We’re aware of major issues with the system at this time which we are looking into. We will post updates on the situation as soon as we have more news. In the meantime please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.
The WorldTV homepage is now in 6 languages, to complement the translations of the rest of the WorldTV application into Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, French and Russian.
Bienvenidos, Bem-vindo, Bitaemo, Bienvenue and Dobro pozhalovat!
So the dust has settled, the team has just about got over our hangovers from the launch party, and we’re keen to know what people think of the new features.
We’d especially like to know what people think of the new World page, and the multi-language versions of the application. We’ve got some immediate improvements planned, an ‘Editor’s Pick’ icon for the World page to help highlight interesting channels, and a means for people to know how many people have visited their channel.
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A little late notice, possibly something to do with a party last night?, we’re happy to announce the launch of the WorldTV ‘World’ page and translations of the WorldTV interface into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Russian.
The World page is pretty cool. Through it you can now browse channels created by other people, all categorized by country. You can see the most watched channels in every country simply by browsing and zooming the World map.
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.
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.
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