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The life-span of startup review sites…
It’s quite interesting. Michael Arrington deleted my comment yesterday, linking to an Alexa chart of Techcrunch traffic and page views, from the time they started out. All I’d done was link to the chart…seriously…that’s it.
Of course, here are the stats from Alexa. I still haven’t quite bought into the accuracy of Feedburner stats(although I think the tool itself...
Brightcove 3
Someone’s leaked Brightcove 3 screenshots, and you can have a look at them on Techcrunch. The screenshots are nothing short of awesome, and kudos to Brightcove’s interaction design team- we honor you.
However, I think maybe…just maybe…Brightcove is focusing a disproportionate amount of effort on publisher control, when they really could be doing something more about end-user...
Announcing: a Pricing Model
It took a lot of coffee, tea, Coke, and red-ink on a white-board to come up with this, but we finally have a pricing model in place.
We split up our pricing into two parts.
First, we charge for the Software platform: $49.
That’s a one-time fee, enabling access to all the cool publishing and distribution features available in Marcellus.
Second, we charge for the Infrastructure: $10/month.
This...
09.30.08
We just went live with the Marcellus web site.
Quite a few folks have already requested a trial account, so that’s the first order of business for us: hook ‘em up.
In parallel, we’re getting our act together on making the application infrastructure rock-solid, so we can handle an unlimited number of uploading and encoding jobs.
Important dates are October 05, 2008 (we start accepting...
Amazon announces CDN plans
Amazon just announced its plans to launch its own content delivery network. Read more about it at GigaOm.
This is excellent, excellent news, especially because we’re already knit together tightly with the Amazon S3 storage and delivery platform.
Once live, the CDN service will enable our content publishers to distribute content to their viewers globally- a lot faster than what it is today, and...
Disqusions enabled.
Yesterday, we added support for the Disqus commenting system.
Many thanks to Daniel Ha at Disqus for being real patient with us during this process.
Now, content owners can enable threaded discussions for each video, with a single click.
This is how easy it is.
And here is how it looks when placed next to your video
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Disqusions enabled.", url: "http://blog.marcellus.tv/disqusions-enabled/"...
Chrome is here
Looks slick, and has been engineered beautifully.
There’s enough already said about it, but just like a lot of other things, this is worth checking out yourself: http://www.google.com/chrome
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Tags: google
Release early, and then iterate
Well…yes, but what/when do you release/iterate?
As ringleader, I’m having a very hard time deciding what a good point would be to launch our first release of m3.
So one of the first things I am going to do tomorrow is sit with the entire development team, and spend an hour re-grouping. We need to make a list, check it thrice, and mark off the good-to-haves vs. the must-haves.
And then launch...
Tags: launch
When a blog is really a diary
We‘re about two weeks away from launch.
So I don’t expect a lot of you to be reading this. However, documentation always has a beginning, and this will be ours. Even if it is more a diary than a blog.
A few hours ago, Google launched Google Video for Enterprises. The good news is that it is NOT free. It costs $50/user account/year, as part of the Google Apps Premier package.
We’re...
Tags: launch, not-so-hot
