Hi People,

We’ve set up a wiki to easily manage documentations, howtos and to share your tips.

What is hot today: “Business” offer has just been released with Full API, external upload, and higher encoding capacity.

From now, companies can really use Hey!Watch as a full integrated tool to develop their own project. Besides we propose a new way to upload (external upload): companies can transfer videos transparently from their site directly to Hey!Watch.
Go to your account page and click the new tab “Developer” to see all the new options. We also wrote an howto to integrate the external upload.

We propose you four different plans to best suit your needs. The max encode per month is variable and go from 1000 to 10000.

The video codec H264 is now available in output. We’ve then added the MP4 H264 format.
We’ve also seen a lot of traffic coming from delicious yesterday, it’s good to be hot:

By the way, an awesome article was published today on Masternewmedia. Many thanks to the author Robin Good!

This morning (Paris Time), Hey!Watch was not accessible for about 2 hours. One of our server got a crash disk. It’s now fixed.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi people!

We’ve added stuffs to the mobile version. This is now possible to upload a video via your mobile dashboard. Also, you can subscribe to your HW podcast, if your mobile can handle it.

In fact, there are now two ways to authenticate when subscribe to your RSS: Basic auth HTTP (the old one) and auth via a private key (the default one).

Then, thanks to the new one, any podcast / RSS client can now support our RSS (a lot of people had problems with it).

And don’t forget that is the same address to access both Web and Mobile sites.

Thank you and congratulations to all!

Many thanks for the emails, feedbacks and suggests we received every days. Everybody enjoyed the service and to be honest, we are proud of that because we worked hard to create a full service easy to use.

So many people came to visit us and ask for an invite during the beta. We did not expect to see such an activity because of Christmas Holidays. So great!

But now the Beta has finished. Actually, we don’t want to stay in Beta forever ;)

Thus, we are pleased to show how you like using HW…

• We already have addict Watchers who encode videos each day
• You enjoy grabbing online videos.
• You often launch night encoding sessions to get your videos ready for the morning.
• You also plan to build your own services on top of HW and that’s really what we want by proposing the API.
• We noticed that a lot of formats were created

… And what do you think about it:

• High speed and high quality encoding process
• For you, handling Hey!Watch is like stealing a candy from a baby
• You think that Hey!Watch answers a growing need for video encoding

The beta test was really positive for us. We’ve added things and fixed many bugs thanks to you.

Here are the formats we added:

• Zune
• iRiver H3×0
• iAudio X5
• TiVo DVR
• 3GPP2

New stuffs and fixed bugs

• New offers with no more file size limit. (see below)

Hey!Watch plans

• A forum for you to ask questions and be involved
• Show the format of the encoded video permanently (see below)

Show the format of the video

• Add a ping function which notifies you by HTTP when an encode is done
• Rename the title of an encoded video will rename the file name too
• With a Watcher account, you can encode a video multiple times
• Show specific error (if possible) when an encode failed
• Fix file upload in safari
• Add invoices page to track your payments (see below)

All your invoices to track your payments

All has been said, you can now freely create an account and enjoy the service at http://heywatch.com . Don’t forget that we need you to constantly improve the service. So, keep sending your ideas, suggests and bugs via our forum .