If you use our upload by email feature you may have noticed some misbehaving over the past few hours. We’re sorry about that. It’s sorted out now.
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Uploads by email were negatively affected by yesterday’s push. If you sent an email to your upload email address after 4:30 pm PST yesterday (in other timezones) you may not have seen your upload until today.
The good news is that they were only delayed, not lost. All uploads have been processed and are available in your channel. Any uploads from now on should be processed at the normal speedy pace.
A note to the frustrated: If you tried uploading multiple times you might have ended up with duplicates in your channel. We tried to detect them, but we can’t be 100% sure that we got them all. You might want to give your recent items a quick once over.
In conclusion. We’re sorry about the delay. Thanks for bearing with us.
We just rolled out a very big release for us. We made some quite big architectural changes that our users won’t notice, but behind the scenes are rather large.
Here is the top level list of features and changes:
We added a ’subscribe’ button to every users’ channel. There are three ways users can subscribe to other user channels; via email, via SMS or through RSS. Everytime a user uploads a file, they are sent an email, sms or standard RSS updates. We are excited about this feature especially for the implications on the mobile application. A user can upload a multimedia file (video, photo, audio or text) and if they’re friends are subscribed to their channel via SMS, they will get a message and see the new content in ‘real time.’ This innovation, where a user uploads a video and is made available instantly on mobile phones, is not available anywhere else and we are excited to have our users start playing with it.
We changed our ‘logged out’ home page with a simpler message, ‘Your videos, your photos, anytime, anywhere.’ We also added featured content on the home page so people can see some of the great content our users have contributed to the site.
We cleaned up design across the site, still getting to those last pages that need design attention. This will hopefully make for better ease of use and navigation.
We added better share functions. We now allow users to customize the message and send to a users’ mobile phone number.
There are some other smaller features, but those are the biggest.
We now will take a bit of a break for the holidays and come back and continue to add more features. We’d love to hear your feedback.
Thanks - have a great Holiday Season!
Our friends over at Groovy Green, did an interview with us about Treemo. Groovy Green is green lifestyle and educational web site on all things green. Please read the whole article, you will be graded if you missed any of the main points.
Also, in light of the Verizon/YouTube deal that was announced last week, GigaOm,did an article on alternatives to YouTube, which we were hightlighted. Check it out here.
We’re working diligently on the .5 release and hoping to get it out very soon. I can’t tell you what great features we will be launching, but the innovations keep coming here.