You might have noticed Yubby was offline yesterday and for sometime today. First we would like to apologize for this unplanned outage and explain to you what happened.

Like many websites Yubby is hosted on the servers of Amazon also known as the Amazon cloud. This is by far one of the safest and fastest locations for any website. That’s why companies like Foursquare, Reddit, Hootsuite and many others choose for this solution.

However, yesterday something went terribly wrong at Amazon. Without going into too much detail it comes down to human error; someone turned on a full back-up of the many many terabytes of the Amazon clouds which stated to copy data from one data center to another not only clogging the tubes but also bringing down all websites hosted on these servers.

Now Yubby is back online and all systems are functionally normally. Wen can assure you non of your data was lost during the outage or any of your information compromised. We will take measures to try to avoid outages like this in the future although we realize it nearly impossible to arm ourselves against human stupidity…

If you want to read more about the outage please check Mashable, Techcrunch and many other publications that covered the incident. If you have any questions or concerns please let us know: hello@yubby.com or @Yubby on Twitter.

Here at Yubby we love Sony products so we decided to team up with Sony to bring you the best Sony product videos and Sony product reviews you can find in the videosphere. Sony created channels for their products like the Cyber-Shot and Sony Alpha camera, Bravia TV, Playstation, Walkman, and many other product lines.

Below you can browse through their different channels. Also keep an eye on their Yubby profile because they will be adding more and more channels the coming weeks!

Besides the channels on Yubby Sony also integrated the Sony product video channels on their own website using Yubby widgets. For example on their Sony Walkman or the Sony bloggie page you can watch the Sony videos through the Yubby widget.

We are experiencing some problems with the banner uploader for Mac OSX users. When uploading a banner in the channel admin screen the uploader could stall halfway during the process. As far as we know this only affects Mac users with Firefox or Safari running the latest Mac OSX updates. This is a known bug and we are working on resolving it ASAP.

Update: It works again. Keep calm and carry on

Do you want to include live streams in your Yubby channel? Well now you can! We’ve just started supporting ustream.tv video on Yubby.

All you need to do to add a live video stream to your Yubby channel is past the ustream.tv URL directly in the Yubby search engine. To search pick any video network you like - because it’s a URL you will always find exactly the video you wanted.

Now all you do is drag-and-drop that video into your Yubby channel and you are done! It works on Yubby but also in all embeddable widgets.

Confused? Just check out the short instruction video below and we will walk you through it.

We’ve added some cool new widget options upon popular request. Now when you click on the embed widget and go to the customized widget tab you will see some new options. You can now choose which video from your channel you want to play first (default is the first video in the channel), if you want the channel to autoplay when the page loads, and you can choose if you want to embed using iframe or javascript giving you full coding flexibility.

It gives you much more control how you want to embed your channel. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Do you know the URL of a specify video you want to add to your Yubby channel? From now on you can just pop it in the search engine we will find the video in seconds!

How does it work? It’s as simple as it is clever. Just paste the URL directly in the search engine. You don’t even have to pick which video source you want to search, this is automatically detected. Click search and….voila! The video is right there waiting to be added to your channel.

URL search was one of the most requested features on the UserVoice feedback form. Do you have any feature requests? Just let us know!

By popular request we’ve added five brand new video sources to the mix: Hulu, TV.com, Flickr, 5min, and Streetfire.net. These five sources bring the total of video websites we index and support by to a whopping 39!

Hulu

Hulu quickly became a top-3 video website in the US offering premium video content from nearly 190 leading content companies. You can now search and add full episodes of series like The Simpsons, The Office, 30 Rock, Lost and many other to your Yubby channels and embed them where ever you like. Due to content restrictions most videos are only available to the US.

TV.com

TV.com is the fastest growing TV fan site and gives you access to some of the best TV series and backgrounds on the internet. You can find full episodes from series like Smallville, NCIS, CSI and may others but also backgrounds and extras from your favorite shows. It’s all available through the Yubby search engine. Some video content can be restricted to US only.

5min

Ever wanted to know how to make great brownies, how to play a guitar, how to talk to cops or how Feng Shui works? 5min has the answer. 5min is the premier video website for instructional videos and DIY projects. Now you can find all these handy videos all through the easy Yubby search interface and aggregate your favorite videos in channels.

Flickr

Wait a minute, Flickr is for photos, right? Sure, but Flickr also has lots of great video content and we’ve made it available to you in the Yubby search engine. Flickr videos are max 90 seconds long but are usually of very high quality.

Streetfire.net

Are you a petrol head or greasemonkey? Then you are going to love Streetfire.net! Streetfire.net features some of the best video on everything about cars and racing. Car stunts, racing, drifting, Bullrun, reviews, crashes…they can all be found on Streetfire and they are available through the Yubby search engine.

Do you have a favorite online video desination which you would like us to index? Let us know on the feedback forum and you might just get what you wish for…

Developed and targeted to specific areas of expertise Yubby Solutions help conference organizers, brand managers, contest organizers, and educators to embrace the power of online video without the hassles it usually entails. Each turn-key solution is attuned to successfully and painlessly deploy online video to support the goals of these target groups.

Yubby solutions combine the ease-of-use of the Yubby technology with the power of video aggregation across the videosphere.

We are starting out with four custom made solutions:

	Yubby for conferences To organize a successful conference is to engage the visitor from beginning to end. What better way to inspire people then with great online video? Read more…
	Yubby for brand management Do you know what videos are being published about your brand or company video websites? Yubby can help staying on top of the videosphere and stay in control. Read more…
	Yubby for contests Harness the power of online video for your next contest and engage your community of customers and prospects. Yubby makes it easy to deploy your online video contest. Read more…
	Yubby for education Online video can be utilized as a tool for education to support teaching materials or as a research tool. Yubby technology makes is easy for schools and universities to use online video as a teaching tool. Read more…

Are you considering to deploy online video but would like to do it hassle free with low infrastructure costs? Take a look at Yubby Solutions.

If you really love aggregating and publishing your online video with Yubby you are going to love our new pro accounts. We have enough variety for anyone!

So what can you get?

	Pro and Pro Plus Pro and Pro Plus accounts designed for the serious video users who want more control and cool features like ad-free widgets, exclusive widget skins, customization options, advanced statistics, and more. Read more…
	Business accounts Business accounts are perfect if you are a business and you want to integrate your Yubby channels in your website(s). It’s the only solution that allows full commercial use of Yubby channels and includes white labeling and customization options, support by e-mail and Skype, and advanced statistics. Read more…
	Enterprise accounts If you want full custom control of your video solution enterprise if for you. We will customize the Yubby technology to seamlessly integrate in your website or application. These are turn-key video solutions with low cost for storage and delivery of video. Read more…

Check out the Yubby Pro page for more information. If you have any questions about the options or possibilities let us know: remco@yubby.com

Using the new analytics feature we also updated our filters on the channel page of Yubby. You can now filter the channels on Yubby views, viewing time, number of videos, and many more. Go to the channel overview page to check it out.