I got the beta invite to sign up for SplashCast’s beta launch and had to promptly take it down because well marshall was on it like within 20 mins of posting it requesting to take it down to comply with their launch requirements at demo.com (I’ll accept that explanation). But I inadvertently deleted the post without saving the content first AAARRRGGGHHHHHH!!

So here we go again.

I signed up for the service and it was quite easy all you need is a display name an email, password and date of birth. By the way if anybody is still on the planet from the year 1876 you can still register for the service.

Right so let’s see what kind of schwing SplashCast can offer its users.

“First, SplashCast is not a site; it is a service that allows you to play dynamically updated channels of content on your web page, blog, or social network page (like MySpace).”

I can set up as many channels as I like within my account, there are three already set up for you when you sign up, oh it’s beta invite by the way, and you can create as many shows as you like of content that can be either video, text, photos or audio clips or one RSS feed to bind them all. You can mix and match content like photos with video or text etc…schwing!

First you create a show, name it then you can upload the particular content you want that show to be made off. For video you can link directly to content off from YouTube and add it to your show. Simple enough. There is a limit right now for photos which seems to be 1000 KB for direct upload however you can also link to a URL, or do a search within uploaded content already on their servers.

I tried to upload videos too but it didn’t work so I just linked the below video from YouTube.

Publishing content is as simple as copy pasting html code. Plus anybody else can copy it as well and publish it on their website.

Here are some screenshots for you -

You can even create new players for your shows and choose from available sizes or create a custom size.

You can view statistics per show or per channel, there are the traditional bar statistics as well as a map feature with red dots showing hits via demographics…schwing!

So now can not only content creators have their content all neatly arranged by type of content like one channel for humor one for technology or whatever else you feel like creating but you can also syndicate that channel across various sites plus allow others to subscribe via RSS and publish your content on their sites.

Imagine people can now actually have their own personal internet TV network with content as varied as they can be.

This is definitely a product to keep track off as it grows. Right now they are being shown at the demo.com conference in Palm Desert, California. Since they have flicked the switch this post will stay up.

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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.