Typepad Focuses on Video
Published by Tim on 26 Oct 2005 at 7:02 pm.
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Filed under Product Reviews.
Recently, Six Apart, Inc., the owners of such blog publishing tools as Typepad (used and loved by yours truly) and Livejournal, has partnered up with internet start-up New Haven, CT based VideoEgg to make publishing video media as easy as the click of a record button.
If you’re a Typepad user, you now have the opportunity to visit typepad.videoegg.com, log in as you would at Typepad.com, and upload video that will be saved to your Typepad vlog. The interface is set-up just like the normal Typepad interface, except there are several options on how you can import video directly into your post. VideoEgg software accomodates uploading of videos from your computer’s harddrive, directly from an attached video source, a webcam, or a mobile device.
Currently VideoEgg is in it’s beta testing phases which means a couple of things. One - PC users only (sorry guys!). Two - in their own words, “While there’s no technical limit to the length of video the Publisher can post, long videos are expensive to store and stream.” That means no videos over two minutes until they figure out how to pay for bandwith.
Overall, the program itself seems to work well, especially if you aren’t interested in storing your videos on large public archives. It took about 3 minutes to completely upload a 1min. 47sec. movie clip. Not bad at all. VideoEgg has a great deal of potential, and I look forward to seeing it grow.
For more specific information, check out the VideoEgg FAQ.
Steve Garfield on 28 Oct 2005 at 4:42 am: 1
I wrote up my thoughts on this over on my Off On A Tangent blog.
It’s Flash only and doesn’t support QuickTime or Windows Media Files as RSS 2.0 enclosures.
Tim on 29 Oct 2005 at 5:03 am: 2
Hmmm…both unfortunate downfalls. Hopefully that will change.