Vid.ly, Yet Another Video Hosting Service, Launches Today

Encoding.com has been around for the past several years, and they have yet another turnkey video encoding service called quick catchingly, Vid.ly. The product, which has been in beta since February, was announced today and so far has had more than five million video views already.

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The focus on the service is flexibility. They provide customizable output formats with variable bit rates to suit both mobile and desktop users, premium access to world-class content delivery networks, and a number of other features.

Many of their competitor video hosting sites use the Encoding.com site themselves for their needs, so the announcement is somewhat ironic. They fill the gap in between YouTube/Vimeo at the low and nearly free end and Brightcove/Kaltura at the higher end. Vid.ly is designed mostly for smaller video producers that don't want to spend a lot of money but also don't have lots of technical expertise.

The published pricing schedule is very complex and somewhat akin to Amazon's Web Services where the variables include the number of videos posted, their size and the number of views per month.

There is a free version, where you can upload one video at a time and get a shortened URL that you can use to link to it, similar to what YouTube et al. does. With Vid.ly Pro, you will have access to analytics (coming soon), ability to control output renditions, CDN choice (Akamai and CloudFront, with more coming later), their own APIs and player customization. Even with the free account, you have unlimited video source file size, unlike some of the other video hosting providers.

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Another Reason You Don't Need To Be Worried About Apple's Download Only Lion OS (AAPL)

If you have concerns about Lion being download-only, you shouldn't.

Apple has designed a system called "Internet Recovery" that will download and install OS X Lion even if your hard drive fails or somehow gets wiped. From Apple's site:

[Internet Recovery] downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac Mini and MacBook Air.

If you're absolutely paranoid and want a hard copy of Lion, Apple will sell it to you on a USB drive for $70.

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How To Prevent Another Spam Attack From Google+ (GOOG)

Google's servers for Google+ ran out of space this weekend, causing users to be bombarded with repeated notifications e-mails.

By default, Google+ will e-mail you when there's activity on you account, just like Facebook does. Even when everything is working fine, that can still get annoying if you're a popular person on the young social network.

Here's how to turn e-mail alerts off:

• Click the "Options" gear symbol on the upper right corner of your screen. Select "Google+ Settings."

• Click the "Google+ tab" and scroll down to the "Receive Notifications" section.

• Uncheck the activities you don't want to receive notifications for. (We suggest unchecking all of them to avoid another spamming incident.)

Here's a screenshot of the notifications settings:

 

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Sony Has ANOTHER Big Security Problem (SNE)

Sony just can't get the hang of this security disclosure thing.

The company took Sony Online Entertainment down last night because of a problem discovered while Sony investigated last week's breach of the PlayStation Network.

In a note on the SOE Web site, the company promised to provide more information on Monday. But the day is almost done in most of the world and there's still no more word about what happened and what user data -- if any -- may have been stolen.

Sony Online Entertainment is the home for a bunch of online PC games, including Everquest, which claims more than 400,000 players.

Bloomberg cites a Nikkei news report saying that more than 12,000 credit card numbers may have been stolen in a second attack unrelated to last week's breach.

It took almost a week for Sony executives to explain and apologize for the PlayStation Network breach. The company admitted that hackers may have stolen personal information from the 77 million people using the service.

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