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10:28 AM 10/09/2007
Boulder, Colorado - ClickCaster Inc., a provider of worldclass IPTV & Media Middleware Platforms announces its support in EFCO, the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. The company has pledged to donate one percent of its overall equity to EFCO, a program targeted at angel and VC backed companies based in Colorado. The organization is focused on creating an endowment that let's young companies, through the gift of their equity, give back to the communities we live and work in. "We learned about EFCO several months ago and decided on the spot to participate as soon as it made sense" says ClicKCasters CEO, Scott Converse. "Being part of the local community and giving back to the different institutions, organizations and entities that make Colorado such a great place to start a company is something every young company should consider doing". ClickCaster is joining a growing group of Colorado based early stage companies in helping to build a permanent endowment to provide community grants for arts, civic involvement, education, the environment, and health and human services. Upon a liquidity event, the cash or stock that has been given by participating companies will be distributed to the appropriate Community Foundations.About ClickCaster Inc.ClickCaster Inc. was incorporated in Sept. of 2006. ClickCaster's technology has matured into a premier media middleware platforms with the ability to handle virtually any media type available today. With an emphasis on IPTV, ClickCaster and its partners provide server and client device products and services to meet the most demanding needs of our customers. ClickCaster was founded by Scott Converse. He brings his expertise from companies such as Apple Computer, Paramount Pictures, Motorola and MCI to create the best media delivery platform products in our targeted markets available today. www.clickcaster.com/aboutAbout Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado: Four companies - Tendril, Rally Software, Collective Intellect and Me.dium - are the founding grantors for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. The founding trustees are Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Kyle Lefkoff (Boulder Ventures), Tim Connor (Sequel Venture Partners), Ryan Martens (Rally Software), Bill Roberts (Hogan & Hartson), and Michael Platt (Cooley Godward Kronish). In addition, the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado has formed an alliance with the Entrepreneurs Foundation, an organization formed in 1988 with affiliates in Silicon Valley, Austin, Southern California, New England, Dallas, Portland, Atlanta, Hawaii and Israel. www.efcolorado.orgContact: Info@clickcaster.com1690 30th StreetBoulder, CO 80301303-785-1751
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1:16 PM 07/31/2007
Check out how easy it is to publish media, sell your posts, and Customize your Channel. Watch this short screencast.
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4:01 PM 07/16/2007
Watch, Listen, and Vote! Our explore section got an overhaul. Find New and Popular channels on ClickCaster, watch, and vote for your favorites without ever leaving the page. Browse by tags, or use our enhanced search to find exactly what you're looking for. Don't just promote on ClickCaster, Make some cash! Selling is back. Set a price for your posts on our system and we'll do a revenue share of 50/50 with you. Even track who's buying in Stats > Seller Details. Just fill out the form under Settings > Sell, or learn more here.Banana, Kanji, Hotpants?Our template directory just keeps growing. We're up to 33 funky templates to choose from. Try 'em out under the new and improved Customize. On the 1st, we limited existing free users accounts. If you are running low on bandwidth or storage, please check out one of our modestly priced packages with unlimited bandwidth!Also, for those of you who do not wish to receive email updates from us, you can opt out under settings here.
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5:28 PM 06/15/2007
New signups and existing free accounts receive 125MB of Storage and 10GB of transfer a month with some features limited.
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3:03 PM 06/14/2007
New Features! Want to find out where you're audience is? View them using google maps in our new and improved Geolocation. Click on Stats and try it for free on your account today only! Managing your media is now faster and easier. Add or upload straight from a new post. You can even sort by video, audio, images and miscellaneous files. Atlantis, Quill, Techno... We've added 7 funky new templates. Click on Edit under Channel to check em out.
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2:21 PM 06/05/2007
ClickCaster now offers a new feature to paying customers which allows you to take any RSS feed on the Web and import it into your account.  ClickCaster will then generate a new ClickCaster Channel with its own RSS feed.What can you use a ClickCaster channel for?  Here are some potential uses:Create a web page for your existing media RSS feed.  Make audio and videos easily browseable from a www.clickcaster.com/yourchannel address.Automatically generate thumbnails for videos in your RSS feed.  Thumbnails make your content easier to browse and more accessible.Automatically insert audio players into your RSS feed.  This means regardless of what RSS aggregator your listeners are using, they'll be able to play your episodes.Track statistics for your RSS feed.Check out an example of a customized remote feed.
