WorldTV

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!

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Ireland’s national newspaper the Irish Independent today ran a feature on the coming ‘TV Revolution’ which includes a nice write-up of WorldTV.

In it our Founder (pictured) talks about the channels everyone is making on WorldTV saying “People are starting to put their own shows together, ranging from music compilations to genre-specific channels such as extreme mountain biking”.

He goes on to say “We’ve worked very hard to make the interface easy to use. There’s no learning curve. My mum’s made a channel and if she can, anyone can!”

The full text of the article can be read on SiliconRepublic and the Irish Independent website.

Vic Keegan writes in the Guardian newspaper today a detailed article about WorldTV and calls it a “a laboratory for tomorrow’s film and television producers”.

WorldTV’s press release regarding live video support and its integration with Qik.com appeared on Yahoo! Finance and Forbes.

In the release distributed by Business Wire, Founder Alx Klive says “We strive to give programming control to the user, and Qik allows us to go one step further and turn the programmer into the live broadcaster, all from their mobile phone”.

A printable version of the release can be found here (PDF).

Mashable says that the addition of live video functionality into WorldTV is a smart move and serves to level the playing field for WorldTV.

The world’s number 1 technology website says WorldTV has a “simple, consumer friendly feel to it“. Techcrunch UK has extended coverage.

WorldTV’s partnership with Qik.com has been covered in the Washington Post.

WorldTV has appeared on Mashable the super Social Networking News blog that keeps you up to date with all things techy.

Recently they very kindly included WorldTV.com in their scribblings.

The WorldTV team uses Mashable on a daily basis and heartily recommends their RSS feed.

So thanks to all at Mashable for ‘getting’ us and making some excellent suggestions.

Read Mashable article here

WorldTV is a truly global experience demonstrated here by a selection of blog links from Colombia, Holland, Portugal, Spain, France, Denmark, Italy…

bleebot.com	radiovisie.eu	enter.com	jespercarlsensblog
vertele.com	youon.it	cabecavazia	yannerwan8

As always we are extremely grateful to the websites and e-journalists that have supported us with their reviews, coverage and feedback thus far. We thank you from the bottom of our Internet hearts!

Jemima Kiss from the Guardian’s Digital Content Blog interviews WorldTV Founder Alx Klive and learns how he once got inebriated with Hunter S. Thompson, after he tried to run Alx over in his jeep.

(Alx has his own blog here)