WorldTV

 

WorldTV.com founder Alx Klive interviewed on the Robert Scoble Show.

There are currently some problems with searches from Yahoo! and AOL. We are working on these issues and improving the reliability of search results in general.

An interview with our Founder from the trade publication TV Week.

Article in TV Week

DailyMotion videos are now working through the ‘add clip by url’ feature, we’ve made a subtle but important change to the secret word feature so that your password is now hidden by default on the channel settings page, and a bunch of under-the-hood improvements have been made to file storage and serving of static content so that overall stability and speed has been improved.

By now all those who signed up for our public beta have received an e-mail from us with an invitation to try out the service. So far, over 1000 of you have responded by creating a channel, and we welcome every one of you!

This includes people from all four corners of the globe, and this is particularly exciting for us. We really want WorldTV to represent an entire world of cultures and taste, and we are taking measures to ensure an even distribution of users across the globe. We will be launching multi-language capability in a matter of weeks not months, and if you are interested in translating a language for us, then please get in touch.

The WorldTV beta is initially limited to the first 10,000 people who sign up. There’s no complex invitation system, just first-come, first-served until we release another batch of channels. We are doing this to ensure the project scales well and that everyone has a fair and democratic opportunity to get a decent ’spot on the dial’ - to make sure everyone has a chance to get an attractive channel URL. This will also give us a chance to look at everyone’s stuff, and to start featuring those who would like some publicity for their channels.

If you have friends who you think would be interested in WorldTV, now would be an opportune time to let them know. We’ll be introducing features for linking your channel with those of your friends in the future, and it would be good to have them involved now if this sounds like a feature you (or your friends) might be interested in.

A large part of our plans is to find effective ways to feature and promote people’s channels to a global audience. We’ll be launching a cool new ‘Watch’ page very soon which will showcase channels from around the world and allow users to find interesting channels created by interesting people. Other cool tools for promoting and featuring channels will follow. A system for seeing how many people have visited your channel and from where is also in advanced development.

WorldTV is a collective effort by a passionate group of people who are based in 7 different countries. We really want to create the very best tools for a global audience to work with online video. You can play a part in this by providing feedback (which is greatly valued) and helping us spread the word to those people who will get the most out of it.

Thank you for checking out our site, and if you’ve not done so already, consider subscribing to this page’s RSS feed or getting updates sent by e-mail.

Welcome to WorldTV!

Not everyone uses RSS, so today we have implemented a system whereby you can subscribe to all the latest WorldTV site news via e-mail. This system is provided by Feedburner.

Subscribe to WorldTV site news via e-mail 

Some updates to the site today… Navigation buttons have been added to the Editor so that Help and other pages on the site are just a click away. We’ve also improved the Player so that problematic videos (those suffering from a delay for example) are skipped more reliably and more quickly.

WorldTV lets you bookmark and playlist video from a range of supported sites. These go far beyond the well known sites supported by our search feature.

We suggest exploring the ‘Add clip by url’ tab (in the Editor) to see the sites that you can paste in url’s from. These include the excellent break.com, blip.tv and several other fabulous video sites.

Some of these sites feature much higher quality video than is normal, and you can take advantage of this since WorldTV is high definition capable. You will also find some real gems of content on these sites as they all have passionate user communities that go way beyond the mainstream.

Mixing it up with different sources has another benefit too. While we are in beta, it’s possible for our connection to one or more of these sites to go down temporarily. If you have all your eggs in one basket as it were, it could mean your channel is unwatchable should our connection to a particular site go down. By having video from a few different sources, this problem is averted.

So the tip for today is mix it up with different video sites, there’s a whole world of video out there, and you may find some real gems you wouldn’t otherwise find!

We suffered an outage to the WorldTV site over the past few hours, but all is working again now. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience.

The technology that WorldTV is built on is cutting edge. It’s what allows for example the animated video windows that appear zoom-like when you double-click on something, and the way you can move around windows in the screen and drag and drop items just like on your computer. We wanted it to be easy to use so that it is accessible to anyone.

Sometimes things don’t go to plan and the program misbehaves. A spinning clockface appears indefinitely, or there’s a window you can’t seem to close. These are all problems we are aware of which will be fixed in good time, but for the meantime a simple solution is to ‘reload’ or ‘refresh’ the page in your browser. You will rarely lose any work as the system automatically saves your stuff every 30 seconds.

So the tip is simply… refresh your browser if weird things start happening!