People still love great quality video

Today I'm content simply to blow our own trumpet a little as I came across the following plaudit for Mydeo "This is best sharing site for quality that I have come across to date, much better than Blip.tv, google and the tube. Blip.tv offers a flash format and also a choice of WMV under its movie pane, still good, but the quality is not on par with Mydeo as of yet." found on Sport-Touring.Net.

Given that we haven't updated much on the consumer side for so long it is gratifying to know that people are still loving great quality video, which is what we are all about. Also today we are attending the MediaTech 100 where LibraryHouse are celebrating the hottest 100 private mediatech companies in Europe. Mydeo have been selected by rigorously assessing companies using Library House proprietary data filters, and an expert advisory panel, and its good to see friend of Mydeo such as WAYN and Rummble there too!

What's m3 then?

It's here! at last... I'm happy to say that m3, our rich media content delivery platform is ready and launched - in beta for now.

So what is it? Well we have, for a long time, been fielding requests from all sorts of businesses looking for something slightly different from our core consumer offer. These ranged from corporates looking for quick turnaround and low setup costs for the delivery of rich media campaigns to small businesses seeking an affordable entry level for content delivery to relieve the pressure on their web infrastructure. m3 is the result of that and more specifically of negotiations we have been having with some agencies and hosting providers who are desperate to provide rich media content delivery services to their clients.

The service provides users with the ability to very quickly register and upload assets in any format for delivery over the sort of scalable global content delivery network usually only affordable to large corporates and media owners. It has a very low entry level at £50pm and no setup costs at all. It currently supports progressive download for Flash, Quicktime, h.264 or any other video format, http content delivery for html, pdf, mp3, ppt or any other file format you wish to distribute, and Windows Media streaming. Next week we will be adding full blown Flash streaming as well.

More to follow

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m3 on techcrunch

So a few long nights later and we have a release, a beta, but a release. m3 is our new content delivery platform for enterprises and agencies to manage their rich media assets. And no sooner is it out than its on techcrunch (well UK anyway).

Hears a wordle of it if you cant be bothered... :)

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Ola San francisco

Well we're here. After 11 hours on a United plane with a token for either 'a free alcoholic beverage' or 'a set of earphones' we arrived slightly jaded but intent on seeing some more of San Francisco. A jaunt with some of the more charming entrepreneurs around the piers and union square,  punctuated with some chowder in sourdough, meant for a reassuringly touristy start. It was however followed by the techcrunch cocktails which brought us back to the purpose of the visit - to network, network, network! We seem to have successfully irritated the locals already, with some chavvy stranger pointing out that we thought we were cool, but that our jackets were 'contrived' - granted there was a bit of the entrepreneurs uniform going on but I guess i am going to have to think less about clothing from this point on!

Lots of familiar and friendly faces, good to see Scott and Rob, and get a little closer to some of the start-up teams I haven't had the chance to meet yet. Last night, a day that had been going on for ages and seemed to be culminating with rather a long time in the bar here at the Clift, rather randomly ended with a chilly trawl across the city to a place called Vessel. A few of the more hardy travellers amongst us made the trek over there and made full use of the DJ's services taking us to a respectable 2am - a decent attempt to avoid any major jetlag issues methinks. That being said I am up and blogging now, so maybe its not quite sorted yet!

Today holds a brunch event with some press and PR folk, and after that I'm planning on meeting my old friend Johnny and going sailing in the bay - which sounds absolutely amazing - or there's a barbeque 'in the valley' if that falls through.

Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources

A very exhaustive list of video resources from mashable here...
Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources
Nice to get a mention for Mydeo and some other useful sites in there for the moment.. :)

Home movies for home movers

Following on from our press release earlier in the year the Telegraph this weekend reported on the growing trend for Estate Agents and even private sellers to take advantage of video for the promotion of properties for sale. Some interesting tips on shooting for property videos here, we are finding that many of the US based 'realtors' use simpler means still to avoid pitfalls of poor production values. Many of our users are collating still shots into videos using tools such as PhotoStory. With high quality video hosting like this you can really zoom into specifics of the property and control the presentation without fear of the dreaded 'wobble-cam'.

Silverlight finally announced

So its finally out, announced and showcased at NAB this morning. The name is not what I was hoping for, but the reaction seems to be pretty good and it is a distinct improvement of wpf/e! Tim Sneath tells us all about what's in it here and for those of us playing with it for a while there's some more technical stuff here... More to follow on this soon...

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