October 2009
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Motionbox Announces Acquisition of Viddyou, Inc.... →
(More Details Coming Soon!)
April 2009
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January 2009
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December 2008
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Anyone have a candle?
Update 12:11p - We’ve gotten power restored to all of our servers and just brought the site back up. Everything appears to be working correctly. If you have any persisting issues please contact us.
11:02a - We’re dealing with a power outage that is affecting everyone at our data center and some of our servers are still down. We hope to have this resolved shortly. We’ll post here...
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November 2008
2 posts
Back To Normal!
This morning between 6a-9a PST we had a period of exceptionally heavy load that caused some users to have issues using Viddyou.com. Our team worked to re-distribute the load and we are happy to say that we are now back to normal (10a PST).
October 2008
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September 2008
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WatchCheck out this high def presentation that Gabe Newell gave at Valve’s E3 2008 presentation on the making of Left 4 Dead hosted exclusively on Viddyou.
Small Update Today
We launched a small update this afternoon along with several bug fixes. Among the issues we’ve resolved: a formatting bug on our Manage Videos page (thanks evannoah), Flickr Photosets and Photos should now be displaying properly for everyone (thanks EpochGraphics) and our reply upload form has been fixed as well (thanks Cottonwood). As always, if you have any questions or comments about...
Big Update!
We’ve been hard at work all Summer adding new features, upgrading, and more. There’s a lot happening at Viddyou all the time and a lot of that has to do with all of you, your great feedback and continued support!
Exciting New Things Are Happening Today…
Today we have added new features that continue to make Viddyou the best and most private home for your personal video. Point...
August 2008
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DNS Move Tonight
Tonight we’re moving some of our DNS servers. This update should be transparent and hopefully will not affect any of our members, but because of oddities in the global propagation of DNS data there is a very slight chance you may briefly be unable to visit Viddyou.com. If you continue to have problems visiting Viddyou please feel free to contact our support team.
July 2008
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New Resolution & New Feature
While the bulk of tonight’s update relates to our back-end systems, there are a few changes you will be able to notice. In our last blog entry we mentioned that HD support for 1440x810 would be forthcoming, and we are excited to announce it is now available for our Premium users.
We’ve also added a new feature for all users that will allow you to record or upload a video and embed it...
What's New This Week
Right before the Fourth of July holiday we pushed a new batch of updates. Here’s a quick overview of the two main updates:
1. We’ve overhauled the way still images are generated from your videos. Video thumbnails are now sharper, clearer and smoother.
2. We’ve added additional support for several new High Definition resolutions. This means, that in addition to the common...
June 2008
3 posts
Record Video On Your iPhone
This week saw the announcement of Apple’s new iPhone coming out in July. And while we were excited to see GPS and 3G coming in the new version, we were really bummed they still haven’t built in support for recording video (something that, to us, should be a no-brainer).
If you’re still looking for a way to record video on your iPhone we recommend using the iPhone Video Recorder...
WatchOur friends at Noisepop have partnered with the SEIU (the largest Union in the country that represents hospital and healthcare workers, doormen and other service employees) to produce this short film entitled “No Free Lunch” staring Lewis Black with original music by Radio 4.
For more information about their campaign, you can read their writeup in the NY Times or head to their...
May 2008
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3/4 HD (960x540) Support Now Available
Today we’re announcing 960x540 support for Premium Accounts. If you work in iMovie you’ll find that the “best quality” output is 960x540 - which is 3/4 720p resolution - when Premium members submit files at this resolution we’ll now maintain those dimensions at a bitrate above our Standard Definitition videos. This is a great way for those who want a good looking...
Twitter Notification Fixed
For those of you that use our Twitter Notification feature (it sends a quick tweet whenever you post a new video), you may have noticed that recently those tweets stopped tweeting. Thanks to Viddyou user Eilla, we became aware of the problem and were able to track it down to a change Twitter made to their API that we weren’t aware of. We’ve taken care of fixing it, and we apologize...
