Contest!
Week 1: Adanpry - Kimono costume
Week 2: PumpkinPie - Raggedy Ann costume
Week 3: CRReview - iPod Mini costume
Each of these members will receive a $50 iTunes gift card for their creative costume video or text response.
Got some great homemade costume stories? Share with the Expo community and you too could win a $50 iTunes gift card - two more lucky members will win!
October 21st, 2008
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