Today was a busy day of course. There definitely seems to be interest and we definitely look forward to adding on and improving our service so it's even better. Here are some highlights, all really positive except geeknewscentral was disappointed. My reply to Todd who runs geeknews and was in the past nice enough to include Prodigem in his book, continues below.

www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/18/movedigital-launches...

mobilecrunch.com/2006/07/18/movedigital-means-movies-on-your-mobile/

www.scripting.com/2006/07/18.html#edwardsDoesBittorrent/

digg.com/politics/John_Edwards_is_Using_Bittorrent

chris.pirillo.com/2006/07/18/movedigital-is-moving-forward/

techmeme.com/#a060718p58

www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/006264.html#comments

politicalwire.com/archives/2006/07/18/edwards_using...

In Italian:
skytg24.blogs.com/sky_tg24_pianeta_internet/2006/07/index.html

German:
www.de-bug.de/blog/archives/1066.html

Japanese:
jp.techcrunch.com/archives/movedigital-launches...

My response for Todd Cochrane at geeknewscentral. I wanted to include this on your blog, but wasn't able to add a comment. In general I think this is just a series of misunderstandings and I hope we can work it out. Continued...

Todd, I'm sorry you find the new service dissappointing, but I think
there may be much in misunderstanding that is leading you to some of
your conclusions. Firstly, all Prodigem URLs will be redirected to
their equivalent new MoveDigital locations. We're having issues
getting Prodigem's DNS transferred over and once that takes place,
Prodigem.com will be moving off its current server and pointed to its
new MoveDigital home where all urls will transparently redirect.

Per your second comment, Prodigem never did direct downloads before so
we're going out the door with something completely new from Prodigem
and taking our best crack at it. We plan to have a feature to allow
people not to make available direct downloads and only do torrents ...
thus for people like you that don't want your bandwidth used on direct
downloads and would prefer only the torrent features, this would make
sense. I can only urge patience, it's been a monumental task to
launch the new service and all the bells and whistles will come.

Per your third comment, yes, I agree our auto publishing feature is
meager and doesn't make full use of people's RSS feeds. In fact, with
all the cool mobile publishing we've added, I also think it's a bummer
that it can't auto-mobilize your content yet. But again, it's just
one of those things where you launch with what you have, release
early, release often and pretty soon you have a refined product that
shines. Give us time here.

As to your comment on download stats anymore, I'm not sure what you
mean. Prodigem really only provided the number of completed downloads
of a torrent. MoveDigital does the same. For example, here's the
public file info page for a video I took of Larry Lessig
download.movedigital.com/lerhaupt/3161. You'll see it lists
the completed count and also includes the current p2p ratio.

And I'll agree that we defeatured somewhat from Prodigem. But
generally this is only in the realm of offering a BitTorrent
marketplace, which almost nobody was using in the first place.
Otherwise, I think we've added alot.

I'd really like to resolve this with you.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 07:12 PM in general | Comments (0)