Coco + VideofyMe = True

April 22, 2012

Yesterday something happened to our office. Around 7 PM it had turned into a sparkling, colorful, happy playground for adults. Minutes after the building was filled with bloggers, marketing people, journalists and a few well known faces here in Sweden. They were all waiting for one very special woman, with a very special voice and a whole lot of charisma – Coco! 

She performed two songs that features production work from Marc Jameson, whose credits include Christina Aguilera, Madonna and Bon Jovi to name a few. The audience was ecstatic and I couldn’t see one single face not smiling during the whole performance. Do I have to say the guests kept smiling when they found out there we’re three big, colorful cakes saying “Watch Your Bitch” to enjoy afterwards?

It was such a happy moment and now it’s a very proud moment to give you the opportunity to see Coco’s official music video for her new single “Watch Your Bitch” on VideofyMe.

ENJOY! :)

 

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Join our team!

April 20, 2012

LISTEN CLOSELY! 

We are looking for driven developers who want to be a part of building a social video service, where your thoughts are enormously important.

About our development team

We are building a team of young talents where we want to put the developer in focus. We are looking for driven developers who want to be a part of creating a fun video service. We currently have 7 developers and we are now looking to expand our development team. We are looking for people who want to be a part of the core team and be the driving part of creating solutions for difficult technical problems. We believe in a culture that benefits the developer, where you have the opportunity to flex and work from home. We are looking for developers that are driven and dedicated enough to do a weekend hack with the rest of the team or work late to reach a goal. For this, we will reward you with a good salary and a great and fun working environment. We sit in a inspiring office in Tullhus 3 on Skeppsbrokajen in Gamla Stan (Stockholm) together with the startup Tripl.

Here’s our stack:

  • Ruby/Rails
  • Sinatra/Padrino
  • Rspec & Cucumber
  • Redis
  • Hadoop
  • MySQL
  • MongoDBImage explaining social sharingt

About the job

We are looking for talented developers who have worked with and build social media tools. We want you to have a good understanding of how users think and what they want to achieve. You should know what the important triggers in social media are, and what it is which makes people use them. You want to work with business logic and like to design your own systems. You will be working with the business logic of our frontend and working closely with our mobile app developers, therefore it is a plus if you have worked with RESTful APIs before. If you have built social tools such as systems which allow users to follow one another, and to comment and ‘like’ things, this is a great plus.

About You

Requirements

  • You have +2 years of programming experience
  • You have used SQL
  • You have worked with social media tools before as a full time job or hobby.

Desirable, but not required

  • NoSQL knowledge (Hadoop / MongoDB / Redis)
  • Experience with Ruby
  • Built RESTful APIs
Show us what you got! Send your resume to patrick@videofy.me  
Peace, love and developing!
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Video Of The Day

April 10, 2012

Howdy ya’ll!

Do you want your videos to get that extra attention that they deserve? Listen closely.

Every day from now on we will announce one of you guys videos the “Video of the Day” and share it on our Facebook page and to our Twitter. Tweet us your video by naming @videofyme with the hashtag #VideoOfTheDay. Not a member of the twitter family? Publish your video on our Facebook page and name the post “Video of the Day”, or do it the old fashioned way; send your video to annasara@videofy.me :-)

Jinna of Grease and Glamour took us on a tour in her closet! What will you show us that we together can share to the world? Come on and rock our world! 

 

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Search for VideofyMe videos

February 24, 2012

Search

Search is a much requested feature from our users and now we have added a simple google website search to www.videofy.me while we hack on a proper search function. It isn’t beautiful but it works and you will be able to find some interesting videos that way. Let us know what you want to see in the next version of video search.

Try one of these searches:
http://www.videofy.me/search?q=fashion
http://www.videofy.me/search?q=garden
http://www.videofy.me/search?q=apple
http://www.videofy.me/search?q=stockholm

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Watch videos in style with new video pages

February 10, 2012

We have updated our video pages on VideofyMe (sorry, no search yet!) to present your fantastic videos in a better way and hopefully also increase your video views.

