WordPress Video and Voting
Another Friday, another fun day here at WordPress.com. We’ve put together a new feature for you guys to play with: WordPress Video.
Here’s our intro video: (Thanks to Glenda for filming.)
Hopefully you can make much better video than we can. 
Now if you have a paid space upgrade you can upload video to WordPress.com and we’ll convert it to flash and put it in a cool little player, just like Youtube but with higher quality. Of course you can still use any of the many video services we support, this is just a little more integrated, which was a very common request you guys have made.
This is a “beta” launch so it’s only available to those with a paid space upgrade and there are still a few features that we haven’t gotten in yet. If you’d like more technical details about how to use it, check out our FAQ. If you’d like to upgrade your blog to get more space and try out this feature, you can do so for as cheap as a nickel a day, just click “Upgrades” on your dashboard.
If you make something cool, be sure to let us know in the comments. We’d love to highlight the best stuff. We’ve set the bar pretty low to start.
Finally, if you have 5 seconds be sure to vote for WordPress in the Webware awards:
May 26th, 2007 at 8:39 am
I think the above was exported at 320×240 so it’s not as high quality as it could be, sorry I’ll try again when the beer wears off.
May 26th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Corona is my beer of choice, and WordPress my blogsite of choice
Awesome feature, though I feel it’s a little small, but a nice feature nonetheless.
Definitely I’ll vote.
May 26th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Looking great, a well-needed feature.
May 26th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Slick video! But when are we getting the Beer Upgrade?
May 26th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I voted!
May 26th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Beer Bad. WordPress Good!
May 26th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Checked and voted. Thanks and good luck!
May 26th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Thanks Brother Very Much For These Cools Features You Provide Us With Every Few Days.
I Have Voted Of Course For WordPress.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Nice feature, much better than the youtube embed which expands the resolution and causes the movies to become pixelated.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Though I didn’t pay for upgrade, I like it!
WordPress Video looks terrific.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:31 am
wow…. Matt this is awesome… can you make your flash player like http://www.blip.tv ? it does high quality widescreen (16×9) really well…
the problem with youtube is the lack of true 16×9 videos…
Anyways. you are awesome good luck with everything.
Also the video above is pixelated.
Mike twitter.com/mikehedge
May 26th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Matt, I like the rezise.
480×272 makes a nice widescreen player size (only for true 16×9 stuff like http://www.blip.tv)
May 26th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Brilliant! I’m just off to blow the dust off my video camera. Thanks, guys!
May 26th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Sweet, i’ll try it, but i gotta pay first
May 26th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Ok. Voted!
Now, what about giving ‘vidoes’ to unpaid users
May 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
u has mai votez!
May 26th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Nice!, thx
May 26th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Tx for the videos, and voted for ya as well
May 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Snap, for I while I thought there was a poll widget.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
well..i can see its fine ..great ! awesome
May 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Yay! You guys just keep it coming!!
I don’t have the paid upgrade, but I can’t wait until you make it available to everyone.
For now I’ll just have to stick to slideshare
May 26th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Waiting for the non paid version…
(good job)
May 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Nice job guys! That is pretty decent quality.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
That is a really kewl video. Just wanted to know what are the video formats you actually support for upload. Well I wanted to about the mp4 format, currently that is what Nokia N70 gives you.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Great! Consider yourselves voted for and adored
May 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
great..
thanks..
May 26th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Yippee! Great reason to buy that upgraded space to go with my bought, but yet-to-be-customized CSS. Thanks! Can we plead for the new Google Analytics now? Pretty please? (sad kitty cat eyes and all… or puppy dog eyes if more convincing)
May 26th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Dudes, you need some good ol’ German Beer
Cool idea with the video feature, though. Good stuff!
May 26th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Lol, nice video you guys
Anyway, I voted for WordPress just like you told me to
May 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
what beer?
May 26th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Im the first one who vote for wordpress
May 26th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I just voted for wordpress.com, no problem.
I used to have a blog on another site (who shall remain nameless) and it wasn’t user friendly, their support was non-supportive and it was just overall pretty sub-par.
You all do a fantastic job here!
May 26th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
great stuff..! cool
May 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Hey mates, your choice of beers is really poor…
Have you ever tried Irish, Scot, Belgian or Czech beers?
Real ale, stouts, pilsner…
One of the few advantages of living in good ol’ Europe!
May 26th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Yeah the choice of beers in the fridge was a little limited.
May 26th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
good!
May 26th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Ah! You have no idea how good that makes a lot of us feel. WP is becoming a one-stop shop for a one-person media company. Soon, very soon.
Thanks, guys! And congratulations on the millionth WordPressian!
May 26th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
We just keep getting better…dont we?
May 26th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
You guys make me laugh. Love the video format. Kudos and thanks.
May 26th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Me Voted!
May 26th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
You guys are so funny – Matt, you are the best – you never fail to make me smile.
May 26th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Cool!
What about “Voting”?
