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	<title>Comments on: Rotation of Featured Add-Ons on AMO</title>
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		<title>By: Basil&#8217;s Bodacious Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; AMO Featured List rotation</title>
		<link>http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/05/30/rotation-of-featured-add-ons-on-amo/comment-page-1/#comment-997</link>
		<dc:creator>Basil&#8217;s Bodacious Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; AMO Featured List rotation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] of July, we have rotated the featured add-ons on the site. I&#8217;ve previously described the process we use on AMO for rotating the featured add-ons. Those add-ons with better overall performance stay on the list, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] of July, we have rotated the featured add-ons on the site. I&#8217;ve previously described the process we use on AMO for rotating the featured add-ons. Those add-ons with better overall performance stay on the list, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Basil&#8217;s Bodacious Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Featured Add-ons Rotation for July 2008</title>
		<link>http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/05/30/rotation-of-featured-add-ons-on-amo/comment-page-1/#comment-900</link>
		<dc:creator>Basil&#8217;s Bodacious Blog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Featured Add-ons Rotation for July 2008</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] previously described the process we use on AMO for rotating the featured add-ons. As we start a new month, we&#8217;ve rotated many of the add-on [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jonathan</title>
		<link>http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/05/30/rotation-of-featured-add-ons-on-amo/comment-page-1/#comment-858</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can tell you our experience.  For ThumbStrips www.thumbstrips.com it increased our downloads dramatically (7K to 70K per month).  This allowed us to get some great feedback on releasing a FF3 compatible version.  

The difficult part of spending time developing an add-on that is open to the public is justifying the expense.  The Featured Add-Ons list is one of those opportunities to prove out if further development is worth the investment in time.  Continue the great work you have going on here and allowing us to get our products to as wide an audience as possible!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can tell you our experience.  For ThumbStrips <a href="http://www.thumbstrips.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thumbstrips.com</a> it increased our downloads dramatically (7K to 70K per month).  This allowed us to get some great feedback on releasing a FF3 compatible version.  </p>
<p>The difficult part of spending time developing an add-on that is open to the public is justifying the expense.  The Featured Add-Ons list is one of those opportunities to prove out if further development is worth the investment in time.  Continue the great work you have going on here and allowing us to get our products to as wide an audience as possible!</p>
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		<title>By: Staś Małolepszy</title>
		<link>http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/05/30/rotation-of-featured-add-ons-on-amo/comment-page-1/#comment-797</link>
		<dc:creator>Staś Małolepszy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent post!

I wonder if it would make sense to offer slightly different experince to users depending on how they arrive on an add-on&#039;s page. If they searched for it ny name, it means that they know it and are mainly interested in downloading it, thus exposing the download button (the way we have it now) makes sense.

However for people who are new to the add-ons worlds or who learned about the add-on thanks to the Featured list, the Download action is secondary—they first want to read about the functionalities and, even more importantly, see a screenshot. Thus, making the screenshot bigger might be beneficial for this scenario.

In general, I&#039;m not sure about the idea of having two layouts and two different experience scenarios, so let me call this comment brainstorming :)

It might be also interesting to see if having an addon on the featured list improves the visibilty of the category the addon is in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent post!</p>
<p>I wonder if it would make sense to offer slightly different experince to users depending on how they arrive on an add-on&#8217;s page. If they searched for it ny name, it means that they know it and are mainly interested in downloading it, thus exposing the download button (the way we have it now) makes sense.</p>
<p>However for people who are new to the add-ons worlds or who learned about the add-on thanks to the Featured list, the Download action is secondary—they first want to read about the functionalities and, even more importantly, see a screenshot. Thus, making the screenshot bigger might be beneficial for this scenario.</p>
<p>In general, I&#8217;m not sure about the idea of having two layouts and two different experience scenarios, so let me call this comment brainstorming <img src='http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>It might be also interesting to see if having an addon on the featured list improves the visibilty of the category the addon is in.</p>
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