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 solution. If you have an embedded video that previously wasn’t showing up properly, just grab the new embed code (by clicking on the ‘Share’ button when viewing your video), and replace it with the old one that wasn’t working right.
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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 you even tighter integration between your friends and family on Facebook, and your videos on Viddyou.
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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
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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 video player fixes this issue.
You may need to quit your browser or empty your cache (also sometimes called “Temporary Internet Files”) in order to receive the update.
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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 system takes over twelve different factors into account when selecting the featured videos for the day including: relevance, activity, quality, and community feedback. Only videos that have their privacy setting set to “Public” are considered for the front page.
We hope you enjoy the change and discover some new cool people on Viddyou!
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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 so far with all the painfully low quality garbage out there.”
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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 :]
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