VideoPress puts WordPress into motion in full High Definition video
This is one of the most exciting WordPress news our team of developers has had this year!
VideoPress is a well thought through offering from Automattic (the company supporting the awesome blogging platform that is WordPress) that allows bloggers on WordPress.com to quickly and easily upload and share HD video content online. It streamlines the create-upload-transcode-embed workflow that bloggers currently endure. I want one!
What particularly excites our design and build team is that the underlying infrastructure of VideoPress has been released under the GPL as an open source framework that, with a little bit of tweaking here and there, will turn any WordPress MU system into a video-streaming mega machine!
We have used video embedding and sharing in projects developed in-house by our design and build team for Stannah Stairlifts and Cooperative Finantial Services blog and it does bring a website to life. You can read more about it here.
Other discussions we have had internally pop to mind: what about the benefits of seeding the video on social hubs like YouTube or Vimeo once the video is online? It would be great if VideoPress seeded the video to these networks automatically bringing more visibility to our content (hmm, sounds like an opportunity!).
We can’t wait to take it out for a spin and use it on our next video-blog.
What do you think!?
Telmo wrote this on 20.05.09 – what do you think?
It's filed in the Blogging, Development, Social media box
