http://blog.freescreencast.com News, concepts, updates, etc... Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:47:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have great news! Two announcements: First off, the screencast recording software will have a new name: Castcordia. Second, we are in the works of fully open sourcing the software and to assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation. Educational institutions have embraced freescreencast.com ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2009/02/13/open-sourcing-the-screencast-recorder/ We finally updated some back-end code and now the site should load much faster. It still isn't as fast as we would like, but it is a definite improvement. http://blog.freescreencast.com/2009/02/13/site-speed-up/ Our SSL cert incorrectly expired but it has been renewed. The issues people have been having should go away now. http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/11/01/site-problems-fixed-ssl-certificate/ First, some stats. Since going live, we've had: Over 8000 downloads Over 2500 accounts created 481 Screencasts shared with the world (although quite a few of those are 'tests'). FreeScreencast.com has also been shown at two different educators conferences. By all accounts, we are very proud of how far freescreencast.com has come. We ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/08/28/update-on-the-state-of-things/ This screencast does a great job of pointing out a complete lack of 'help' on the website and asks an important question: does the screencast recording software have a time limit? The short answer is no. The long answer is a bit more complicated, and will involved ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/02/11/of-time-limits-help-and-customer-feeback/ Those of you uploading screencasts in the last few days have been encountering an error. It went unnoticed (by us) for a while but has now been resolved. No data was lost and I manually finished the validation process so the thumbnails and preview images are all working ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/02/08/upload-errors-and-43-characters-later/ Our website host will be physically moving the server cluster that hosts FreeScreencast on Friday, February 8th, starting at 10 pm Pacific time and lasting around 8 hours. Our server cluster will be in a new data center and performance should improve drastically. http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/02/07/free-screencast-domain-will-be-down-for-maintenance/ Moodle has come up more than a few times for me in the past few weeks, and after investigation I discovered there are many screencasts about Moodle, but apparently not much talk of using screencasts in Moodle. So I installed Moodle and embedding from FreeScreencast.com worked right out of ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/02/05/moodle-screencast-embedding/ Here's what we've accomplished since the last status update: Tags are working. You can add tags to your screencast and click-around on tags. View counts - you can now see how many times a screencast has been viewed. That's not page loads - that's views, so each full play through ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2008/01/26/status-update-080126-tags-and-view-counts/ Development continues. The holidays always slow things down a bit, but here's what we're working on right now: Tagging - this is an obvious no brainer for the website that we didn't include on the initial release under the philosophy of release early, release often. Several clients are calling ... http://blog.freescreencast.com/2007/12/12/status-update-dec-11-2007/