Eyejot Introduces More New Features

Eyejot has released new features today that further enhances and extends the functionality of our popular video mail platform.

Address Book Editing
Straight from the what took them so long department... We've just made it so you can edit your existing address book entries! You can change the first and last names of anyone in your address book.

SMS Alerts
We've also enabled SMS alerts for our PRO and PRO Plus members. Now they can get alerted on their mobile phones moments after receiving a new Eyejot. And, users with phones capable of displaying video (like an iPhone, Blackberry Curve/Pearl, Google G1, Windows Mobile device, etc.) will be able to watch their Eyejot messages directly on their phones! Jeff Turner posted an example of using both these  feature.

Time Zone Support
Since our platform was used by people in 129 different countries this month we  thought it was about time we supported local time zones. So, now you can tell Eyejot which time zone you're in and we'll adjust all our dates and times to match.

PayPal Support
We receive emails from time to time from our users asking for PayPal support. So, we've added PayPal as a secondary payment gateway that you can use for upgrading your account to PRO or PRO Plus.

We've got even more surprises planned for November. Stay tuned! If you're in the United States, Happy Halloween and don't forget to vote!

Enhancements to attachments feature made

We've  enhanced the attachment feature. Now, messages that are viewed directly from your video inbox will display their attached documents and links. This functionality was always present when viewing individual messages from your web-browser (after clicking a notification message link) but was missing, until now, in the inbox interface.

The attachment feature is proving to be one of the most popular aspects of the platform for people using Eyejot for professional purposes.

New contact and privacy features

We've just deployed an important new personalization and privacy feature on Eyejot that allows you to include links that will help your recipients reach you through services such as AOL, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Skype, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

The privacy change we've made is that we're now hiding your email address on the message viewing and user pages. Your email address has been replaced with a link to a pop-up email form. Recipients and visitors will still be able to contact you, but they won't be exposed to your personal email address on these pages.

Introducing Eyejot Document Attachments

Eyejot has just released a new feature allowing its PRO Plus users to attach and send documents from their computers with video messages. It's called Eyejot Document Attachments.

Imagine the scenario of a support engineer needing to send an instructional document to a client to help them solve an important technical issue. Now, with Eyejot Document Attachments, they can create a  video message explaining what they're sending, which sections to examine in detail, and then, attach the actual document to their message!

We've created a screencast of how to add documents to Eyejot video messages. You can watch it via our attachments help page. As noted, this feature requires PRO Plus. You can learn about our different versions here.

New Tracking Feature

Imagine that you've just spent time thinking about and then composing a great introductory video message to someone. Now what? Did they get it? What did they think? Up until now, you really had no way to know, for sure, whether they had viewed your video message. Now, PRO Plus users of Eyejot can get detailed view status information for any message they've sent. And, it's easy to use.

If you're a PRO Plus member, all you have to do is select a message from your sent folder and press the link labeled view status that appears in the lower right-hand corner. It's underneath the video play window. A pop-up window will appear and show you who opened and viewed your message, and when.

Soon we'll be providing email alerts that give you the same information so you can follow-up to your video messages without even visiting the Eyejot site. If you're not already a PRO Plus member, you can easily upgrade here!

Eyejot's new Affiliate Program

For a long time now Eyejot users have been asking for us to implement an affiliate program. Well, we've answered those requests and have deployed one. We strived to make participation as simple as possible while, at the same time, making it attractive from a commission standpoint. If you're logged into the platform you can learn about it through a link at the bottom of every page. Naturally, if you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to share them with us through our contact page.

Eyejot PRO Plus Now Available

Today we have released our new PRO Plus package! Priced at $99.95/year, the new PRO Plus version allows users to brand several Eyejot notification elements with their own logos and color schemes. A more complete description can be found on our feature page for PRO Plus.

Public Video Message Viewer

We've added a new feature to Eyejot to make sharing videos with your friends and blog visitors easier. It's called our public viewer feature. There are two parts. The first is a new widget called pubviewer. You can place it on any web page or blog with just two lines of Javascript. We'll soon integrate it with the Widgetbox service to make that step even easier. For now, just follow the instructions here.

The second part is a new checkbox that appears in your message viewer window, next to the video inbox list. Whenever there's a message you'd like to appear publicly, through the new pubviewer widget, just mark the checkbox.

Announcing Eyejot PRO

Today we're happy to be announcing Eyejot PRO. It's Eyejot with some great new features. The first is one that lots of people have been asking for: extended recording times. Now, with Eyejot PRO, you can record videos up to five (5) minutes in length.

Another fantastic new feature is the ability to upload and send pre-recorded video. It's incredibly easy to do and Eyejot will accept almost any video format you throw at it. Have a cute video of a new baby, a captured moment on vacation or some special you've recorded and want to share? Eyejot is the very best way to do that. We've even got a screen cast to show you. View it here.

Through the end of this year, Eyejot PRO is available for only $14.95 per year. That's half off our regular price. Signing up is easy. Just create an account, log in and then click on the Upgrade button!

Eyejot Mobile for the iPhone

We've built a preview page showing our interface for the new Apple iPhone, which is due to be released to the public on June 29th. As you'll learn by visiting our preview page, we don't know, for sure, whether our Eyejot Mobile UI will work on the real iPhone. There have been conflicting reports. Some have suggested that embedded video (on a web page) might not be possible. But, we're hopeful that's not the case and that embedded Quicktime will be allowed. We'll certainly know in a few days.

However, whether or not our preview works on the actual iPhone, Eyejot Mobile will be compatible with a number of other devices and mobile platforms and support not only message viewing and inbox management, but also recording!

We also want to thank David Cann who created several iPhone protoype tools and started getting seriously thinking about building cool iPhone HTML-based apps.