ReviewSpace Development Blog
A quick update
February 8th, 2010 by Leon
We’d like to update you on our progress with ReviewSpace and share some exciting news with you.
Beta Phase & Pricing
First we’d like to thank you all for helping us during our beta phase. Your feedback has helped us diagnose and improve both the product and our processes.
Our beta phase is due to end on 28th February 2010. We’d love you to continue trying things out and giving us feedback, therefore we’d like to offer our current beta user a 3 month free trial starting on 1st March 2010. During this trial you’ll keep the same 10GB of storage space and a 25GB monthly data transfer limit.
We’ve now finalised our pricing and packages for launch, which you can find on our website http://www.thisisreviewspace.com/microsite/prices
Free iPhone App
Apple have now approved the ReviewSpace iPhone App which can be downloaded from the App Store in iTunes. ReviewSpace Touch makes it possible to be fully mobile with your projects. As long as you have a 3G or Wi-Fi signal you can view, read and watch your files while on the go. You can learn more about this on our website http://www.thisisreviewspace.com/microsite/iphone
Thanks again for your support, we hope you’ll stick around as we continue to develop ReviewSpace.
Our brand new iPhone app
February 2nd, 2010 by Leon
Late last night Apple approved our long awaited native iPhone (and now iPad) application.
It’s fair to say we’re more than a little bit thrilled to be able to announce this, especially with all of the news surrounding Flash and Apple mobile devices.
We decided to create a native app so that you could easily take your projects and files with you when you are out and about. One type of file however that posed an issue was video. The iPhone is pretty good at reading the rest of the files that we allow on ReviewSpace. When we first started developing ReviewSpace we were using the FLV format for video. (Flash’s very own video format). This was great, file sizes were small and quality was good, plus we could ensure that around 97% of browsers (computer based browsers that is) could view it. However the only way to play the FLV was to use a Flash based video player. This is great if you have Flash, but what if you don’t. Fortunately Flash supports playback of the h264 format along with Quicktime, both on a Mac and on an iPhone (and now iPad). Perfect, we made some changes to our encoder and now convert any video that is uploaded to a format that is both playable in the web based Flash player, and now our native application. This solved a lot of headaches for us. Another great reason for choosing h264 is that it can be directly outputted from video creation software such as Final Cut Pro, meaning that video production companies can export and upload in the fewest steps possible, helping to speed up their process of getting a file to a client.
So back to the application. You can read more about it’s features over on it’s very own microsite, within a microsite here http://www.thisisreviewspace.com/microsite/iphone . In order to use it you will need to have an account, and in order to get an account you will need to be invited into a project by another ReviewSpace user, or create your own instance of ReviewSpace by requesting a invitation from here http://www.thisisreviewspace.com/microsite/invite . All you then need is the instance name (the bit directly after http://www.thisisreviewspace.com/. For example if you use http://www.thisisreviewspace.com/leon to log in, then your instance name is leon), your email address and password.
We believe we have created a really great first version, for which to add more features in the future (as of yet we don’t have a road map as our main priority is getting ReviewSpace fully finished).
Please leave a comment with your thoughts on the app and ReviewSpace in general – good or bad we genuinely love to hear them (ok love maybe taking it a little too far).
You can download the app from iTunes here .
Welcome to our blog
February 1st, 2010 by Leon
A quick note to welcome you to our new blog. We’ll update this as and when to let you know about new features, changes (if any) to the service and all things ReviewSpace.
Don’t forget – you can also find us on Twitter at @review_space, via email on hello@thisisreviewspace.com or over on our Get Satisfaction page
ReviewSpace is on the ‘HOT 100’ list for 2010
February 1st, 2010 by Mandy
The Web Designer magazine has published 100 things that are set to get hot over the coming year – and ReviewSpace was one of them!
ReviewSpace Press Releases
January 29th, 2010 by Leon
As January draws to an end, the iMedia/Marketing team at Gas Street Works are preparing for the launch of the ReviewSpace campaign. The launch officially kicks off February 12th but you can take a look at our press releases here – The Drum, Behind the Spin,
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