May 26th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
WordPress- it’s just a not a bunch of words on a cool screen…
now it’s on a cool screen with pictures that talk and move.
wow.
amm
May 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
cool!
May 26th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Terrific stuff. Thanks so much for this and Google Apps as great add ons in the last few weeks.
May 26th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Awesome! I have some new videos in the works…this definitely makes me consider paying for the space upgrade.
May 26th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
very cool!
May 26th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Awesome awesome thanks! Definitely have my vote!
May 26th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
i was waiting for you guys to break out with a beer bong. haha j/k! (but really though
)
May 26th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Voted.
May 26th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Done. I’ve voted for WordPress in the Webware awards.
May 26th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
You know what goes great with beer? A sandwich…
May 26th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
That looks a bit “Canadian”, eh?
May 26th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
I am new to the video mania in general and needs to work my way up, but I am feeling great by joining this family. I am sure you always looking to improve things any way. Word press is sincere about doing things and I probably will start joining the pay for features anyway. It is a way to demonstrate support. Keep it up!
May 26th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Already voted man! Love it all!!
May 27th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Way cool! I’ll figure out what to do with it/how to use it one day or another. Voted, A #1.
May 27th, 2007 at 4:31 am
you guys are way too cute:)
May 27th, 2007 at 5:02 am
did exactly what I’ve been wanting to do for a looooooooong time, here’s my post with the corresponding videos! thanks guys:)
May 27th, 2007 at 5:21 am
We NEEDED this – fantastic!
May 27th, 2007 at 7:27 am
OMG! None of you have yet realized that it’s a spoof of Diggnation minus the laptops, have you?
May 27th, 2007 at 8:03 am
I voted, too. *hugs*
May 27th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Proud of wordpress! Voted!
May 27th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Hey, Matt
A very-very thank you for doingso MUCH for us!
Keep doing your brilliant work,
Vegetsu Gokazama {nick name}
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May 27th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Do you really have to PAY?
May 27th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
You got my vote!
May 27th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
WordPress the best …!
May 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Voted!!
May 27th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
voted
May 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Voted. This is a good idea. BTW, I agree with the people who say you need to drink better beer. If you’re going to drink bottled beer, then a good Mexican one is Negra Modelo, or Sam Adams has great beers, and Shiner Bock is excellent. I don’t drink much bottled beer anymore, so I can’t give you a comprehensive list. However, there are Porters, and Stouts, Strong Sctoch Ales and IPAs all over the place. Live a ittle! Have a beer with real flavor: taste the hops, the complexity, the deep aromas. Drinking a Corona is not better than drinking something from the big 3: Miller, Anheuser-Busch, or Coors, and those beers all suck big time!
Of course, to really enjoy beer, make it yourself, or drink at your local brewpub, or at least drink beers on tap from local microbreweries! Enjoy the beer! not the alcohol alone. I’m not saying alcohol is not a big part of it, but without taste, you may as well drink dilute ethanol, if that’s all you want.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
So you guys are boozing while doing this? That would explain some of the problems…
May 27th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Vote from me
May 27th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
voted dude…
May 27th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Voted for wordpress ftw!!!! You rock guys! Keep it up~
May 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Terrible video. Awesome feature. Oh, and I voted for you guys.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Nice, Thanks.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I voted! Cheers!
May 28th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Cool ! it would be like Youtube ?
May 28th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Voted for WordPress!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:44 am
thank god there was no cat
May 29th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Nothing for FREE on WordPress these days?
I’ve vote for you! Good luck!
May 29th, 2007 at 2:21 am
I will be back to see more later……………….
May 29th, 2007 at 3:02 am
Congrats if it really is your 1 million, I’ll toast to anyone’s success, I don’t know who the other guy is to vote for so I’ll vote for wordpress. As for the video and paying I think you are not thinking big. Google bought youtube why? Microsoft got on the bandwagon with other big hitters why?
Recently Ebay added Video, shallow as it was through youtube why? Almost any news source worth reading has said video is the wave of the future. Is there a massage here? If wordpress really wants to set itself apart why not offer video for free to get all it’s participants on the bandwagon. The truth is not everyone will rush to this freebe even if it is free because it’s a new frontier and it is just one more thing that will be stretching the limited time that we all have. The good news is that wordpress will be setting the bar for all the other want to be’s.
May 29th, 2007 at 6:51 am
I already voted for WordPress
May 29th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Finally, I’ve been waiting for this one!
Just a few questions before I order a space upgrade:
Which Flash codec is used? Is it the wonderful On2 VP6?
At what bitrate are the videos encoded?
May 29th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Voted!
May 30th, 2007 at 12:27 am
voted for wordpress!
May 30th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Voted for WP.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:39 am
AWESOME!!!!!! Looks GREAT!
I can’t wait untill it’s avalible for us users who don’t need the space!
I hope we’ll be able to use video files hosted elsewhere, just like your audio player!
And I voted!
Thanks so much y’all!!!!!!
May 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Voted yesterday, good luck in the competition.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Voted!!
May 30th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Great feature, thanks a lot!!!