Our new features give you unprecedented control over your Flash videos, audio and slideshows, allowing you to add your logo and link directly back to your site. With hosting by DivShare Direct, everyone can create their own viral video site. Check out this example from our friends over at the GnarStar.tv skateboarding video site:
And here’s a podcast from magic-industry news site iTricks.com, fully branded, easily embeddable and linking back to the site.
It’s time for another big upgrade — today we’re proud to launch DivShare Video. Every video you upload to the site will now be converted to a quick, convenient Flash video that you can watch directly from the download page or embed on your own blog, web site or profile. We’ve loaded DivShare Video with a lot of cool features — here’s a quick list:
Download your original video
We’re a file host at heart, so you will always have access to your original video file in addition to your new Flash video.
Huge, high quality vids
We encode your videos at high quality and display them at a width of 560 pixels, making them bigger and badder than most other videos on the web.
The easiest uploads around
There’s no extra work involved in creating your Flash videos — just upload the file to DivShare, and we’ll recognize it as a video that fits our specs. The system will automatically start the conversion, and you’ll get an e-mail (as well as see it on the download page) when it’s done!
Anonymous uploads, 200 MB file size, and all the DivShare standards
Your videos will enjoy the same freedoms as all your other DivShare files — there’s no video time limit, and you can upload any source video up to 200 MB in size. And, of course, you can upload and create a Flash video without even registering for an account.
We’ll go into more detail about converting your current vids and fill you in on a few things we’re still working on during this weekend’s Beta test. But first, get started by checking out this sample vid:
We always love to see DivShare put to great use at web sites and media outlets around the world. Some of our friends from a past life in the newspaper industry just linked us to the Houston Chronicle’s Baseball blog, which uses the DivShare MP3 player to post interviews. Rock on!
Our friends over at iTricks, a blog/podcast/news organization that covers the magic industry, are putting DivShare to work in one of our favorite ways yet. Their latest contests asks users to send in an audio description of their magic tricks gone wrong, and points them right to DivShare to host and share the MP3s.
And, of course, it works like a charm :). Here’s one of the first of several submissions users have posted through DivShare — a little weird, but we’ll allow it. Thanks to the iTricks for spreading the good word — and if you have any more cool DivShare sightings or know of a site that’s using DivShare to provide a better experience for its visitors, hit us up in the comments.
