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amplus gets new features and new polishes

Written by Mirona Iliescu on 12 Aug 2009

About a week ago, amplus.tv finally started gaining weight, like babies do, and its family sighed with relief. Gone are the newborn wrinkles, here to stay are defining features. Rather than boring you, like parents do, with every little detail that miraculously improved or stabilized (and you have never even noticed), we give you the highlights of the highlights:

1. Login with twitter is smoother, and amplus.tv will remember you forever—as long as you add moving images to your channel at least once every 60 days (and you don’t log out :)

2. The bookmarklet resides now in the website header, and has become much smoother itself (make sure to delete the old one and grab the new version)

3. Every user has an associated user number that is now published in his/ her channel page, to express our excitement with and gratitude for the early explorers of amplus.tv

4. Every bit of moving image, from any channel, was originally spotted by a first user, and now first spotters are visibly credited for their discovery anywhere the video is displayed

5. RSS feed items now include video descriptions, and link back to their amplus.tv channel, crediting the channel maker wherever the feed items travel

Lots of niceness and shininess, no? Hurry up, give it a go, and let us know how we may help you get more out of it. And check out the community channel in the sidebar of this blog :)

amplus.tv is the simplest, cutest tool for building a channel of moving images online. It now recognizes 7 major sources: blip.tv, Daily Motion, Flickr, Hulu, TED, Vimeo and YouTube. To make a channel, login with Twitter and use the shiny, tiny bookmarklet in Firefox. Then take the RSS feed of any channel into readers or miro (lovely FREE player of video feeds), embed any channel on a website (think blog), and send a twitter message about… any channel :)

Cross-posted on Mirona’s professional blog and her personal blog.

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