“Wixi has seen a tremendous amount of growth during our private beta phase,” says Arthur Madrid, CEO of Wixi, Inc. “The main feedback we’ve received from our users is that Wixi offers a unique experience combining an online media storage service with a social network. People say they use their Wixi as an iTunes online. We now look forward to bringing our service to the masses and to our next levels of success.”

Since the network’s launch at TechCrunch40 in September 2007, Wixi has grown to a membership of more than 200,000 Beta testers worldwide, hosting more than 1,000,000 files. Wixi continues to expand its offerings daily, improving upon its user interface and features to manage thousands of media “in the cloud.”

Among the features added since its launch:
• New design make the navigation easier to manage large amount of personal files/folders inside the Wixi online desktop.
• YouTube channel & Bookmarklet: to add any YouTube video directly to Wixi
• Restrictions rules: to only add media inside the Wixi network when users are friends.
• iPhone version on http://iphone.wixi.com (15,000 streams per day)
• New Wixi universal player that offers Web semantic suggestions for media playing.

Web users who register within 1 month of the launch will enjoy the benefits of unlimited file storage for free. Beginning in October, new members will enjoy 3 GB of media storage on the network for free, or opt for Wixi’s premium service, which will allow unlimited file storage for $4.99 per month and $50 per year.

Since its launch at TechCrunch40 in September 2007 6 months ago, Wixi has seen tremendous success in both user registration and the growth of users’ media libraries. Wixi has now:

• more than 100,000 Wixians registered as Beta testers
• 500,000 files hosted: photos: 8% – audio: 19% – videos: 54%
• 80,000 unique monthly visitors
• 50,000 streams per day, 15,000 on iPhone

Wixi has seen a tremendous amount of growth during our private beta phase, and we would like once again to thank all our Beta testers who have contributed to this success and have proven Wixi’s vision that there is a true need for on-demand access to personal media files, even when a user doesn’t have access to his computer.

We now look forward to continued feedback and our next levels of success, and invite you to keep spreading the word all around you about Wixi, the media-centric, web-based desktop where users interact with each other by privately sharing personal media, including photos, audio and video!

Wixi Team
www.wixi.com

Every day, hundreds of our beta testers are accesssing their Wixis through WiFi or Edge connection to play their media files and share them with their friends and relatives.

This graph speaks for itself: look at how much data bas been transferred in January when compared to December!

We would also like to thank EdgeCast, our technical provider, for the efficiency of their content delivery network, and their integrated progressive download technology, which makes all this possible by ensuring the best delivery speed to our users worldwide!

EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our users a competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media, providing our users the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from ISP contracts, capital investments and operational hassles.

To try the service, check it out at:

Send us your feedback and ideas for improvement so we can start working on the next version – offering even more features from your iPhone mobile!

Seb,
Wixi Blog Admin

Our philosophy being Access your media anywhere, play it everywhere!, expanding our online desktop to a mobile platform was the next logical step for Wixi!

Wixi iPhone will offer a streamlined version of the full platform for mobile viewing. Users can:

• Access their Wixi desktop pages or those of their friends through user-specific URLS, and click through to their friends’ desktops to browse their files: http://iphone.wixi.com/username (replace last part with your username on Wixi)
• Stream all media content, they are converted automatically to Iphone formats
• Browse the Wixi iPhone portal to see what new content has been uploaded by the Wixi community
• Search for content and play it directly on your iPhone

Our development efforts have been influenced a lot by our Beta testers. We have a community that is very active in our forums and who is providing our development team with excellent feedback. It has helped us continue to develop an outstanding product, and we are sure it will also guide expanded offerings for the mobile platform.

Special Offer: to try the service on your iPhone, we are opening registration to the 5000 first users. Put the access code iphone to signup!

The Wixi Team,
www.wixi.com

Wixi will be presenting on stage December 11 at 3 pm. Our team will be given 7 minutes to convince a panel of five judges – composed of investors, media, industry pundits and successful serial entrepreneurs – that Wixi’s service and technology is the best of the best!

We are thrilled about this news, and are hard at work preparing for our next on-stage appearance!

For more information about the LeWeb3 Conference or to register, visit: www.leweb3.com/leweb3 – see you in Paris!

Seb,
Wixi Blog Admin

The realization of our year of work on Wixi was in our eight-minute presentation on Tuesday afternoon, when we shared publicly for the first time the story of Wixi and a live demo of the product.

I especially want to thank Oleg, founder of Wixi for pushing the project with me everyday, Lisandro our CTO who did not sleep for 1 month 6 months, Seb our COO who is everywhere all the time, Mike and Jason for believing in us and all Wixi team to have worked 16 hours per day for this private launch. (Seb, Cyrille, Julie, Fabian, Francisco, Gabriel, Juan, Damian, Julien from LeDjam , LN from Xupito, Pablo from GotVertigo )

Also, now we want to satisfy and we are really happy with the first feedback and posts. Long life to Wixi!

Here are the pictures and videos of the event: