Thursday, July 19, 2007

Get your Alamo showtimes to go


The concept for the Alamo was originally to combine the dinner and a movie date into one all-inclusive experience, and we still like to think that we're the best place for that in the country. But we realize that sometimes you'll be out at dinner somewhere else with a group of friends and someone will say, "Hey, wanna go see a movie after this?" And that idea sounds great to you, but what movie? What theater? And when does it start?

The "what theater?" question is obviously easy to answer. The "what movie?" is often tied into when it starts, though, isn't it? And so then you can go to the front of the restaurant and see if there are still any Chronicle's left, but sometimes that just isn't that convenient. You could use your new iPhone to go straight to our main website, but the load times of the actual Internet on those things is horrible. And on a regular Palm? Blech. So now you can visit www.originalalamo.com/m on your mobile device and get quick and easy access to our showtimes for all of our theaters with no frills that can cost valuable downloading time. Need more info on a particular title? You can still click through and get to a simple text description. www.originalalamo.com/mobile. Program it into your device now.

And for when you're actually in front of your computer, we've also added a whole range of RSS feeds. Subscribe to Lamar updates, to the Village feed, to the Rolling Roadshow, or a combination of all three!

6 comments:

a-rock said...

why not make it "originalalamo.com/m" instead of "/mobile"?

Typing on a cell phone sucks. Every little bit helps. Using "m" instead of "mobile" is the convention for a lot of other sites anyways. So people are already used to it.

Kenneth said...

Thank you thank you thank you! I've been using a makeshift rss feed scraped from austin360, but this is so much better. Now, how about an iCal feed? for google calendar or iCal?

Scott said...

Awesome. Couple of thoughts:
- Give the page a Title,that will make it easier to bookmark
- for iphone users it would be cool if the page was sized to fit the screen
- put more space between the day links, they are hard to click on the iPhone

Kevin said...
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Kevin said...

Thanks so much! I've wanted that feature for a while now.

Matt said...

Cool! I have been using the movie feature of http://mobile.live.com. It requires a download but I get all my Alamo movie times based on my current location.