WorldTV

We are pleased to report that issues concerning adding videos from Metacafe and Daily Motion have been resolved.

Somos contentes de informar que as questões acerca da utilizacao dos videos do Metacafe e  do Dailymotion foram resolvidas.

We are equally pleased to announce three new additions to our supported sites.  Vimeo is showing hockey stick growth and popularity and has been an early adopters “video must”.  Brazil is now a huge region of WorldTV users so we have dutifully added Dada and Leechvideo to our list of supported sites to hopefully offer a wider variety of content for our Brazilian/Portuguese channel creators and viewers.

Somos igualmente contentes de anunciar três novas adições aos nossos sítios suportados. O Vimeo está mostrando um crescimento de popularidade muito forte e foi um dos primeiros sites a utilisar “vídeo must”. O Brasil é agora uma região com uma forte concentracão de usuários da WorldTV portanto acrescentamos respeitosamente os sítios Dada e Leechvideo à nossa lista de sítios suportatos para oferecer confiantemente uma mais larga variedade de conteúdo aos nossos criadores de canais e espectadores Brasileiros/Portugueses.

Vimeo

LeechVideo

Dada.net

So why not visit your WorldTV Channel Editor and Add some URLs from these fabulous supported sites!

Então, por que não visitar o seu Editor de Canal WorldTV e acrescentar algums URLs desses fabulosos sítios!

Looking for more video content on the web?  Then WorldTV highly recommends OVGuide a super search site for all kinds of Online Video.

Voces estao procurando mais conteúdo no internete?  Então o WorldTV cordialmente recomenda a OVGuide um otimo sítio de busca de todas as espécies de Vídeos Online.

WorldTV smashed through the 50,000 channel mark last week and the growth shows no sign of slowing down. The interest among people to create their own TV channels from right around the globe is simply phenomenal. Thank you to all those who are contributing to the WorldTV community.

We now have channels from 182 countries, which by our calculation means there is only about 11 countries where there isn’t a channel from. Incredible!

WorldTV first launched in November as a means to allow anyone, anywhere in the World to create their own TV channel, and to offer the capabilities that were once only available to broadcasters. With the service available in 7 languages, people all around the globe are coming up with their own ideas of what a TV channel should look like. More than 400,000 viewers are tuning in to the World Page each month.

The range of channels is simply phenomenal - we’ve enjoyed watching a huge array of genres and styles from across the planet - see below for a small selection of our faves…

Comedy http://worldtv.com/george_carlin http://worldtv.com/comedy http://worldtv.com/wipe_out_tv/

Popular http://worldtv.com/best_of_american_idol http://worldtv.com/beertv

Music http://worldtv.com/elvis-channel http://worldtv.com/oldravers http://worldtv.com/wonkypop http://worldtv.com/pink_floyd http://worldtv.com/thebestofglastonbury

Cultural http://worldtv.com/evita http://worldtv.com/champagne

Environmental http://worldtv.com/savetheplanet http://worldtv.com/naturetv http://worldtv.com/the_deep http://worldtv.com/kruger_national_tv

Adventure http://worldtv.com/icarus http://www.worldtv.com/alpine_tv http://www.world.com/stuntmania

Kids http://worldtv.com/bugsbunny http://worldtv.com/70skidstv http://worldtv.com/kidsluckydip

Social & Political http://www.worldtv.com/beijingyesorno http://worldtv.com/jointherevolution http://worldtv.com/georgebushtv http://worldtv.com/proyectomatriztv http://worldtv.com/free_zimbabwe

Tech http://worldtv.com/technology http://worldtv.com/tedtalks http://worldtv.com/tcukpitches2008 http://worldtv.com/inplainenglish

Embedded Channels
http://www.hifashion.web.pt
http://tv.zonatrek.es
http://www.servicepark.org (Rally channel from Norway)
http://www.goldtraveltv.com (Travel channel from Portugal)
http://www.dgea.es (Video games channel from Spain)
http://www.hottunaint.com

With some super spiffy new features planned for future, including better channel finding tools, new player options, embeddable player options and create-your-own-tv-network functionality, the WorldTV team are beavering like bees to achieve our goal of creating a truly alternative global TV network, accessible to all, and living and loving on the Internet.

If you’ve ever fancied the idea of becoming your own media mogul, or simply want a way to gather all your favourite videos in one place WorldTV is where you can make this happen.

Thank you again to everyone who’s contributing and to all those helping shape the future of WorldTV by contributing ideas through our feedback pages.

WorldTV rock on!

WorldTV is one of 21 lucky Digital Mission winners selected by the UK Government’s Department of Trade & Investment to attend the Web 2.0 Expo conference in New York in September.

Digital Mission is organized by Chinwag on behalf of the UK Government with the idea of enabling 21 UK digital companies to expand into overseas markets and attract investment from outside the UK.

