iDesktop.tv featured in Webuser

Webuser, the UKs best selling internet magazine, has featured iDesktop.tv in its “Best new websites section”. Webuser gave iDesktop.tv 4 out of 5 stars. It mentioned the download functionality and the viewing and sharing functions. The reviewer also wrote about the interface, stating “the interface is designed to resemble a desktop application, so it’s very simple to use, and can be customised with different themes”.

The review is on page 17 of the current issue (issue 180).

Yahoo and Pocket-lint Reviews

Many thanks go to Ian Hughes over at Pocet-lint.co.uk, a site specialising in technology and gadget reviews. iDesktop.tv was featured as their site of the day on 28/01/08. Amongst the comments made were “this one’s different, simply due to its functionality” and “Why can’t all sites be like this…?”. Thanks also to Yahoo UK News, for featuring this review on their site, and also naming it as their site of the day.

Go here for the review on Pocket-lint:

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Here’s the review on Yahoo:

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More reviews on iDesktop.tv

iDesktop.tv has some more new reviews from reliable weblogs dedicated to new Web 2.0 startups. We’ve received high valuations from Torley, European Startups, Killer Startups and other internet communities.

Many thanks to you guys from the iDesktop.tv team!

Here you can see the reviews.

iDesktop gets a small update

After many requests from our users, we’ve added search tags to the URLs of iDesktop. Every time you make a search the URL in the web address bar will change as the search tag will be added to it. This new feature will allow you to navigate through different searches you’ve entered using the Back and Forward buttons of your browser. You will also be able to copy and send a link to a particular search results, or even bookmark this particular search.

With this small but significant update we aim to enrich your experience with iDesktop by giving you more flexibility and convenience!

A review for iDesktop.tv by Ajaxian!

Ajaxian is one of the first blogs made in Ajax. The blog offers daily updates, insightful commentary and coverage of Ajax development around the world. We are very pleased and thankful for the positive review for iDesktop they posted.

The team of iDesktop.tv wishes you all happiness, success and joy for 2008!

Here is a part of the review by Ajaxian:

“iDesktop is an Ajax application that allows you to search and view YouTube videos.

The viewer uses a stripped down Prototype, and a whole bunch of script to give you sliders that automatically change the layout to allow more or less content on the screen, menus, pagination, inline popups, and a lot more.”

Here is a link to the whole review!

Vote for iDesktop.tv on the Open Web Awards!

iDesktop was nominated for the Mashable Open Web Awards. This is a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The Open Web Awards are the first ever online, open collaboration awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing Web 2.0. iDesktop.tv was nominated in the category “Applications and Widgets”.

The First Voting Round will be from December 6^th to December 16^th. The top three sites in each category will proceed to the final round starting December 17^th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco on January 10^th, 2008.

We will need all the help from you, so don’t hesitate to give us your feedback and vote. Thank you all in advance!

VOTE HERE

iDesktop review summaries

We’d like to thank the guys at Mashable, the major social networking site, for their kind review at the beginning of the re-launch. They were impressed by all the great new features we‘ve added to the site. Read the review here.

Thanks to Kristen for checking out the site.

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Excellent review about iDesktop.tv from TechCrunch UK!

TechCrunch - a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies, published a great review about iDesktop.tv in their blog. They are impressed by our slick interface and rich functionality.

The comments on the article are also very flattering. iDesktop.tv Team wants to thank TechCrunch for the incredible article. We are extremely happy that all our work has been appreciated from you and your readers.

Check out the whole review here

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YouTube Desktop is NOW iDesktop.tv

YouTube Desktop has a new name – iDesktop.tv! The relaunch of the website comes not only with a new name but with plenty of cool new features that will make your browsing and downloading videos even more fun!

The only purpose of our team is to bring satisfaction to all our users and that’s why we tried to fulfil all your wishes in this new version of our website. iDesktop.tv offers you the same design and possibilities as YouTube Desktop but we added many more features that will bring you an even more pleasant experience.

With iDesktop.tv you can make a list of your favourite videos and browse them easily any time you want. When you download a video, you can choose from a great variety of formats to convert it to – AVI, MP4, 3GP, 3GP2, MOV, WMV, FLV, EXE or ZIP. These are a lot more than before and now you have the chance to play the downloaded video with almost any player on your PC, mobile phone, iPhone or iPod without using any other convert program.

The new iDesktop.tv offers you the opportunity to import information from your YouTube user account. For example, you can import your saved playlists or favourite videos. With iDesktop.tv you also have a bigger choice of themes and a variety of new settings.

In the new version of our website we added a video comments list and information about the uploader. You can see other videos from this user or see his favourite ones. Your searching for videos has also been improved in iDesktop.tv as you can sort your results by relevance, date, rating or view count.

Our player also has some new features. You can open a player in a new browser window and you can maximize it. We implemented a choice of four different aspect ratios for the videos as well.

We’re pretty sure that with all these new possibilities iDesktop.tv will become your new favourite web application for watching, downloading and browsing videos!

4200+ BETA users THANK YOU

Yes you’ve read it correctly. From an initial offering of 100 invites, we’ve extended the beta to well over 4000 users. That’s pretty amazing in a short amount of time. We must have a good thing!

Every day we are getting more and more requests, so please keep on coming. If you feel you can help, then please sign up for the beta.

Not only this but the FEEDBACK and REVIEWS has been totally outstanding. All features requests and bug reports have been taken seriously and we’ve already acted on them. You will see all and much more on the next release.

All this would not have been possible without YOU, guys. So we would just like to THANK everyone of you for making the ride a cosy one.

We look forward to your future support.

Enjoy, put your seat belts on and watch this space…