Kaltura

The Industry Standard has posted a list of "10 'Net services that will succeed and 10 that will probably fail". They apparently are more sure of the successes than the failures.

To view all 20 companies, you need to provide The Industry Standard with 20 pageviews for Intel. You can enter your predictions into their prediction market as well.

Here are the companies on each list. Do you agree or disagree?

Will Succeed:

• Trulia
• SceneCaster
• CafeScribe
• OverlayTV
• Fav.or.it - Mashable wrote about them today
• Hulu
• Huddle
• Kaltura
• ModiFace
• Cognitive Code

Will Probably Not Succeed:

• Joost
• Twitter
• Zillow
• Chumby - just got funding today
• eCirkit
• Flock
• Spock
• Jobster
• Squidoo
• Second Life

NY-based online video collaboration tool Kaltura is announcing a partnership with Intelligent Television on cultural and educational projects. This is a good distribution deal for Kaltura as it pushes the company past just fun and time-wasting videos.

“Intelligent Television is all about educational productions, public media, and community projects, so Kaltura’s concept of group collaboration in rich media fits our business philosophy like a glove,” said Peter B. Kaufman from Intelligent Television. “Featuring the Kaltura platform in our new productions and in our research projects with moving image archives is very exciting.”

Kaltura and Intelligent Television will work on a variety of joint projects including a new documentary history of the Korean War with Jigsaw Productions and Intelligent Television’s multiyear Memory Project.

Check out our conversation with Kaltura Founder Ron Yekutiel.

Kaltura is where wiki meets YouTube says presenter Shay David. We've reviewed Kaltura before and you can also read our interview with CEO Ron Yekutiel. Kaltura allows for social video collaboration so you can create very professional videos with your friends and/or clients. Kaltura.com is only a "test" site, both Ron and Shay believe that the real power of Kaltura is in the sites it powers for it's clients.

Shay left us by noting that some major deals will be announced next week that will bring Kaltura to over 200 million users worldwide. Can't wait to get that release Shay!

Come inside for the Kaltura Demo video »

NY-based Kaltura, the online video collaboration site, is announcing a new partnership with the New York Public Library. Over 600,000 digital images can now be incorporated easily into Kaltura’s group video projects.

"We strive to provide users with the most comprehensive, enjoyable and user-friendly experience possible when creating their collaborative Kalturas in a fun, safe, and legal environment; The New York Public Library database is a huge addition to resources that we offer, both in terms of its size and the great value that it brings,” said Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO of Kaltura.

This gets Kaltura a large new base of images for users to utilize when creating their collaborative videos. Not sure how many people will want to use these types of images versus say Flickr, but any additional items for use is a good thing. We included Kaltura in our look at online video in NYC.

In IE7 (not sure about FF), I find a huge lag with Kaltura with all of their overlay windows when creating a video/Kaltura - many times I have already moved off the window and it forces me back to the beginning. No idea why they need all of the overlay windows for creation but it sure is a usability issue from my standpoint.

Adding an image from the Library collection is as easy as from Flickr and the other image sites they support. Here is an image I grabbed:

Earlier this week was the NY Video Meetup. Somewhere around 250 NY'ers attended and viewed a variety of demos and a healthy video discussion. One thing rang true throughout -- online video is HOT here in the city. So many companies, so many ideas and a amazing level of excitement/passion around online video.

Here are just a few of the companies in the online video space in the NYC area. I certainly forgot a bunch, so please leave them in the comments.

• Magnify.net - providing video upload, encoding, storage, delivery, and rev share mainly for video clips (CN Coverage)
• Blip.tv - a leader in episodic content (CN Coverage)
• 5min - moving offices to NYC next month - knowledge sharing (CN Coverage)
• Rocketboom - daily video show about anything with host Joanne Colan (CN Coverage)
• For Your Imagination - creating a variety of online-only video shows
• WallStrip - filming in NYC about stocks with host Lindsay Cambell
• Vimeo - video hoster and community creator (CN Coverage)
• ExpoTV - video reviews (CN Coverage)
• Kaltura - video collaboration (CN Coverage)
• Joost - NYC office is North American HQ - television replacement (CN Coverage)
• SavoryNY - restaurants video reviews (CN Coverage)
• WineLibraryTV - ok, he's in Jersey but we will allow it since he lives in the city - daily wine video show

While other areas of the country and the world are creating online video, NY is where it's at. Innovation, technology, people, community, it's all here. And Madison Avenue and Google are here to monetize it all.

NY-based Kaltura has received a good bit of buzz since I first reported about their presentation at the NY Video Meetup last April. Since then they have gone on to win the people's choice at Techcrunch40 and have launched a useful Facebook application. I had a chance to grab a coffee with co-founder Ron Yekutiel and here are my notes:

Ron describes Kaltura as "wiki meets YouTube". He believes there is a movement going on from text publishing to video publishing and that collaboration in the video space is where Kaltura leads the pack.

Kaltura is seeking to empower other social networks by their use of the Kaltura application. Ron says that while Kaltura.com is a destination site, the real power is how other sites use the tool within their framework.

What I get about Kaltura is that small contributions can equal big productions where everybody has a vested interest in the final product.

Ron spoke about four reasons people collaborate on video:

1. For social progression and to see interaction
2. Text is dead (Allen's note: I sure hope not!)
3. The number of contributors help to decrease the barriers to contribution
4. The swarm effect of advertising - he sees this as the new model where instead of a 1-1 advertising or many-many, companies will use collaboration to reach their desired customer

The Kaltura team has four co-founders, two are in New York and the other two are in Israel. The team totals 25 people and are in Israel. From what I gather, the leadership of Kaltura might be the most educated group I have come across. Lots of post-graduate degrees from Ivy League schools.

