Firstly, I want to apologize to everyone watching the Startup School videos today who experienced ‘dropouts’ - where the video file would stop playing before reaching the end.  It turns out startup school was really popular, and our server ran into a few scaling issues serving all those videos

We’re working on a solution right now, but in the mean time if you refresh the page and then seek to the section you were up to, you will be able to continue watching.

And thanks again for all the feedback - good and bad.  We read everything and are striving to make Omnisio better each day.

Well it’s been a little over a week now since we launched.  I thought I’d take a break from the craziness to write about what’s been going on.

Press

We had some great press coverage which has driven a lot of traffic to our site, including:

Plus dozens of other smaller blogs

New Features

After launching we very quickly realized that a lot of our international users were complaining about lack of unicode support in the comments - so we added it the next day.  A few days later we added the ability to search for videos from within our authoring tool (to save people the trouble of flipping between youtube and Omnisio browser windows when building a compilation).

In the next day or so we will roll out some better embedding controls, and a variety of other enhancements in response to user feedback.  We read everything you guys send us, so please keep the feedback coming in.  We want to make Omnisio the best it can be!

Interesting Statistics

The most commented video is  Ten best Ballmer-goes-nuts videos with 387 comments.  This makes watching the video a very interesting experience.  Don’t forget you can turn off comments with the button in the top-right, in case you want to be able to see the actual video

The longest compilation is Rebol Programming Tutorials by Nick Antonaccio, which features a staggering 72 clips for a total time of 8 hours and 57 minutes!  In second place is Julius Sumner Miller with 58 clips totalling 7 hours and 4 minutes, and in third place The BBS Documentary at 4 hours and 55 minutes.

Over 2,500 video compilations have been created so far.

What next?

We are hard at work on our next set of features.  Some of the things in the works are specialized Facebook and MySpace applications to make it easy for you to share and discuss video clips with your friends, and a public release of our slide synchronization tools.

As I said, keep the feedback coming in!  We read everything and use this to prioritize the features and enhancements that we are working on.