eyeVio, a new social networking and video sharing site with the slogan “my life, your emotion” owned by Sony has launched in Japan today. However, as I visited the site and trying to get a first grasp of it, I noticed that they have posted a report (as shown below), i.e. system failure that caused by power problem happened in the data center as at 18:20.

2007/04/27 システム障害のご報告
本日18:20分過ぎ、データセンター内の電源トラブルのためシステムがダウンしました。現在、電源の方は対策を実施済みです。引き続きアクセスのしにくさの改善に全力を尽くします。ご不便かとは存じますが、どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

2007/04/27 ただいまアクセスが集中しております
ただいま、アクセスが集中し、つながりにくい状況になっています。現在、対策中です。ご迷惑をおかけしまして申し訳ありません。

2007/04/27 本日よりeyeVio一般公開です。

eyeVio is an Ajax based social network Web 2.0 site. When you visit some of the member profiles listed in eyeVio, you’ll find the well-designed, highly customized, and the features, appearance, as well as the functions of this Web application is favorably received not only by the Japanese people, but the Chinese people as well, albeit that it just officially rolled out to the market this morning 10a.m. One of the profiles that I visited, e.g. KIKI, her page has allowed the public to view, vote on, and a personal short clip, thumb up, score points, i.e. appraisal value have been integrated with the page. Some famous people have also set up their personal profile on eyeVio and this included the yoga Master Duncan Wong; I even read that he is teacher of choice to Madonna, Sting and Demi Moore. In addition, the special feature offered by eyeVio is the videos can be downloaded through the use of walkman, PSP and iPod, but television will be in the future, according to this article. Though the loading of each member profile is slow, eyeVio has achieved nearly 1,000 members so far. I even came across the landing page with the following message appeared in the midst of writing:

ただいま緊急メンテナンスを実施中です。復旧までしばらくお待ちください。

利用者の皆様にはご迷惑をお掛けしますが、ご理解ご協力のほど、よろしくお願いします。
(Urgent maintenance)

eyeVio, can be registered by using any email address. If a user use Gmail address to register, this email address will become the login address for his/her eyeVio account. Users can set their videos to be “private”, and file uploading is restricted to 150MB. Moreover, eyeVio staff monitor the videos posted by the users 24/7, i.e. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Any video that violate the copyright issues or any harmful content found on eyeVio, it would be deleted instantly. Currently, videos can be viewed on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers.

In fact, eyeVio is another social network venture of Sony as Sony Pictures Entertainment has bought Grouper.com in August last year, according to this Japanese news.