Viddyou Wordpress 2.5 Widget
Viddyou user stevenhaddox put together a sweet little widget for Wordpress 2.5 that will automatically pull in your most recent video thumbnails via RSS and create links to your latest videos, so you can have that content right on your Wordpress blog. Steven has kindly allowed everyone to benefit from his work by sharing the code he put together for the widget, so if you’re a Wordpress user...
April 2008
7 posts
Video Embed Change
It seems that a lot of our users were having problems with the update to the embed code that we added about a month ago. Specifically, the HTML that surrounded the embeded video was often being manipulated in unfavorable ways by several popular sites (MySpace, LiveJournal, and a few others). So, we’ve temporarily removed the HTML code surrounding the embed while we work on a more permanent...
Tonight's Update
We’re always working to make Viddyou better and tonight’s update will once again increase the quality of 720p videos to even higher levels than before. We’re also fixing an issue where some of you weren’t able to properly tag your videos when uploading. Look for these changes to go live in the next couple of minutes. Next up: An update to our Facebook Application, providing...
Video Processing Delay
One of our video processing servers had a temporary issue, and as a result some of the videos uploaded to that server were not processed promptly. We’re working to manually process the queue now, and we expect to have operations returned to normal by 3:30pm PT. We greatly apologize for this delay. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me directly: aaronw@viddyou.com
Video Player Update
We’ve pushed an update that includes several optimizations to our video player for decreased load times, and an overall increase in snappiness. Additionally, we found that some slower computers, and computers being run in virtualized environments were sporadically seeing the loading graphic quickly appear and then disappear while their video was playing normally. The latest update to our...
Homepage Algorithm Update
Tonight we’re pushing an update that affects our internal weighting system responsible for selecting the lucky four videos to featured on the homepage every day. The new system is designed to showcase videos from our community that represent what the Viddyou experience is all about. While we generally keep our “secret sauce” somewhat private, I can tell you that our automated...
O'Grady's Powerpage Reviews Viddyou
Huge thanks To Powerpage.org for their great review of us! I’ll excerpt a few quotes here, but you should head over to the site to read the full review: “The design is gorgeous.” “Viddyou eliminates all the junk and focuses on what they know: video.” “Unbelievable. That’s streaming. Right now. The quality here makes it difficult to believe we have survived...
Tonight's Update
Normally we don’t post about the small incremental bug fixes and tweaks that happen on a regular basis, but tonight’s code update is special: we’re increasing the video bitrate of our standard definition videos 20% to 600k. All of the new videos you upload should now have a noticeable increase in quality. Enjoy :]
March 2008
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A Little Bit 'O Love
Today we announced an exciting new release and as a result of it we’ve some really nice coverage. Big thanks to all those that have written about us, helping to spread the word of beautiful video! I’ll link to them here as they come in: http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/03/18/first-impressions-viddyou-premium http://legendmag.net/thelegendonline/?p=324...
Slow Transcodes On Some Videos
You may have noticed that it has taken an unexpectedly long time for some of your videos to process today. We’ve fixed the issue (on Easter Sunday no less!) and are now working to process the back-log of videos. Things should be normal within the hour (approx by 10pm PT).
The Internet Just Got a Lot Prettier
Heya Viddyou Community! There’s so much to catch you up on since the last email we sent. Features, upgrades, new faces, and more - there’s a lot happening at Viddyou all the time! Exciting New Things Are Happening Today… Viddyou is all new and more better than ever! Today we bring you awesome new features that continue to make Viddyou the best and most private home for...
February 2008
3 posts
The Viddyou Blog Now Powered By Tumblr & Disqus
I’ve been using Tumblr for my personal blog for several months now, and I love it! It facilitates communication without getting in the way. It’s simple, elegant, and effective (goals that we aspire to ourselves). Previously, we were using Wordpress, but it offered too many features we didn’t need, and lacked in a few other critical areas. So I am excited to announce the...