We are very excited here at WorldTV to be part of Digital Mission as this represents a unique opportunity to interact with the Tech industry across the pond, show off our service and hopefully meet a host of new influential contacts at one of the key international web events of the year.

Flying the flag for WorldTV will be our Founder and CEO Alx Klive who will be in Geek Nirvana!

Below is a list of the other lucky winners!

B View - http://www.bview.co.uk
Harvest Digital - http://www.harvestdigital.com
Head London - http://www.headlondon.com
Headshift - http://www.headshift.com
Huddle - http://www.huddle.net
idiomag - http://www.idiomag.com
KMP - http://www.kmp.co.uk
Market Sentinel - http://www.marketsentinel.com
Mippin - http://www.mippin.com
Littleloud - http://www.littleloud.com
QuickTV - http://www.quick.tv
Slicethepie - http://www.slicethepie.com
Smarkets - http://smarkets.com/
Sweemo - http://www.sweemo.com/
Tactile CRM - http://www.tactilecrm.com/
Tempero - http://www.tempero.co.uk
UGame - http://www.ugame.net
UnLtdWorld - http://www.unltdworld.com
Unruly Media - http://www.unrulymedia.com
Veedow - http://www.veedow.com

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Then simply complete the form (link below) and they will be posted to you via snail mail

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¿Querrías una Pegatina de WorldTV?

Entonces complete simplemente la forma (enlace debajo de) y ellos serán enviados a usted a través de correo normal..

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E muito facil! Preencha o formulario (”link” em baixo) e eles lhe serão enviados pelo correio.

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We’re pleased to announce that an embeddable player for WorldTV (above) is now in final testing and will shortly be available to all channel owners. Today it got its first workout in a post on Techcrunch.com.

We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to implement a genuinely useful and flexible embeddable video player, and the kind of features people want most. This is just the first small step in our plans to offer a range of widgets that give content publishers genuinely useful options, wrapped up in classic WorldTV ease-of-use fashion.

The embeddable player you see has had no specific customization for Techcrunch other than we are hosting the video content on WorldTV. The logo you see is the channel logo for the channel, and appears automatically as a way of branding the player to the content owner. We believe strongly in keeping WorldTV branding to a minimum and will offer options for eliminating it entirely.

Getting this player out the door has been three days of all night coding to meet the Techcrunch deadline. Surviving the inevitable onslaught of traffic from being on the homepage of Techcrunch has also been… interesting!

Watch this space, and don’t forget to sign up for our blog-by-email service if you want to be sure not to miss our exciting news announcements to come.

Our friends over at Qik have been hard at work lately on expanding the range of phones which can be used to do live video streaming. This means WorldTV users will soon have a much wider selection of phones to add live video to their channels.

First up, we can tell you that iPhone support is coming. You can read more over at Mashable and see a demo of it in action by Michael from Qik.

Secondly, Qik will soon have support for Windows mobile based phones. Coverage of this over at Techcrunch.

If live mobile phone video streaming is of interest to you, be sure to follow the Qik blog. We’ll also post updates here as the support for both goes live.

WorldTV has a crack squad of coders working hard behind the scenes to bring you all the clever features that make up WorldTV.

Myself (Alx) and Toby are today heading off today to the Ukraine for a couple of weeks to work alongside our development crew.

If you’re interested in following our trip, I’ll be blogging about it on my personal blog complete with live mobile phone videos like this one (archived videos here), and Toby will be twittering.

Big news in WorldTV land. Starting today, you can now broadcast LIVE to your WorldTV channel from your mobile phone.

We’ve partnered with the hottest name in mobile phone broadcasting, Qik, to allow for a whole range of new functionality that is really very cool.

Basically how it works is that you can now use your mobile phone as a live video camera for WorldTV, which can ‘take over’ your WorldTV channel whenever you feel like it. If someone is watching your channel when you start recording video using your phone, the ‘regularly scheduled programming’ (your playlist) is paused, and the live signal from your phone begins. As soon as you stop using your phone, the regular programming resumes from the point you left off. Simple!

All the live recordings that you make with your phone are automatically archived as clips in your Library. This means you can capture video of events that you’re at, safe in the knowledge that you’ll have a copy of them stored in your WorldTV Library. You can then download them to your hard drive by right-clicking on the file in your Library. You can do this for any file in your Library actually.

A range of useful options let you customize the functionality as you wish. For example, you can choose not to have your phone recordings go live on your WorldTV channel as you’re making them, but be archived straight to your Library instead.

You can choose sound effects and text that play when a live broadcast begins. At the moment, around 40 phones are supported, all from Nokia. More are on the way. If you’re in the market for a new phone we recommend the Nokia N95 or the Nokia E51 (with camera). Both phones work great with WorldTV and Qik.

