‘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.

Content Sponsorship – Media Companies Grow Online Revenue with A Web 2.0 Approach

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 17 Sep 2008

Most online media properties are looking for new ways to increase their online revenues that are consistent with their brand. Advertisers want to engage directly with their target audiences with meaningful, rich content. Media properties are looking to ad more rich, social media capabilities to their sites Media properties are constrained financially to invest in | View post »

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | View post »

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 »

The Chevy Tahoe and the Dangers of UGC

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

In the case history of user generated content, one of the object lessons often discussed is the Chevy Tahoe campaign for users to create video advertisments for the new SUV. The campaign, which formerly lived at Chevyapprentice.com, but has since been discontinued, provided users with video clips and soundtracks, which they were encouraged to remix, | 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 »

Social Media Mixtape, 2007

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Dec 2007

The folks at Mashable have created a wonderful holiday gift: Most of the tunes includes videos. Here's a shortlist – visit mashable's post for inline videos and songs: The Twitter Song, by stephen e. streight Gotta Digg, by Kina Grannis Facebook Song, by Straight no Chaser The Myspace Song by Grant Cook Facebook Admirer by | 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 »

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