Particles will be present at LeWeb’09 next week in Paris, France. The show will take place on Dec 9th and 10th!

With over 1800 participants from 30 countries, LeWeb is the #1 European Internet event.

LeWeb brings together the best and the brightest people of the web industry from attendees to speakers. Take advantage of a unique setting of networking areas around the main stage to meet your peers, to get inspired, to grow your business, to develop partnerships…

We’ll be so pleased to meet you there and introduce our Video Web Services:
- HeyWatch, our Video Transcoding Platform
- HeySpread, our Video Distribution and Tracking Platform

Feel free to contact Eric, our VP Business - eric(dot)fontaine(at)particle-s(dot)com

We are very proud to announce a new partnership with one of the trendiest and powerful Online Video Platform, LongTail Video.

LongTail Video is the premier destination for online video solutions. Whether you’re a webmaster searching for the best online player compatible with dozens of plugins and skins; a consumer looking for a great desktop player; or a publisher interested in monetizing their videos, LongTail Video can help.

The Company’s media players have streamed billions of videos and their AdSolution serves millions of pre-roll, overlay mid-roll and post-roll ads daily. LongTail solves the video puzzle… one piece at a time.

Now, you can select two powerful modules to personalize your LongTail Video platform:
- HeyWatch if you need professional and fully customizable Online Video Transcoding - here -
- HeySpread if you want to mass-distribute and track your video over the Web - here -

Hi People,

If you are a live video lovers, you already are a member of Justin.tv. Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With 40 million unique visitors per month and over 500,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world.

After the Live, each video is recorded as episodes. Justin.tv integrates HeySpread to allow its own users to mass-distribute these episodes over the trendiest video portals and social networks we support. The implementation is done thanks to our REST API. With this features, we help Justin.tv’s users to viralize their content and make it even more popular on the Web.

As you may already notice, the list of video sites we support changed many times since the launch of HeySpread. The problem is that your application didn’t know the sites we add or remove.

So, we decided to give you a way to know what are the sites we currently support via this simple API call: GET /sites. You also get other interesting information like the registration link, the favicon and the video size limit.

You can have a look at the documentation here.

Hi People,

If you are a Twitter fan and a video addict, you will love TwitVid for sure. TwitVid lets you share videos on Twitter. Simple but so great. You can share your video from the site itself using the uploader, a dead simple API, your mobile via Email or MMS. And also via a your Webcam.

You can get your TwitVid Widget and show your latest TwitVids on your blog or site.

Besides, great addictive features are coming soon such as Realtime uploads. With Realtime uploads your followers will be able to watch the video as it’s uploading.

TwitVid uses HeyWatch to convert videos in the highest quality for their users.

By the way, the TwitVid team is currently integrating HeySpread to allow their users to automatically upload their videos to YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and others.

TwitVid is the next so promising Twitter service. You will be addict.

Hi People,

If you are familiar with big events in the World, you may know Lift Conference for sure. Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn changes into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.

This year LIFT’09 will take place in Marseille, France, on June 18,19 and 20 with an ambitious and optimistic purpose: “Hands-On Future“. A future where we are all actors of change.

So, we are very proud to be the first partner of the brand new video department of LIFT. HeySpread will power the video activity by mass-uploading and tracking all the video assets from LIFT over the 15 trendiest video sharing platforms.

Thanks to all the Team and especially to Laurent Haug who is the founder and CEO of the Lift Conference.

Many of you asked to bring Myspace back. It’s now done.

Dear People,

We will experience a downtime for both HeyWatch and HeySpread, due to an electricity network improvement coming from our Web hosting provider.

This will take 1 hour max. But maybe far less.

Please, check your timezone below:
- April, Monday the 6 from 6pm to 7pm EST (USA)
- April, Monday the 6 from 3pm to 4pm PST (USA)
- April, Tuesday the 7 between midnight and 1am GMT+2 (Europe)

We are sorry for the inconvenience, even if it is not on our side.

Best regards,

Eric Fontaine.
VP Business.

Hi People,

We have just created the product page for Particles on Facebook.
Become a Fan to be updated with all the new features. Besides, let us know what you would like to see on both HeyWatch and HeySpread. We want this page to be a new way to communicate.

See you on Facebook!

Great feature today, you can now record yourself directly on HeySpread and send your video to the best platforms in just seconds. Just click on the Webcam link and you’re ready.

For now, all the videos you record belong to the same account “particles” on Seesmic.

Also, when you record a video using Adobe Flash, the audio codec is nellymoser which is not supported by the video platforms. So, you must use the convert option otherwise the video won’t be accepted at all. Note that the option is checked by default if you use the webcam source.