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11:10 AM 06/05/2007
On June 1st, someone found a minor security flaw in our mailing list. They sent out about 84 thousand spam emails from a ClickCaster address.Here's what the mail looked like: "From: Regions Bank To: Announce-dist Sent: Friday, 1 June, 2007 1:05:52 PM Subject: Secure confirmation! Dear business client of *Regions Bank*: The Regions Customer Service requests you to complete the Regions InterAct Confirmation Form. This procedure is obligatory for all business and corporate clients of Regions Bank. Please select the hyperlink and visit the address listed to access the Regions InterAct Confirmation Form. " The address that orginated this attack on us, and our customers is 20129250180.user.veloxzone.com.br. or 201.29.250.180 and the abuse contact for that ip address is abuse@telemar.net.br We sincerely apologize that we had an email address that was vulnerable to this sort of abuse, but we also would like to reassure you that no data of yours was compromised. The attacker sent an email to an address on our server, which then reprocessed the attack and sent it to our customers.  Again, the attacker never saw a customer email address. We have removed the email address in question to ensure that this will not happen again.
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5:11 PM 06/04/2007
Due to user outcry, we will continue to offer FREE accounts on ClickCaster! Starting June 15th, sign in and get 125MB of Storage and 10GB of transfer a month with some features limited. Thanks for helping us build such a great site and don't hesitate to let us know how we can best serve your business!
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5:09 PM 05/11/2007
For those of you wondering where our embeddable players went, good news!  You can find all the embedded players you've been asking us for under the "Embed" tab.We've launched a new video player and will be updating the other players in the near future, so stay tuned.
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7:07 PM 05/10/2007
As you all now know, we've changed ClickCaster fairly dramatically to better fit what we believe our customers need.  The old version of ClickCaster was a collection of features and functions that organically grew over time.  Some of the features everyone used; some things, almost no one touched. What we've done is cull out the rarely used stuff and beefed up the heavily used portions of the site into a more focused service aimed at serious audio, video and file distribution via RSS. For a full description of the changes, check out the ClickCaster Wiki at: http://faq.clickcaster.com/index.php/Legacy_Accountsor view a walkthrough of the new system: The biggest change for some of you will be paying for your accounts.  You can see the various level of service and their cost here: http://www.clickcaster.com/about/more_info In a nutshell, there are 4 plans from $4.99 to $29.99 a month. We also have educational/non-profit pricing. We're charging by the amount of storage space on our servers you need/use (with incremental storage added every month).  Bandwidth is unlimited. Simple, clean and easy.  If you have a popular channel with lots of users accessing your content, unlike most services, we don't charge you extra for heavy bandwidth use.  This lets you plan your monthly costs without having to worry about a huge bill one month just become something you did was popular. Existing ClickCaster Users: If you've already got an account on ClickCaster, you can try the new service out free for the next month (until around June 10th).  Your existing files won't count toward your monthly storage limits (only new files you upload).  On or around the 10th, we'll ask that you choose a package that best fits your needs. If you decide not to choose a package, we'll continue to host your existing files until at least July 31st at no cost to you.  Keep in mind you won't be able to add any new files until you choose a package. New ClickCaster Customers: If you're new to ClickCaster, we'll ask that you choose a package and provide a credit card when you sign up.  Although we'll charge the card, your first thirty days are a trial period to make sure you like the service.  If you decide during that time it's not for you, simply drop us an email at cancel@clickcaster.com and we'll refund your money. If you have questions, comments or would like to provide feedback, we're all ears.  Just drop us a line at info@clickcaster.com or leave us comment sin the forums at: http://forums.clickcaster.com . We're particularly interested in hearing about what you'd like added to ClickCaster.  If enough users ask for a feature we removed, or a new feature we didn't have before, we'll very likely put it into a future upgrade to the site.  Just let us know what you're looking for. The ClickCaster Team. 
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