Tonight we launched a release with a number of small fixes, several new enhancements, and one very special new feature: support for Omniture's video tracking solution.
Omniture Video Tracking
You can now plug your Omniture Account ID into the Global panel in the App Studio and begin collecting data on video views, video players, how long individual videos are being viewed, and more, all from within your Omniture console.
Supported metrics include:
- Video Views
- Video Visits
- Daily Unique Visitors
- Videos
- Next Video Flow
- Previous Video Flow
- Video Segments Viewed
- Time Spent on Video
- Video Players
- Videos by Player
- Video Details by Player
There is also an option to automatically track all clicks under Omniture's Site Content > Links > Custom Links section. This metric simply records the URL of the page on which the widget is located when it is clicked. Please refer to Omniture for detailed documentation.
Enhancements
Better quality live video and audio recordings
We've upgraded video and audio processing for the live video/audio recorder available for blogs, message board posts, and community messaging. The audio sampling rate will increase from 8kHz to 22kHz. The resolution on live video recordings will increase from 160x120 pixels to 420x330 pixels.
Speedier profile pages
Profile pages have gotten a noticeable speed boost.
Widget thumbnails for Facebook
Widgets syndicated to Facebook now sport their very own custom thumbnails instead of Facebook's default image for embedded Flash objects. Widgets produced before today will need to be re-saved to generate these thumbnails.
Fixes
This release includes a number of fixes to the Feed Builder. Feeds now save reliably, the ability to filter message board feeds for particular forums has been restored, sorting media items by their ratings works again, as do filtering by date and sub-category, and all feed filters now accept special characters like ampersand (&) and underscore (_).
Fixed a bug causing problems with editing Actions in the App Studio.
Latest blog posts now use a member's profile photo as the blog thumbnail when a custom blog thumbnail is not uploaded.