http://www.hackinglovefilm.com Looking inside LOVEFiLM DVD and games rentals Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:41:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LOVEFiLM .com have just announced are taking over the user base of all of Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de DVD rental service. A press release from LOVEFiLM has just announced that LOVEFiLM have acquired Amazon's DVD rental business and customer base. In the deal Amazon has now become the largest shareholder of LOVEFiLM ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2008/02/lovefilm-takes-over-amazons-dvd-rental-business/ Petimi from Pi ImageDesign is a new customer to LOVEFiLM and has made a funky video to show how easy to use the service is. Share This http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2008/02/how-lovefilm-works-a-video-review/ I received an email from Jason Norris [Affiliate Manager of LOVEFiLM] promoting LOVEFiLM's latest competition. I was delighted to see that rather than the normal 'answer a daft question' style of competition LOVEFiLM has created a great little flash game to play called Slogger which is in the style of ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2008/02/slogger-competition-win-a-sony-bravia-tv/ This valentines day LOVEFiLM has joined up with the (RED), a semi-charity that helps Aids victims in Africa by donating a percentage of the profits from a consumer purchase. You might remember them from the (RED) Apple iPod and Bono being one of the product (RED) founders. This Valentines day (RED) ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2008/02/red-and-lovefilm-join-up-for-valentines-gifts/ Back in January i received an email from a member of LOVEFiLM called Steven Green, as an owner of a Nintendo DS he had noticed that LOVEFiLM are not supporting the console for any rentals. Hi, I was wondering if you had any idea why Lovefilm isn’t renting out Nintendo DS ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2008/02/no-nintendo-ds-titles-to-rent/ Just a quick post to let you all know that i am still around and this site hasn't died. Time has passed me by, Christmas came and went with the new year following closely, work has started a new year so my free time is less with more work, more ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2008/02/time-is-precious/ e-consultancy interviewed William Reeve, Chief Operating Officer for LOVEFiLM. There are some nice topics discussed about the business of DVD rentals, movie downloads and an internal Hackathon. Here are some snippets from the interview, ending with some questions from myself. William on the LOVEFiLM Hackathon We see you recently held a Hackathon to generate ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2007/11/william-reeve-interview-e-consultancycom/ The guys at LOVEFiLM have finally caught up with the rest of the web and updated their homepage and done a little clean up of the navigation. For those who can't remember, or haven't see it before the homepage was in two variants, one for when you are not signed in ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2007/11/lovefilm-new-website-design-first-thoughts/ Sorry for the lack of posts, it seems i have blinked and so much has gone on in the world of LOVEFiLM. Not only has LOVEFiLM gone over a small re-vamp with the design of the site, but i have received a few emails from not only readers of my blog ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2007/11/first-batch-of-emails/ I posted before that LOVEFiLM had a new advert coming with Ray Winstone doing the voice over, now it is confirmed. With the launch of their new advertisement LOVEFiLM have also launched a competition to win 6 months of free DVD (and possibly video games) rentals, all you have to ... http://www.hackinglovefilm.com/2007/11/new-lovefilm-tv-advert-competition/