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User Profiles!

All users now have a profile page. This page shows the users playlists and favorites,  profile image and other info like age, location and status.

A great feature is that you can drag the boxes around the page to personalise your page.  We’ve also made it compatible with MySpace profiles, so you can use any of the profile pimping sites to totally customise your page. Just cut and paste the code into the “About Me” box.

Lots of fixes

We’re working hard to keep up with the new new users! Thanks everyone!

A few bugs have been highlighted by all the new playlists.  The most serious related to character encoding which caused some playlists not to work at all, and also affected the embedded player. You’ll be pleased to know this has now been fixed.

Keep coming back to Veewow and you’ll see the great new features we’ve got coming very soon!

new and improved bookmark widget

We’ve improved the usability of the “add to veewow” button.  It is now quicker and easier than ever to build your playlists from within Youtube.

Your playlists are now listed in a table, showing the creation date and number of videos, allowing to change the order of the playlists to find the one you want.  There is also a recent playlist quick link so that you don’t have to scroll through all your playlists if you are adding lots of videos into the same playlist.

A change in the way you create new playlists avoids confusion sometimes leading to lots of playlists with only one video in each playlist.

Safari fixes

We’ve fixed an issue on Safari, which caused the login box to appear too wide - with a large black box on the right half of the dialog window.

New playlist page

We’ve got a brand new playlist page with loads of new features.

  • Brand new embeddable player - you can now cut and paste embed code to put playlists on your blogs, profile pages and websites.   You can show the playlist in 3 different formats - 3D, list or video.
  • New “Related videos” and “people who watched this video also watched…”
  • We’ve put thumbnail images on the videos in the playlist
  • A new section on the playlist showing when it was added, the category, tags and description
  • You can see other playlists by the same user

This is a very brief overview, so take a look and see for yourself!

Tag cloud

We’ve added a tag cloud the homepage. This shows the most popular tags on the playlists

Added support for Google video

You can now add videos from Google video see video.google.com

Facebook bookmarking improved

When bookmarking playlists in Facebook, the URL preview now correctly picks up the image and snippet of text associated with the playlist.

Playlist image, category and description

We’ve now added the option to select which image is used to represent the playlist. You can also add a description to the playlist, and select a category - for example “Music” or “Comedy”.

Add MySpace videos

You can now add MySpace videos to your playlists. Just cut and paste either the embed code or URL from the MySpace video you want to embed.

Now you can combine videos from YouTube and MySpace in the same playlist!