‘Video’ posts
Zwory [Cloud Based Online Video Platform]
Posted by John Eckman on 22 Sep 2008
Leveraging Amazon’s cloud-computing infrastructure and the power of the Django framework, Zwory is a technology proof of concept for an online video platform which includes video uploads, transcoding, and multiple delivery options.
Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008
During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a | View post »
Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes
Posted by John Eckman on 28 Apr 2008
In this video, Berkman Center fellow Ethan Zuckerman recounts the high points in the history of online communities in just about seven minutes, including BBSs, MUDs, MOOs, and Weblogs, tracing all the way from the origins of internet email through to Fox’s acquisition of MySpace. The video comes from the YouTube channel recently established by | View post »
Increased use of Video Sharing Sites
Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008
Although one could argue that their popularity was already self-evident, research confirms that video sharing sites are responsible for twice the traffic in late 2007 as they were in late 2006. According to a report by the PEW Internet & American Life Project, based on a national survey of American adults in late 2007: | View post »
Web 2.0 Corporate Website Solution
Posted by Marc Osofsky on 11 Dec 2007
Many companies are struggling with the best way to upgrade their corporate website presence to Web 2.0. The desire is to re-design the site to reflect a Web 2.0 aesthetic and incorporate new functionality such as RSS, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, widgets and Rich Internat Application (RIA) functionality. We faced the same challenge and scoured the | View post »
Whiteboard to Wire in 12 weeks
Posted by Optaros on 11 Dec 2007
At the beginning, we had a whiteboard with the general idea of Unity's vision and what pieces they thought were critical for the beta release. Since the site was going to be launched in 12 weeks, we had a hard date that had to be met. This site had to have some key functionality including: | View post »




