‘Video’ posts

Comcast XFinity: TV (Almost) Everywhere

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Dec 2009

There’s been lots of industry buzzz about Time Warner and Comcast’s TV Everywhere plan, which would allow subscribers to fixed-wire cable offerings access to premium content over internet connections, freeing content from the cable box (or cable card). Although it isn’t exactly setting content free on the web, it does seem a positive step in [...]

Kaltura-Alfresco Integration Screencast

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Oct 2009

Here’s yet another great demo from my colleague Jeff Potts. This time it’s an integration of Alfresco with Kaltura, the open source video management, mashup, browser-based editing, and viewing platform. This would let you use Alfresco workflow with video assets, and then publish them to Kaltura for distribution outside the organization. (We’re using a Kaltura | View post »

Screencast: Facebook Connect Social Shopping on Magento

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Oct 2009

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OMMA Global Day One: The Year the Media Died

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Sep 2009

Highlight of OMMA Global day one for me was Terence Kawaja of GCA Savvian, whose presentation included a verse by verse playing and discussion of his own satirical song “Mad Avenue Blues” (sung to the tune of “American Pie,” with the refrain changed to “The Year the Media Died”). Like the original, it’s long (9:21 [...]

Crowdsourcing, Incentive, and Value

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Jul 2009

In this video, Jeff Howe, a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, presents during a Berkman Center Luncheon on some of the key issues around the concept, including: What motivates the contributors in crowdsourced efforts? Specifically, to what extent are [...]

WordPress Video Framework released

Posted by John Eckman on 14 May 2009

The folks at Automattic rolled out an upgrade this week to the video quality of videos hosted on WordPress.com blogs using their VideoPress service. The upgrade adds support for HD as well as other formats, using automated transcoding (see the announcement for more info): With the video upgrade (available on your upgrades page, bottom left | View post »

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 16 Apr 2009

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience As a fan of the New England Patriots the Patriots Calendar App, built using the Event | View post »

Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share Screencast, Part Two

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2009

In this screencast (see Part One here) Jeff Potts walks through some additional functionality in Alfresco Share, including: How new share “sites” (collaboration spaces or communities) get created How sites can be customized, including adding and removing dashlets from sites As promised, Jeff also shows us some custom components which demonstrate the types of custom | View post »

Enterprise Collaboration: Alfresco Share screencast, Part One

Posted by John Eckman on 12 Feb 2009

One of the joys of working at Optaros is the opportunity to work with colleagues like Jeff Potts, who you may know from his blog (ECM Architect) or as the author of Packt Publishing’s Alfresco Developer Guide. I asked Jeff to add his expertise to the Labs blog by way of a demonstration of Alfresco | View post »

Kaltura: Interactive Multi-User Video Service

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Dec 2008

Kaltura is an interactive, multi-user video editing platform made available as a service. They provide plugins for WordPress, Drupal, and MediaWiki, as well as a reference implementation and detailed documentation for how to leverage their service in PHP and Ruby. In essence, Kaltura provides a mechanism whereby users can upload, transcode, and edit video used | View post »