Take fuss-free copyright management to the next level.

Get your hands dirty with Myows’ publicly available API, fresh from the desks of our globally-scattered development team. This brings us one step closer to our platform-vision: helping the planet’s switched-on creative community help themselves. We’re looking for Myows members to help us add further functionality to the existing app at Myows.com. The brief is straightforward:

1- Use the new Myows API to develop a plug-in, add-on or stand alone application that assists other Myows members in registering, protecting and/or managing their rights

2- Develop this solution in a way that allow users to access key functionality in 4 steps or less

3- Implement your code and design with integrity, simplicity and elegance

We’re looking for plug-ins, add-ons and stand alone applications that improve the user experience and add useful functionality. To participate, you’ll need to create a thread before 15th May in our API forum category and provide a link to a demo of your app.

Fellow Myows users will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites from 15th till 31st May 2010. The winner takes home an Apple iPad (yeah, we’re self-funded!) and so does the runner-up (…yet generous!). We are also busy putting together a panel of industry heavyweights to award a jury’s grand prize of 1000$ to the app that best fulfills conditions 1,2 & 3 above.

Finally, any developer who creates an app we deem to be even vaguely useful and presentable will receive a lifetime Myows pro account (valued at over 1000$). Again – that’s just the kind of guys we are.

Feel free to create apps for resale (on Themeforest or CodeCanyon for instance) or build your own business on top of the Myows API. Obviously, we’d like you much more if you made your work available to the world for free, but we’ll get over it.

Feel free to run ideas and questions by the Myows team and other members by posting them up on the Forum. We are all here to help. Good luck. Be creative.

EDIT: Nettuts has published a video tutorial prepared by Dave:
How to Create an App with the Myows API (15 minutes).

A little over two weeks since opening Myows for Beta testing, we have done some nifty changes to the homepage (If you’re logged in, you’ll need to log out to view it).

jQuery to the rescue

We switched from a Flash-based header, built with the Gaia Flash Framework, to a jQuery-powered approach.

The immediate benefits should include :

1. Faster loading times
2. Ability to track conversion rates and clickmaps
3. Compatibility with devices who don’t support Flash
4. Better indexing
5. Increased UX
6. Scalability

I would love to hear what you think of it!

We now offer 500MB of free storage

During BETA testing, we’re now giving everybody 500MB to kick off with.

We may amend this in future depending on usage patterns and user feedback (rest assured: BETA testers will always have at least 500MB available to them).

Remember, Myows can optimize the size of the files you upload to save you space so 500 Megs should allow you to realistically store about 2500 images or 15,000 text files without paying a cent.

If you reach your storage limit, contact us and we’ll see if we can hook you up with a little extra room.

So if you’re haven’t done so already, get your free Myows account and start managing your copyright in a matter of minutes.