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Omnisio - The First Week
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.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:50 am
It REALLY would be great to have individual stats for the videos
It is frustrating not knowing what incoming links brought others to your video.
Also, knowing what Search Engines keywords, daily visits and what countries visitors are coming from
This would be VERY helpful
Compare these stats to one of the popular videos LINKED to in Omnisio
http://blip.tv/posts/stats/810244
These are the types of stats members should have. Even the shallow stats provided by YouTube would be better than nothng
Allow each use the option of making their stats public if they so chose
April 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for the feedback. We think stats are a great idea and we are working on it
Ryan
April 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I like the layout with the presentations on the left and the chapters or whatever you call them along the bottom.
However, some of the StartupSchool08 videos aren’t working properly. They crap out part-way through. It looks like the player is getting confused: about a few minutes in to the Bezos video, the player will suddenly display a full dark red bar, implying that it has buffered all the video, then it stops, and it won’t jump ahead at all. There is no problem replaying what has already played. I keep reloading, and the point at which it dies varies. A bit frustrating.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Sorry Stuart, its a load issue on the server. We are frantically working to increase capacity - the startup school videos ended up being a lot more popular than we anticipated
April 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Ryan: I figured it was growing pains. Those videos are indeed great! Thanks.