Kaltura Archive

NY-based online video collaboration tool Kaltura is announcing a partnership with WNET today. WNET is the parent of PBS stations Thirteen and WLIW in NYC. If my memory serves me, Thirteen is the most watched PBS station in the country and WLIW notes they are third most watched in the country.

Kaltura notes that their technology has been deployed on Worldfocus.org, the website for WNET’s nightly news program, allowing users to participate in an online video conversation about international news items and issues from around the world.

Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.ORG said, “In addition to leaning back and watching the broadcast, we wanted to give people a chance to lean forward and get involved, join the discussion and share their opinions face-to-face through our “Talk to US” feature.

What’s interesting is that it’s not just the NYC community that can participate in the videos but anyone from around the world. Should make for some interesting conversations. We’ve seen many news organizations starting to experiment with drawing their viewers into the conversation. Fox is always pushing Twitter and CNN has their iReport video submission service. We will continue to see this trend continue as all of this new content is monetizable without the same level of effort as in traditional media.

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!

Here is 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)
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