17 Mar, 2008
We have updated the plugin requirements to the current version of flash. For most of you who keep your flash plugin up-to-date, you won’t notice anything different. For people who are using version older than 9,0,115,0 … you will be required to update it before you can continuing viewing the videos on this site.
We are also changing the WMP plugin with a newer Silverlight version. The main reason is that the silverlight version works better cross platform (Firefox, Safari … etc) while the WMP plugin only works well with Internet Explorer.
All these updates are minors, but required for your continuation of your enjoyment of the site. If you can’t update your flash plugin, just try unnstill the old version first before installing the new one.
On a side note, we decided to temporary suspend the “purchase” option. A few times a week, we get questions concerning the purchasing of the original video sources. Even though we don’t really sell anything, we decided to look for sources for you. Unfortunately, we haven’t find any reliable ones yet. Vnnmall was one of the few that have an affiliate option. However, even after sending them a message from the contact form and emailing them directly, they don’t reply. If this is how they do business with affiliates and customers, then it’s not worth it. If anyone find a good, reliable source that you have bought from before … let us know. Other interested viewers will appreciate it.
1 Mar, 2008
Stage6, one of the most popular, high quality, sharing sites had permanently shut down its services as of 2/28/2008. The reason behind it? Well, there were lots of reasons. But the main reason is being … too much egos flew around to fit them all in a single site. Hey, you can’t keep a project moving forward when your key players stood up and leave, can you? With the close down of Stage6, their userbase of about 17.4 million visitors/month went up in smoke as well.
To prove that stupidity is still alive and well with the board of execs, they are now forwarding visitors to Veoh. They probably made some money for the deal, but still … what the heck? If Google shuts down, I doubt that they will forward their users to Microsoft. People liked Stage6 because they don’t have (much) restrictions, and now you forwarding them to a site that use 5min previews as standard and application that constantly crashes users’ computer? (To be fair, the divx plugin also crashes user computer, too … but you can download the videos without the need of an external app like Veoh’s). With the shutdown of stage6, the 700+ (current known count) video sharing sites can now start fighting over that piece of the pie. On a related note … crunchyroll, another popular everything-asian site, just raised $4million in a round of financing led by Venrock Associates. It’s not quite attractive as the buyout of Youtube (for $1.6billion by Google), but hey … its piece of the pie is getting bigger.
