Evernote + Screencast ready for prime duration and paid use

Two of my preferred Mac-friendly cloud services have now made the jump to actually accepting money from subscribers, which is a good thing (really, it is!). TUAW favorite Evernote has moved from private to public beta, and Techsmith video hosting site Screencast.com is now at 1.0 release status. Both services are now offering trial/free plans alongside their premium plans for paid subscribers.

The Screencast.com site is already integrated with the free Jing Project capture tool for Mac and the pro-level (and, at least for the moment, Windows-only) Camtasia Studio app; you can additionally upload screencasts that you create with nearly any tool you like (including ADA multi-winner Screenflow) in a variety of formats for hosting on the service. Selecting which of your screencasts to share and which to password-protect is very easy, and the service automatically sets up RSS and iTunes feeds for the folders you choose to construct public.The 60-day trial history includes 200 MB of storage and a 1GB transfer limit; paid plans start at $6.95 a month.

Evernote’s private beta grew to include by 125,000 users (ahem), and the new public beta includes an option for a $5/month premium user plan that increases your monthly transfer quota/new note cap from 40 MB to 500 megabytes, SSL for all input, priority access to the text-recognition queues and tier 1 customer support. Plus you get a snazzy t-shirt while supplies last (pink elephants on parade!). The web interface to Evernote has plus gotten a facelift, with full drag-and-drop support and an improved clipper feature. Can’t say yet whether they’ve fixed the session timeout issue that ate a towering note my wife was writing last night, but

I surely hope so.

In a conversation a couple of weeks back, Evernote CEO Phil Libin shared some future directions for the product with us as well as a couple of tips from his personal use of Evernote.

First, what many are waiting for will be coming very soon: a native iPhone client for Evernote (shipping shortly after the App Store opens), including one-button publishing to Evernote and location tagging for every item you create from your phone, like a trail of breadcrumbs leading you back to that favorite restaurant or bargain spot. (Phil’s tip: whenever he parks his car at the airport, he takes a picture of the parking spot and sends it to Evernote to help jog his jetlagged brain.)

Second, the upcoming platform-wide features for Evernote will soon include more granular controls on publishing and sharing, a revamped Windows client, Evernote for Blackberry, and audio notes. (Phil’s tip: he uses Evernote notebooks to share collections of photos or screenshots, like that accidental poetry from CNN rundown.) Later that summer we should expect to see the first public release of the Evernote API, which will permit third-party devs to add features to the service (personally I’d love to have a business card postprocessor tool, which Libin sees as a good 3rd party opportunity).

Other future features are yet to be publicly disclosed, but Libin hinted that the image-processing ability of Evernote’s servers may be bent to teasing out specific features of photographs. Faces? Product barcodes? Geotagged landscapes? Can’t wait to find out. Meanwhile, the free Mac version of Evernote (read Brett’s original review here) is downloadable at evernote.com.

[Source] Michael Rose

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