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 26, 2007
- Video
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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.
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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.
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Looking great, a well-needed feature.
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Slick video! But when are we getting the Beer Upgrade?
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I voted!
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Beer Bad. WordPress Good! 😉
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Checked and voted. Thanks and good luck!
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Thanks Brother Very Much For These Cools Features You Provide Us With Every Few Days.
I Have Voted Of Course For WordPress.
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Nice feature, much better than the youtube embed which expands the resolution and causes the movies to become pixelated.
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Though I didn’t pay for upgrade, I like it!
WordPress Video looks terrific.
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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
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Matt, I like the rezise.
480×272 makes a nice widescreen player size (only for true 16×9 stuff like http://www.blip.tv)
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Brilliant! I’m just off to blow the dust off my video camera. Thanks, guys!
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Sweet, i’ll try it, but i gotta pay first 😀
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Ok. Voted!
Now, what about giving ‘vidoes’ to unpaid users 🙂
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u has mai votez! 😀
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Nice!, thx
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Tx for the videos, and voted for ya as well 🙂
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Snap, for I while I thought there was a poll widget.
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well..i can see its fine ..great ! awesome 🙂
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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 🙂
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Waiting for the non paid version…
😐
(good job)
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Nice job guys! That is pretty decent quality.
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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.
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Great! Consider yourselves voted for and adored 😉
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great..
thanks..
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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)
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Dudes, you need some good ol’ German Beer 😉
Cool idea with the video feature, though. Good stuff!
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Lol, nice video you guys 😛
Anyway, I voted for WordPress just like you told me to 😀
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what beer?
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Im the first one who vote for wordpress 🙂
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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! 🙂
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great stuff..! cool
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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!
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Yeah the choice of beers in the fridge was a little limited.
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good!
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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!
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We just keep getting better…dont we?
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You guys make me laugh. Love the video format. Kudos and thanks.
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Me Voted!
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You guys are so funny – Matt, you are the best – you never fail to make me smile.
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Cool!
What about “Voting”?
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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
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cool!
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Terrific stuff. Thanks so much for this and Google Apps as great add ons in the last few weeks.
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Awesome! I have some new videos in the works…this definitely makes me consider paying for the space upgrade.
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very cool!
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Awesome awesome thanks! Definitely have my vote!
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i was waiting for you guys to break out with a beer bong. haha j/k! (but really though 😉 )
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Voted.
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Done. I’ve voted for WordPress in the Webware awards.
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You know what goes great with beer? A sandwich…
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That looks a bit “Canadian”, eh?
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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!
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Already voted man! Love it all!!
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Way cool! I’ll figure out what to do with it/how to use it one day or another. Voted, A #1.
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you guys are way too cute:)
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did exactly what I’ve been wanting to do for a looooooooong time, here’s my post with the corresponding videos! thanks guys:)
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We NEEDED this – fantastic!
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OMG! None of you have yet realized that it’s a spoof of Diggnation minus the laptops, have you?
🙂
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I voted, too. *hugs*
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Proud of wordpress! Voted!
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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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Do you really have to PAY?
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You got my vote!
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WordPress the best …!
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Voted!! 😀
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voted
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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.
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So you guys are boozing while doing this? That would explain some of the problems…
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Vote from me
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voted dude…
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Voted for wordpress ftw!!!! You rock guys! Keep it up~
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Terrible video. Awesome feature. Oh, and I voted for you guys. 🙂
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Nice, Thanks.
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I voted! Cheers!
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Cool ! it would be like Youtube ?
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Voted for WordPress! 🙂
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thank god there was no cat
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Nothing for FREE on WordPress these days?
I’ve vote for you! Good luck! 🙂
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I will be back to see more later……………….
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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.
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I already voted for WordPress 😉
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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?
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Voted! 🙂
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voted for wordpress!
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Voted for WP. 🙂
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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!!!!!!
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Voted yesterday, good luck in the competition.
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Voted!!
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Great feature, thanks a lot!!!
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