Published by Steve Litchfield at 7:16 UTC, September 18th 2008
Nokia's Share on Ovi team has been busy and there's a whole new Share home page ("simpler, less cluttered, easier to navigate"), plus an upgrade to the back end to deliver higher quality mobile video, for when viewing Share-hosted videos out and about. See below for the Share team's announcement.
Here's an example of the new video. The player controls have been tweaked, but more significantly videos start playing back more quickly and are of a higher quality.
Here is an extract from the Share on Ovi Blog:
Making Share more personal
Share on Ovi has always been about sharing pictures and videos with your friends, family, or the world. Now we’ve made some changes to Share to make it an even more personal experience - connecting you with your media and the latest additions from your contacts right off the bat. The new home page is simpler, less cluttered, and easier to navigate – and it gets you to what you care about the most right away.
Making Share simple to use
Creating channels to organize and share your media just got a lot simpler, and our upload page is now a lot easier to use. All of the power and detail is still there if you want it, but it’s now much more straight forward to just name a new channel, set it to public or private, and get your media into it quickly so that you can share it with your world.
Better, faster, and more reliable video
We’ve changed the way we handle videos so that they get posted faster and look even better than before. The new m4v format that we’re using for mobile video is a big step up in quality, and our new transcoding technology can handle even more file types so that most videos can be played back in the browser window.
Not only does this improve your new videos, but we’re going to go back to the beginning and upgrade all of the videos that have ever been posted. It may take us a few days, but we’ll get them all.
Looks good to me. Original post.
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