smush.it is a smash hit
Since me and Nicole announced smush.it yesterday at Ajax Experience and thanks to Christian Heilmann posting it on Ajaxian and Yahoo Developer Network, this thing seems to have exploded! It's all over the blogosphere, twitter-sphere and every other sphere.
BTW, Chris never seizes to amaze - he posted the video on Ajaxian at 11:01 am and our talk was from 10:30 to 10:35 am 
Last night, about 12 hours after the announcement, I checked the directory that stores the results and it had over 10 000 entries. There's one entry for every smush.it run, which means for example every page you smush using the FF extension. If you have 5 images on a page on average, this means over 50 000K smushed images in a day, nice!
We've received great feadback and great suggestions, keep'em coming. People are already making smush.it part of their dev/build process. People are already seeing response time performance improvement.
I'm really looking forward to releasing the official API, open source the code, the command-line version and all the fun stuff. We were just too busy trying to come up with something presentable for the Ajax conference.
The URL again: http://smushit.com
So, what's a smu? 
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October 2nd, 2008 at 6:39 am
This is absolutely wonderful! I downloaded your presentation on this very topic and thought that I, as soon as my new project starts, adopt as much as possible…
And then you go and make a web service that does this for ya! Wonderful!
I can’t wait for the command line/api/whatever to be done.
If I can help you in any way, tell me and I’ll do what I can.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Why didn’t you use smush.it (literaly) domain?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
we tried and haven’t given up, but it didn’t work on time for the conference announcement, so we settled temporarily for smushit.com, that’s how it ended up with the funny word in the domain
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Awesome! Very useful tool … thank you!
Do you think you’re gonna come to the PHP Conf in Montreal next year?
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Hi Sorin, I sent my proposal, hope they’ll like it. I do want to visit Montreal in the winter again!
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I’m waiting for Photoshop plugin
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
no idea how to do these, but I think a right click context menu in windows explorer would be nice
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 am
Very nice! Indeed recently there’s been much talk about optimizing CSS & JS size, HTML output, sprites and stuff, and to me it seems that the image optimizing was overlooked. Again, very nice work!
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
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October 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 am
Here is a small helper to get optimization from the commandline, to bridge the time until the official API is released.
http://pragmatig.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/automatically-reduce-image-sizes-with-smushit/
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 am
Pay attention: Smush.it [LOGO] and http://www.smushit.com [URL] are in conflict!
Italian people –like me– have difficult in reading because “dot it” is considered as italian suffix for URLs.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Check out this news post about Smush it and be sure to read on for the Smush it song at the end: http://hothardware.com/News/Smush-Your-Images-For-Speedier-Web-Page-Loading/
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Thanks Lazlo, this is hi-la-rious!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hi Gio,
we were actually trying to register smush.it but it didn’t happen on time for the announcement, now we have it, it just doesn’t point to the right DNS
S
October 20th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
[...] already exists SmushIt attracts users with hassle free process. The developers promise to release the official API, open source the code and the command-line version soon. For now there’s already workaround [...]
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Smush it is great, I am addicted to using it on every site I have. I’m not happy until I’ve free’d every last KB out of my images. Thanks!
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
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November 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
[...] може да прочетете в блога на Стоян, както и в поста на Ajaxian. Там може да намерите и видео от [...]
November 14th, 2008 at 3:09 am
[...] already exist. Smush It attracts users with hassle free process. The developers promise to release the official API, open source the code and the command-line version soon. For now there’s already workaround to [...]
November 15th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
[...] developed a plugin last year that integrated Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan’s Smush.it service with WordPress. In a nutshell, it reduced the file [...]
March 4th, 2010 at 6:59 am
Do you have any update on the command-line version of smush.it? It would be a really useful tool if you want to smush a whole directory of images.
Failing a command line version… anyone got any tips for batch smushing a directory of images?
Cheers,
Tom
March 26th, 2010 at 6:30 am
I’m also lookin for a command line version of this awesome tool. Anybody have any luck finding it? Seems that the devs on this project were working on releasing this a while back.