Kaltura Archive

We’ve covered NY-based Kaltura several times over the past couple of years. Kaltura describes their service as, “allow(ing) publishers of all sizes to easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their web site with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising.”

Today Kaltura has announced the launch of the Kaltura Exchange marketplace. The marketplace is basically a platform to build apps and integrations on top of the Kaltura service. The company compares the Kaltura Marketplace to the Salesforce Force.com platform and the Apple iPhone/iPadd App Store.

Developers and other video services can build plugins, extensions and applications – both can be offered as free or paid options for users.

Some of the initial launch partners include: Adap.tv, Tremor Media, TubeMogul, PLYmedia, Artivision and MindTouch. Marketplace examples include a Google Analytics app and the TubeMogul premium paid syndication app.

Last October, NY-based college review service Unigo announced a partnership with the WSJ to create “WSJ On Campus.” The service is described as, ““WSJ On Campus takes you into the dorms, classrooms and back offices to illuminate what goes on behind the scenes, with Journal reporters, current college students and noted experts providing their perspectives on every topic.”

Today NY-based Kaltura announced that they will be powering the video channel for Unigo and the WSJ On Campus partnership. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed although it is great to see more New York startups working together.

“When we created Unigo.com it was clear that video would be a huge part of what we were trying to achieve. Kaltura’s platform is a clear choice – it is extremely flexible, has advanced user-generated-content features, and the Kaltura team has great experience in supporting video both for social networks and for institutions in the Education space.” said Jordan Goldman, Unigo Founder and CEO.

The suite of Kaltura’s video tools will be available for students in the Unigo community. This partnership should do well for both companies since video reviews are a very important piece of Unigo’s overall offering.

Typically those in Red Sox land do not partner with those in Yankee land, but an announcement hit my inbox this morning that shows that Internet startups can put aside baseball lines for the greater good of the Internet.

NY-based online video platform provided Kaltura has announced a new partnership with Boston-based social software provider Mzinga. The partnership will, “provide enhanced video, photo and audio capabilities within the Mzinga OmniSocial platform”. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.

The partnership brings Kaltura’s enterprise video solution to Mzinga’s OmniSocial platform. “We are seeing an increased demand for integrated video in the enterprise, across a broad range of functional areas,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. The idea is to help Mzinga’s customers easily integrate video functionality into their communities.

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: