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Not so Bright-cove
After announcing a few months ago that they were shutting down Brightcove.TV, Brightcove has now announced that they will be discontinuing their ad-supported free version.
The upwards jump is scary..from $0/year, you’re now faced with $6000/year.
I remember a recent interview when Jeremy Allaire said: “We’ve made multiple bets, and the platform side won.”
Obviously, some publishers...
Tags: brightcove 3, brightcove basic
Obamania
I say this on a personal note, acknowledging that some of you might feel otherwise, including some folks over at Marcellus, but I need to say this:
It is not a political fever that has gripped the world. It is Obamania that has the world glued to their TV sets today, and it is because of Obama that the world is paying attention to McCain. If Joe Lieberman was running against McCain, then McCain wouldn’t...
Tags: obama
Chrome=Windows, Rebooted. Microsoft=Google, Rebooted.
Just found this brilliant image at OneComics.
I’m not sure that Federico Fieni realizes how beautifully he’s merged art with technology. And art is always open to interpretation, so my interpretation is:
Chrome is the new Windows.
Instead of a PC equipped with an OS + Application stack, you now have a browser equipped with an Internet connection + web services stack.
The choice of colors...
What search engines think of us…today.
Head on to over to Google search, Yahoo search, Ask.com, and Windows Live search….type in “SaaS video platform“. Interesting to see that we’re already way up there in the results, despite folks like Ooyala, Delve, and many others in the space.
Interesting..because we don’t do much SEO, so if anyone has thoughts on how we’re up there, then do let us know.
Google...
I like to move it..move it.
We just decided that our player looks nicer without the chrome scrubber area.
Check out the Madagascar trailer here.
What do you guys think?
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Tags: chrome-less, flash video player
A little PHP re-compilation tip
We had to do a re-compilation of our PHP installation earlier today, to add in a few extensions. After a lot of Google-ing, we didn’t find anything about this, but someone helped us out(thanks, Sunil!).
So, if you need to re-compile your existing PHP installation, and retain your earlier extensions/settings, do the following:
find the config.nice file on your system
edit it to add in the...
API
A number of you have asked us over the last few days, if there is a Marcellus API.
Which tells us:
Setting up a classy workflow is still a problem
upload, content management, customization, and publishing are fundamental challenges for many
The work flow needs to be ubiquitous
it’s one thing to use workflow on Marcellus. It’s quite another to be able to access the same workflow on...
Tags: api
The (media) democracy that never was.
When Time Magazine nominated You as the person of the year in 2006, the notion that resonated was that YouTube had methodically deconstructed every notion we had about content production, consumption and distribution.
We now had the tools to create and express ourselves freely(Blogger/YouTube), the ubiquity that made content accessible(broadband internet/RSS feeds/device independence), and the ability...
Tags: media democracy
The TechCrunch Effect
We just got featured on TechCrunch, and of course, the effect was that traffic went through the roof. We had a fairly decent number of folks asking us questions, and a good number of people wanting a trial account.
So- thank you, TechCrunch, for this opportunity and exposure. We’re very grateful(inspite of my usual bitchy behavior w/ M.A.).
There are some interesting things being said on the...
Tags: marcellus, techcrunch
Adobe adds adaptive bandwidth streaming to Flash player 10
Just learned, via NewTeeVee that Adobe just launched Flash (Player) 10..with the capability to deliver adaptive bandwidth streaming.
I assume that bit is useful only for folks using Flash media server(or a comparative streaming server like Wowza/Red5) to stream their content. Of course, we’ll do some more looking into this now, and see how we can leverage Flash 10.
In the meantime, if you want...
