news: November 2008 Archives

Some fun news today from Flixwagon, so let's jump right in:

1. New Mobile Client: We've just released our new Symbian mobile client, which offers substantially improved video and audio quality. Also, depending on what version you're currently running, you may discover these new features we added over the past few months: auto-check for future updates, manually posting on twitter and YouTube, 2-way chat and more. Get the latest version via your mobile browser from m.flixwagon.com/nokia. Also, iPhone users, make sure you're running the most current version by refreshing your sources on Cydia or Installer.

2. Sharing and Notifications: We’ve changed the privacy settings on flixwagon.com so that now you can send an encoded direct link to private flix without requiring your viewers to log in (please note though: this also means that whoever you share your flix with can forward those links to others!) Additional changes include adding the video thumbnail in email notifications. To add your contacts, create groups, and set sharing alerts: log in to flixwagon.com, go to Contacts → My Contacts. Also, check out this video tutorial on how to manage your sharing settings.

3. More  Tutorials: and speaking of tutorials, check out our additional demos on how to change the user details generated via Express Registration, and how to share flix on YouTube and Twitter. And speaking of Twitter, check out the new customizable default twitter message via Settings → Twitter.

4. Folio Mag: Following Conde Nast's Brides.com recent fashion show coverage using Flixwagon, here's what Folio Mag had to say about us (third part of the story): http://www.foliomag.com/2008/technologies-look-2009

In a culmination of MTV's 2008 Choose or Lose campaign with Flixwagon, which started with live coverage on Super Tuesday and continued with the National Conventions, MTV's street team is reporting live from 15 battleground states throughout the Presidential elections day.

The MTV Street Reporters, armed with phones running the Flixwagon application, will cover these historical elections with a focus on what young people are doing and thinking on Election Day.

The live videos will appear in the blogs of the 15 Street teamers here: http://think.mtv.com/Issues/politics/. For example, here is the video page of one of the MTV reporters.

We're happy to play a role in this important day through enabling MTV's mobile broadcasts, and through our 12Seconds/Current TV partnership we announced last week, which allows our users to have their Election Day thoughts shown on Current TV. Have a great Election Day!