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January 30, 2006
FireAnt is catching fire!
Its been a long week at camp FireAnt.
We launched new versions of our software for Mac and Windows (Download Now), and also a shiny new website at FireAnt.tv. The website is the most significant upgrade. It is sort of like a "TV Guide" for videoblogs. Users can log in to rate and tag channels and episodes, and also build a personal Queue of episodes to download a la carte with FireAnt. Over time we will add lots of new features to help people discover video and share with friends.
But, before we get to that stuff we need to upgrade our server. Its been running pretty hot due to the heavy traffic we're getting from sites like Digg.com and others. We've done as much optimizing as we can. Now we know we need to take it up a notch and throw more iron at it (the server we're using was something I rent at $50/mo. anyway).
Even though we're dealing with all the feedback and trying to hold our server together, the response has been extremely positive. I can't say enough how good it feels to simply ship code out into the wild. Now that we've got the basis of the platform up and running we'll be able to expand on top of it and make it a little better each week.
On that note, our first seemingly small improvement is actually something not small at all... we've added a 1-click subscription method. The great thing about it is that it's really easy. Check out our Really Simple Subscription Button Maker. Enter your feed URL, copy the code, and paste it into your site. That's it!
When a user clicks this button it will launch a little popup window containing a short explanation of subscription, a link to download FireAnt if they don't already have it, and a link to launch FireAnt and auto-subscribe to the RSS channel (so its actually 2-clicks).
You can check it out in the sidebar of my blog right here!
More to come, so stay tuned....
Posted by jkinberg at January 30, 2006 8:19 PM
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