We have a new Popular videos page reachable from the header of the website at all times and also new Flipboard style video pages. Visit your video page and let us know what you think!

Here are a sample of awesome video pages:

videofy.me/saniaclaus/

videofy.me/foki

videofy.me/bloggshop

videofy.me/guitarfiero

videofy.me/xataka

videofy.me/mywickedvideos

Do you have an impressive page of videos? Send us the link and we might feature you in the future on our blog or newsletter.

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I SPY

February 7, 2012

I spy, with my little eye som great Do It Yourself-videos in the near future!
After a “slight” detour, we finally got to meet Jenni Radosevich that runs the blog I SPY DIY . She can transform a wire and a chain to a heartbeat necklace for example, who would ever think of something like that? This girl is a creative maniac and we absolutely love it!

After our severe cross-examination about her I feel like I have a PHD in statistics. I bet I will be headhunted by Harvard and Yale after this summary about who this fantastic woman is. Am I taking it to far? I’ll let you decide.

This is what we call a happy ending! You can watch the video we recorded down below!

See what else we’re doing here!

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VideofyMe in the big apple

February 7, 2012

Right now a part of our VideofyMe crew is in NYC to attend the IFB conference, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and BlogLovin’ awards. We’re excited to meet some of our users and partners. We’ll keep you updated on what we’re doing and who we’re meeting. Click here for the inside scoop, scroll down to see our pretty faces!

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Updated video player on VideofyMe

January 20, 2012

We have updated the VideofyMe video player and we think its beautiful. Here is what’s new:

  • New updated design!
  • Bug fixes.
  • New and improved end menu.
  • HQ button.
  • New link to the video and your other videos on videofy.me.
  • We also have prepared a few nice things to give you the ability to customize the player more that will be released soon.

What do you think about the new player? Let us know in the comments below.

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Goodbye 2011. Hello 2012!

January 5, 2012

A lot of things happened with VideofyMe 2011, what will 2012 bring?

2011 is over and when we look back at the year that has passed, there’s a lot of great things that have happened. Here’s a short list of the major things happening at VideofyMe 2011:

  • Release of new and much improved website.
  • One click publishing of videos to Facebook, Twitter and your blog.
  • Release of HTML5 video player to play your videos on iPhone and iPads.
  • A completly new iPhone app with lots of improvements.
  • A new Android app with much needed improvements.
  • An increase in traffic going from about 100,000 video views per day in Sweden to more than 1,5 million video views world wide!
  • We closed two financing rounds and welcomed new investors from Germany and Sweden.
  • We welcomed a lot of new bloggers and partner companies to VideofyMe. Including Weblogs SL, Bloggersdelight, Devote.se, Nöjesguiden, Moore.se, Spotlife, Blogg.se and TV4.se.
  • We also welcomed some new VideofyMe co workers. Patrik Frisk, Damien Timewell and Anna-Sara Nilsson.
  • We have payed over 400,000 EUR to our users over the year.

We are really looking forward to this year and hope to write an even longer and more impressive summary about this year in 2013.

Happy new year from The VideofyMe Team!

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Nov 29 is pay a blogger day

November 24, 2011

On November 29, Pay a blogger! (Off course VideofyMe pay bloggers every month of the year.)

Our friends at Flattr have come up with this great idea:

Bloggers are seldom after just fame and fortune. But they do give up an awful lot of their spare time to make their readers smarter, happier or simply more efficient in killing time. Many fans are very good at reciprocating by spreading the word, commenting, buying bloggers’ wares or even making donations. But it’s a tiny drop in the ocean compared to what we spend on ad-filled magazines or tips to waiters that are unfriendly if not rude. So what if ALL of us gave something back to bloggers, even for just one day. Buy their T-shirt, the book with affiliate links or make a donation. They’ve sure deserved it.

To celebrate bloggers everywhere Nov 29th is proclaimed to be Pay a blogger day.

Off course here at VideofyMe we pay bloggers every month not just in November! Show your support by watching a couple of VideofyMe videos and if you are a blogger make a video to celebrate this day!

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