We spoke about the Kaltura business model which is largely based on rev share. It's an interesting model because it puts the trust in the sites using the application to report the income back as they use their own advertising not Kaltura's ad platform. For sites that don't have their own advertising platform, Kaltura can provide one with strong advertising players involved.

Ron left me with some juicy bits about the future for Kaltura but he asked me not to share them at this time. He said they are coming very soon and as soon as I can share with you, I will.

NY-based Kaltura has launched a Facebook application today. Named Friends' Video Card, it allows you to create and send greeting cards of all types to your friends on Facebook. Kaltura was named People's Choice at the TechCrunch40 conference last month. What's great about this app is that it reminds you when your friend's have an event such as a birthday. Never miss a friend's event again :)

The process of creating a card follows Kaltura's model of creating content together. You can start a card and then have your Facebook friends help with the creation process. It's almost like those office cards we send around for everyone to sign. Just kicked up several notches by adding video and rich-media together.

"Our goal is to provide users at any site with the ability to collaborate with their peers in rich media; Facebook was a natural place to start", said Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO of Kaltura. "Now Facebook users can take action as a group, and have fun sending video greeting cards to their friends without ever leaving the site. We see this as a great precedent for getting the concept of collaborative rich media and the ability to actually do it out there.”

Friends' Video Card is an example of a fun and useful application within the Facebook platform. Come inside for a sample screenshot of the application.

This just in... Kaltura has won the people's choice at Techcrunch40 and will be able to demo on stage. Congrats to them! Kaltura is a way to create video together. I will have more notes during their presentation. This is a live post, refresh for the latest news.

I saw a demo of this product back in April in NYC - here are my notes while I work on the notes from today's demo.

Live notes:

• Kaltura enables users of social networks to engage in group collaboration of rich media
• Similar to what wiki did for text
• like youtube meets wiki
• you can share videos and then everyone adds their own clips, pretty neat
• they can offer a sponsored version - showed hallmark cards as an example
• facebook greeting cards coming
• two of the first employees were from icq

Post concludes

This evening I attended my first NY Video 2.0 Meetup. Quite a large crowd (about 150ish) with most people raising their hand that this was their first video meetup. About half of the audience work for large companies (AOL, T-Mobile, etc.) and half from smaller companies and startups. A handful are from recruiting firms and a few agency people - yet not as many as I would have thought. If you are in NYC and looking for a job in the new Web space, this meetup might be for you.

Here are my notes...

• Gary (no last name) noted that his video blog is the best, even better than Ze Frank - winelibrary.com - though I had a chance to chat with him afterwards, seems pretty cool
• Brightcove had 2 people - they seem to be pretty hot in the NYC meetup scene. -- not sure why they didn't answer the questions that related to how AOL Video is working with Brightcove
• The idea of the meetup is to bring people together who are in the video scene somehow.
• Viddler recorded the event and I can post audio if someone prefers audio.

There were 4 companies presenting and here are my notes and general comments related to each one.

Rob Sandie - Viddler (viddler.com)

• We are the best way to host video online
• Our forte is longer and larger video
• Ability to seek anywhere in the video at anytime unlike YouTube
• Rob speaks about timed comments and how this differentiates and is innovative
• He shows the dashboard
• Uses 3 volunteers to show the live recording feature
• Shows their new video commenting feature - this is very cool!
• Check out our other Viddler coverage

Shay David - Kaltura (kaltura.com)

• Starts with a video which had a high production value but didn't say much frankly
• Today they are showing some brand new features
• Tagline - It's the place to create together
• 1% produce 9% might comment, 89% sit back and watch, at Kaltura they want everyone to be part of the show
• Kaltura works by allowing friends to submit videos about a topic, then the producer puts the final video together
• Flash editor - works like a simple timeline
• It seems very user-friendly
• It allows you to pull images from Flickr using CC licensing
• Their hope is to provide a platform to allow people to collaborate on creating content
• They are looking at advertising and commercial licensing for sites

Gino Yoham - AOL Video (video.aol.com)

• Starts with a discussion about something - couldn't seem to get on track with what he was saying
• He speaks about "truveo" and their search product - sounds like AOL acquired them
• Their portal is just an index of video - videos play inside AOL (not sure I like that)
• Next he shows their widget and all of the big video companies are using truveo search
• Overall it looks like AOL's video strategy is to be a search engine for video - I can't say that I was "wow'd" by this presentation. I would love to understand if this is the overall strategy on video or just the search piece? 

James Tilsner from Tilzy.tv (tilzy.tv)

• They just launched - 2 people in the company
• Their vision is to be an entertainment guide to the Web
• They identify what they think is the new entertainment media
• Exploration and discovery - they built a surfing guide experience
• Basically it is a way to tag the brand
• It's an editorial - not exactly sure what James meant by this
• We want to cover this new entertainment medium like Entertainment Weekly would
• Believes it is important to drive traffic to the producer's brand
• My commentary would be that this product needs a lot of work before it can be mainstream. The audience had some good ideas for these guys, I hope they were listening!
• I think the concern here is that it's a completely manual process but could become a directory of video... but what gets in? how quickly can they get content in there. Would the VT massacre have been listed in news as quickly as it was on CNN?
• The two guys have great positive attitudes and that should help them as they grow