Broadcaster

Right are some quick Broadcaster stats since it’s first launch on February 18th.

• 10, 623 total news stories
• 2542 new stories (many were imported)
• 1022 uploaded news videos
• 1.1 Terabytes of video streamed
• 1001 user submitted comments
• 814 uploaded images
• 337 weather reports filled
• 109 user submitted weather images

Broadcaster version 1.8 is slated to be released this summer, here are a few of the planned enhancements.

1. Podcasting – Allow you to upload various mp3’s (up to five) that are switched together into one file and then presented as a podcast that can be submitted to the iTunes music store.
2. Top News Stories – You can choose to have your top news stories automatically appear on any of your broadcaster pages.
3. Comment Notification – Let you know when new people have commented and they need to be approved.
4. Facebook Connect – Let your views comment with their facebook account, instead of having to put their name, email & site everytime they post a comment.  Also, we can pull that user’s avatar from facebook.

More details to come when 1.8 is released.

Where was a bug discovered when uploading a new video that is not a news, sports or weather feature ad.  This bug has been addressed.

Sorry for any inconvince.