There’s a number of ways you can use this new functionality.

• As a simple means to record things while you’re out and about, knowing they will be safely archived in your WorldTV library without you having to do anything else. No messy cables or confusing software to deal with.
• Live broadcasts from concerts or events for your friends. Simply tell your friends to go to your WorldTV channel and when you start broadcasting live, the channel will automatically switch to the live stream. If you use Twitter, Qik can notify your Twitter followers whenever you are broadcasting live.
• Become a Lifecaster. Basically you can now broadcast any interesting (or not so interesting!) happenings in your life to friends, family and indeed the World. Walking down the street, going for a drive, on the beach, at a party.
• Add live content to your WorldTV channel from other Qik broadcasters. If you find someone who regularly broadcasts on the Qik.com site, you can add them as a ’source’ without having to own a supported phone yourself. Simply add their Qik username as a source.

Qik will guide you through the process of setting up your phone for live streaming. The instructions are not terribly complicated, but you should set aside 30 mins or so to get it right. This is cutting edge stuff.

The basic process is this…

1. You sign up for an account on Qik.com (Use this link and you’ll be approved for a Qik account right away)
2. They send you an SMS with a link to install the Qik live broadcasting software on your phone
3. Play around with the software and phone, make sure your videos are appearing in your Qik account (on Qik.com). If you get a ‘certificate error’ issue upon installation, see this solution.
4. Create a custom Qik username for your Qik profile. In other words… change your Qik username to something more memorable. This part is important. Use the ‘Edit my profile’ link when logged into Qik and select ‘Change your username’.
5. Add your new Qik username to your existing WorldTV channel in the Editor (on the ‘Phone’ tab)
6. Configure any options you want using our handy wizard, or simply use the defaults
7. Start broadcasting live from your mobile phone to WorldTV

Like everything on WorldTV at the moment, this service is in ‘beta’, meaning there may still be quirks while we iron out the wrinkles. We really value your feedback, so please make use of the new feedback tab on the left of these pages to tell us what you think, or how it could be improved. If you have any difficulties getting it set up, feel free to comment directly on this post below and we can then respond publicly so everyone can benefit from the advice.

Qik are a cool company that launched the same time as WorldTV. We’ll be working with them to bring you many more cool features in future.

N.B. If you’re an existing Qik user coming to WorldTV for the first time, you can import all your existing Qik videos into WorldTV simply by pasting in your Qik URL (eg qik.com/smashing) into the ‘Add Clip by URL’ tab on WorldTV. You’ll need to create a channel on WorldTV first which takes no time at all. Simply use our very easy-to-use channel creation wizard.

Page search improved

We’ve improved our search feature (on the right of this page) so that all pages of the site are searched. Previously only posts like this one were being searched and not ’static’ pages such as our FAQ or Manual. With this improvement, it is now well worth doing a search if you come across a problem or want more info on something.

RSS Feature now in testing

We’ve been quietly testing an often requested feature which is RSS feeds for WorldTV channels. First suggested to us by tech blogger Robert Scoble, we’ve been tweaking the formatting of it the past couple of weeks, and while those tweaks are still ongoing, you can start experimenting with it right away (if RSS is your bag) by simply adding /rss onto the end of any WorldTV channel URL. (Eg. http://worldtv.com/comedy/rss).

Not everyone ‘gets’ RSS but basically in our case it means that viewers can be notified automatically when your WorldTV channel is updated. Anyone who uses an RSS reader such as Google Reader can now get updates when you add new content to your channel. If you’ve not tried Google Reader, it’s worth a try.

Twitter community now on WorldTV

We’ve added a WorldTV Community section to the right of these pages for all our Twitter followers. It displays the thoughts and musings of some 200 WorldTV users who are active on Twitter. If you don’t know what Twitter is and don’t get it, fear not, we didn’t either at first. What changed everything for us was trying the excellent and free Twitterrific for Mac, which makes Twittering as easy as instant messaging. If you’re on a PC, an equivalent and highly rated program is Twhirl. You don’t need either of these programs to use Twitter, but they do make the experience a lot more compelling. Sign up to join our Twitter community here.

To the left of your browser you should see a new small ‘Feedback’ tab hanging off the side of the page.

Since we value your feedback and suggestions a great deal, we’ve added this new feature so you can participate more fully and easily in the conversation regarding future features for WorldTV.

Similar to Digg, you can vote on features and suggestions to show which ones you feel most passionately about. It’s easy to use just like everything on WorldTV, and there’ll be speedy responses from our team indicating when suggested features might be introduced. You can also use the Feedback feature to send private suggestions directly to our development team.

Please note the feedback tab is not intended for customer support issues! For these, please continue to use reception@worldtv.com.

Why not suggest a new feature for WorldTV now?