As the holidays rapidly approach we are excited to be soon sending out private beta invites to everyone who’s on our list. If you are a video creator, actor, director, writer, producer, story teller, animator, or have other talents for producing video content, then be sure to visit our site and submit your email address.

We intended to send out invites last week but the relaunch of UnleashVideo, the exclusive video sharing site for our private beta, has taken longer than anticipated to complete. The good news is that additional tweaks and features are being added to Spidvid in the meantime, so your initial experience with our platform will be better than even we thought it would be.

The plan now is to send out the invites on Christmas Eve (December 24th). Who said that gifts shouldn’t come before Christmas Day anyways?

If you get time over the Christmas break between some much needed R&R be sure to take the time to put together a solid Spidvid profile. We accept copying embed codes from YouTube and other sites where you may already have produced video content and information about yourself. Also don’t be shy to do some copying and pasting from your favorite social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn to save time creating your Spidvid profile.

There will be a blog post next week where we explain how to pimp your Spidvid profile because it’s so important as a video creator needs to show that he or she has leadership qualities to build and manage remarkable production teams which results in quality produced content, and it’s important for professionals so that creators can see what qualities and talent he or she can add to content. So if you’re not already subscribed to our new posts by email or RSS be sure that you are one way or another, or you may miss out on some really exciting stuff.

Do you want an early Christmas present this year? Quickly head over to our site, click the ‘join our video production community’ on the left hand side, provide your email address, and look for an email from us on Thursday.

One last thing… good luck with your last minute Christmas shopping, if you are already done then give yourself a big pat on the back you non-procrastinator you.

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Things are looking good as we are getting a few new invite requests from remarkable people each day who want to join our private beta community. Our goal is to hit at least 200 individuals by the week of December 14th so that we can send out a first batch of invites to everyone on the list. From then after for every 200-300 invite requests we get we will issue a new block of invites. We considered sending out new invites every day, but to us it makes more sense to build and add to the community a couple hundred individuals at a time. If it gets to the point where we are seeing 200 new invite requests/day then we will need to work extra hard to successfully scale up the community.

During the next couple weeks leading up to this momentous invite distribution event we are developing a few new features that we feel fit well into the core of Spidvid’s platform. Going forward after our video production community will heavily determine what new developments we do, how to make the usability experience as easy as possible, and how to grow this social movement across the world.

Our exclusive distribution partner for the private beta is UnleashVideo, and with that comes the need of customization. So as the sneak peak prototype image (below) shows, a major redesign/layout is well underway to accommodate video content from Spidvid’s production community. The most unique aspects are showing each team member who was part of the video production project, showing where the members are located geographically across the planet (via Google Maps), and the open ability to interact with videos through Facebook Connect and Disqus.

If you have already provided your email address to us for private beta access thanks for doing so, if not why not head over to Spidvid right now to click on the side ‘join our video production community’ button and reserve your spot as an early Spidvid adopter.

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