| April 21, 2008. | 10,000 Registered Users. |
| We are proud to announce that Overstream.net has hit 10,000 Registered Users. We also now have over 4,000 public overstreams in many different languages. The community is thriving - congratulations, everybody! |
| March 13, 2008. | Moved to Better Hosting. |
| We have just moved to a more reliable hosting, MyRackspace. Details in this forum thread. |
| February 29, 2008. | Moved to a Dedicated Server. |
| Overstream users have gotten too numerous for our previous shared hosting environment, and so a couple of days ago we have made the transition to a bigger and faster dedicated server. Details in this forum thread. |
| February 10, 2008. | Sorting Controls on Profile Page. |
| Sorting controls have been added to the User Profile page, allowing to browse through a user's overstreams in a specified order. |
| February 2, 2008. | Megavideo supported. |
| Megavideo has been added to the list video providers supported by Overstream. |
| January 24, 2008. | Veoh supported. |
| Veoh has been added to the list video providers supported by Overstream. For details, see this forum thread. |
| January 20, 2008. | 5000 Registered Users. |
| Overstream.net hits 5000 Registered Users. We also now have over 1000 public overstreams. |
| January 18, 2008. | Forum Profile linked from Overstream Profile. |
| A user's Forum Profile page is now linked from their Overstream Profile page, details in this forum thread. |
| December 29, 2007. | New Year's Site Update: Languages. |
| The site has been updated to allow for explicitly specifying a language when creating, searching and browsing overstreams. The update includes a number of other small features, for details see this forum thread. |
| December 24, 2007. | An overstream reaches one million views. |
| This overstream is the first one to receive one million views, over a period of three and a half months following its creation. |
| December 19, 2007. | Personal RSS Feed added. |
| A personal RSS Overstream Publication Feed link is now available on each user's Profile Page. Subscribe to it to receive all the public overstreams created by this user. |
| December 12, 2007. | One Year Anniversary! |
| Overstream celebrates its One Year Anniversary since its beta launch on December 12, 2006! To mark the occasion, a member of our community has created this overstream. |
| November 30, 2007. | 2000 Registered Users. |
| Overstream.net hits 2000 Registered Users. |
| November 2, 2007. | View Page title augmented. |
| The name of the overstream has been added to the View Page title (showing in the title bar of your browser's window). |
| September 13, 2007. | Overstram Editor 0.6 released. |
| Overstream Editor 0.6 has been released, with SRT Import and Export support. For more details, see the Editor v0.6 Forum Thread. |
| July 27, 2007. | Overstream It! bookmarklet added. |
| You no longer have to copy-paste the video URL into the Overstream Editor: instead, get the Overstream It! bookmarklet for your browser. Simply click it while watching a video at your favorite video website and overstream that video. To get the Overstream It! bookmarklet, log in to the site and go to My Overstream section. |
| July 1, 2007. | Full Screen mode support added. |
| Full Screen mode support has been added to the Overstream Player. If you are using Flash Player with version 9.0.28 or later (when the Full Screen mode started), you will see a new button appear in the Overstream Player. Also note that your previously created overstream video embeds need to be updated in order for the Full Screen mode to work. |
| May 2, 2007. | Ratings and Comments can now be disabled. |
| Ratings and User Comments for an overstream can now be disabled by its creator from the Overstream Properties page in the Editor. Also, default ratings and comments preferences for new overstreams can be set globally in the User Profile on My Overstream page. |
| May 1, 2007. | Addover.net is launched. |
| Addover.net, a sister site of Overstream.net which allows adding annotation to any website content, is launched. |
| April 21, 2007. | LiveJournal embedding enabled. |
| Directly embedding Overstream videos into LiveJournal.com has been enabled by the LiveJournal team. |
| April 20, 2007. | Overstream is out of Beta. |
| A little more than 4 months since its launch, Overstream has gone out of the Beta testing stage. |
| April 16, 2007. | Dailymotion supported. |
| Dailymotion has been added to the list video providers supported by Overstream. |
| April 13, 2007. | MySpace Video supported. |
| MySpace Video has been added to the list video providers supported by Overstream. |
| March 29, 2007. | Favicon added. |
| A favicon with the overstream logo has been added to overstream.net. |
| March 2, 2007. | Comments Enabled on the View Page. |
| You can now leave comments for an overstream, and engage in lively discussions. |
| February 21, 2007. | New Embed Codes on the View Page. |
| For those wishing to embed an overstream on their website, embed codes have been added to the view page, right below the video. The embed codes are available in 3 sizes (Large, Medium and Small), for a perfect match to the amount of your webpage space that you want to contribute to the Overstream Player.
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| February 12, 2007. | Overstream Player Updated to version 0.5. |
| The Overstream Player has been updated to version 0.5. The size of the video display area of the Overstream Player has been drastically increased. |
| February 9, 2007. | Valentine Card blanks and bookmarking sites support added. |
| Valentine Video Postcard Blanks have been added. Time to send a custom video postcard for Valentine's Day!
Bookmarking sites (del.icio.us, digg, etc.) support has been added. You can now add an overstream to one of the supported bookmarking sites by clicking on the appropriate site icon underneath the overstream player on the view page. |
| February 7, 2007. | News Page created and multiple RSS feeds set up. |
| The News Page has been created to display latest Overstream.net website and technology news.
The following RSS Feeds have been set up:
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 Featured Overstreams (the overstreams featured on the front page enter this feed).
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Published Overstreams (the first time an overstream is made public it enters into this feed).
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Modified Overstreams (every time a public overstream is modified it enters into this feed).
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Overstream News Feed (overstream.net website and technology news).
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Overstream Forum Feed (a single feed of posts from all forums).
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