We’re on a roll. Another member – gearboxsoft has helped us code a .NET example with our API. With the PHP example released just two days ago, together with this c# sample, we are only missing a Java example. I’m sure we’ll have sample code in all languages pretty soon.

A big thank you for the guys at Gang of Coders. They helped us with writing a PHP authentication example to our API. Hope this will kick start PHP developers to start using our service.

We were delighted to be part of the Atlassian Startup Space at Web Direction South 09 expo in Sydney last week. We received great interest from the attendees, as they were mostly web developers. It is very exciting and reassuring for us to hear that video transcoding is such a pain for many companies out there.

Web Direction has grown into such a big event, now they are hosting conferences in Canada, Japan. The web community in Australia is a very passionate bunch. Around the conference, there was alot of other web related events as well and they managed to pack it into Web week Definitely should check it out again next year. And since Google Wave was sprouted from Sydney, everyone in the conference got an invite! How cool is that?

We also met other solid Aussie startups. It was great sharing experiences with other startup founders.

I also met a bunch of cool indie startup guys as well. Very useful sharing our experiences and stories.

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Thanks to our new user Sean O’Donnell, we have a new example of authentication with Python. We’ve released a Ruby on Rails plugin since our launch. Here’s another example of our key+signature based authentication in Ruby.

We’re looking for more samples in PHP, .NET and Java. Do let us know if you’ve built any.

www.ankoder.com, an online video technology company, today launched beta trials of its “cloud based” video transcoding platform.

The service provides content publishers, CMS developers, web portals the necessary tools to quickly build, deploy and manage online video platforms.

Ankoder significantly lowers the barriers to entry for website owners with large user base looking to monetize the rapidly growing online video market.

Founder and company director Rex Chung said: “Developing a scalable encoding solution can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, never mind the untold ongoing changes in video codecs and features from new portable devices.”

“Ankoder takes the worries out of development and infrastructure setup. This frees up companies to do what they do best: focus on serving their customers.”

Free trials were opened today ahead of a formal launch of services scheduled in October 09.

With the Ankoder services, content owners and software providers can quickly integrate a powerful encoding platform to their existing services while they enjoy a flexible pay per use system with no license fee.

Ankoder is built on Amazon Web Services. It is designed to handle large and unexpected amount of videos and be able to process them in parallel. It can minimise the waiting time compared to a traditional job queuing system.

ABOUT ANKODER

Ankoder, which means “encoder”, is a cloud based video transcoding platform and product and service of Rorcraft Limited. Media companies, businesses and organizations use Ankoder to transcode videos into multiple formats suitable for web, mobile and other media devices. Founded in 2007, Ankoder is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. For more information, visit http://www.ankoder.com

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