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Ankoder.net - download youtube videos straight to your ipods

Rex Chung — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:58:13 +0000

We released http://free.ankoder.com a couple of months ago, there’s been a steady growth. Many users wanted to download the videos straight to their ipods, and now we’ve done it. We’ve relaunched the site as htt://www.ankoder.net and we’ve given a it a long dued face lift as well.

First, sign up for an account on Ankoder.net.

Once logged in, goto “My Videos” and copy the podcast link.

Now goto iTunes > Advanced > Subscribe to podcast. Paste that podcast link and click ‘OK’.

Now you can start downloading by inputting the youtube link and select “ipod”.
Then click “Download”.
The videos will be downloaded to your iTune and sync with your ipod or iphones automatically.

One month since we launched our youtube downloader

Rex Chung — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:46:18 +0000

We released a youtube downloader as a demo of our video conversion capability. We’ve processed more than 1500 videos. It is certainly interesting to see what some people have attempted to convert. There were some links to some porn-tube type video sites. Sorry we don’t support those sites (yet.. if ever). However we’re quite happy to see that some people do find it useful.

We’re developing very hard now to release our API to the public and doing more mashups with other web 2.0 services. It is likely to be within April that we will be able to release it.

Amazon Web Services downtime.

Rex Chung — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:11:06 +0000

Ankoder has experienced down time due to a Amazon wide issue. Many other services that relies on S3 are also affected. This definitely raises an alarm for many AWS users. We will consider some alternatives as a failover solution. I had not expect a large network like Amazon with that many users is capable dropping out at the same time.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=19714&tstart=0
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=19715&tstart=0

Its a pity that we’ve already experienced down time before we annouce our new Ankoder service officially on our blog.

There is a credit percentage from Amazon if they didn’t have 100% uptime.

99.9 is 10%, less than 99% is 25%

But you need to send them an awfully long email to get it.

Credit Request and Payment Procedures To receive a Service Credit, you must submit a request by sending an e-mail message to aws-sla-request @ amazon.com. To be eligible, the credit request must (i) include your account number in the subject of the e-mail message (the account number can be found at the top of the AWS Account Activity page); (ii) include, in the body of the e-mail, the dates and times of each incident of non-zero Error Rates that you claim to have experienced; (iii) include your server request logs that document the errors and corroborate your claimed outage (any confidential or sensitive information in these logs should be removed or replaced with asterisks); and (iv) be received by us within ten (10) business days after the end of the billing cycle in which the errors occurred. If the Monthly Uptime Percentage applicable to the month of such request is confirmed by us and is less than 99.9%, then we will issue the Service Credit to you within one billing cycle following the month in which the error occurred. Your failure to provide the request and other information as required above will disqualify you from receiving a Service Credit.