We’ve added an embed of the most recent episode to each of the show pages on our website.

Making our content accessible is our top priority, and we think that delivering video when a user visits a show page like Gregor’s (shown above) is a huge step towards that goal.

Also note that the video player comes along with an embed tool, allowing you to embed a StockTwitsTV show on your site.

While we’ve always had StockTwitsTV shows available via iTunes, it was long overdue for us to accomodate on-the-go users looking to catch up on the most recent shows.

Yesterday we launched  v1 of our new mobile site, currently optimized for Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.  Simply point Safari (or your mobile browser) to http://stocktwits.tv to stream iPhone optimized video files.

And, best of all, you can now add StockTwitsTV to your iOS browser by selecting ‘Add to Home Screen’ in the + menu of Safari:

We would love to hear from Android users on the mobile accessibility of http://stocktwits.tv – please drop us a line on Twitter.

Enjoy!

Our goal is to make our programming as accessible as possible to our viewers.

While we are constantly working to improve the consistency and quality of our fragile live-streaming systems, the user experience on our website (http://stocktwits.tv) is an equally critical element in viewing our programming.

Please don’t hesitate to leave feedback on what you think is great… or not so great about our new website.

I started using the program my first semester of film school at NYU, when non-linear video editing was just beginning the incredible trend of accessibility to non-professionals we’ve seen over the past decade.

Flashing back to the early 2000’s, Final Cut was a competitor to Avid, a mammoth software company that completely dominated the professional industry.  Mainly because of Final Cut’s more visual, mouse-based format for editing, the program was viewed as unprofessional, and its users thought of as amateur.

However, fundamental change was in the works.  The amateurs, working from home, suddenly were allowed to participate in the upper ranks of content production and distribution thanks to the internet and cheap camera technology.  Final Cut allowed these early adopters to create new, bold styles of filmmaking with help from the intuitive system Apple created for video editing.

The tipping point came a few years ago when Final Cut penetrated Hollywood.  Academy-award-winning filmmakers like the Coen Brothers were using Final Cut to rough cut their films themselves when previously they had no option but to submit to a darkened editing room at a production facility.

Not only did Final Cut penetrate the upper-reaches of the industry, but its more modern workflow became industry standard.

Avid fought back, creating “Express” versions of their software and lowering the sticker price for the “pro-sumer” category.  Today, Avid and Final Cut are both heavyweights in their industry.  But ask a professional editor in 2001 whether they would consider using Final Cut, and their answer would be drastically different than today.

I bring up this story with Stocktwits in mind — a modern and intuitive system for consuming real-time financial data.

It will be interesting to ask the haters what they think in 5-10 years.

Don’t worry — we’ve got your back.

Every show will be available On Demand shortly after the live broadcast.

And to make things even simpler, you can access on demand videos right from the day’s schedule.  Just hover over the listing and a Play button will appear if the video is available.

We’ll make sure the video is available just a few minutes after the show has aired.

Hope you enjoy!

But we love getting your reactions when it does.  First off, it lets us know that you’re watching… which is always nice

Most importantly — it helps us add priority to the list of technical issues to resolve.  Because there’s certainly no shortage with the current state of live streaming.

There’s so much that could go wrong.  Video on the web has matured already in just a few years, and with widespread proficiency of YouTube etc, pretty much everyone knows how easy web video broadcasting can be.

But live broadcasting is in it’s infancy.  We have few options for technology providers, and one is more fragile than the other.

Then there’s the broadcasters, scattered in different locations across the country.  On different networks with different upload speeds.  At various types of computers. 

This week a live show had major issues because someone in the same office was uploading a large file to Yousendit — unbeknownst to the broadcaster a few offices away.

High quality live broadcasting is a complicated process built on top the beta version of cutting-edge server and software technology.

But just to reiterate: we hear you.  And though you may not hear from us directly, we’re on it.  @ reply us, and we guarantee it will climb up the to-do list.

Some incredible developments are coming down the pipeline.

Hang in there — we promise to make it worth the wait.

We’ve fielded tons of suggestions about On Demand… categorizing videos alphabetically, categorizing by most recent, adding descriptions about the content of the show… unfortunately we don’t have the ability to add these features.  

While the StockTwitsTV Player is our own special concoction of technology, we didn’t write the code ourselves (though we are working on that).  So the On Demand section we have is what we’ve got – and the best use of the section from a user-experience standpoint is to display only the most recent episode of each show.

We’re constantly updating our archives, where every episode on StockTwitsTV is available, sorted chronologically by most recent broadcast.  Our next focus will be to add episode descriptions, more advanced titles, and a very cool search feature that will bring up all episodes related to a topic, ticker, or person.

As always, we read every suggestion you email or tweet – so keep them coming!

The StockTwitsTV Player is a Flash application, so first and foremost make sure that you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

If you are experiencing problems inside StockTwits Desktop, please check StockTwits.TV to see if the player loads there.

If, after all this, you still can’t get the StockTwitsTV Player to load, let us know and we will do our best to get your system tuned in to StockTwitsTV!

If you’re on Twitter or StockTwits Desktop, you can @reply us — @stocktwitstv

Or if you’re old fashioned you can send us an email — tv@stocktwits.com

Or if you’re a dinosaur you can call our toll-free help line: 1-888-STK-TWIT (1-888-785-8948)

While we certainly aren’t the pioneers of live web video, STTV is perhaps the world’s first truly-independent broadcast network. There are no corporate overseers regulating programming or pushing an agenda of any kind.

We are a live network delivering content that meets our viewers approval.

The big goal is financial education and real-time information, with a small dallop of entertainment thrown in the mix. If you’re watching StockTwitsTV and have some ideas to contribute, you know where to find us. And we will absolutely listen — because we are available to do so.  That’s the luxury of not having fancy equipment or the overhead of broadcasting on cable tv, or the need to maintain an FCC license to broadcast.

That said, our concoction of technology is extremely new, and not without it’s limitations. This will be the main focus of this blog: what we can add or change about StockTwitsTV; its content, its interface, and the service as a whole. Maybe if you’re lucky we’ll also let you pick our brains about the secret sauce we’re using to make it all work.

Thanks so much for tuning in. Please collaborate with us to make StocktwitsTV as interactive as possible.