Kaltura

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Kaltura.com
Image:Kaltura Logo.png

Collaborative Rich-Media Editing
URL www.kaltura.com
Commercial? Yes
Registration Optional
Launched 18 Sept 2007
Current status Active

Kaltura is a software company based in New York. It specializes in collaborative rich-media, such as group-video making, or peer production of rich-media. The main components of Kaltura's online video platform are based on open-source software, and the company is in the process of converting its entire platform to open-source.

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[edit] Concept

The concept is built on the collaborative Wiki model but uses media rather than text. Users can create videos on the company site by combining existing uploaded media from sharing sites such as MySpace or YouTube with CreativeCommons or public domain sources such as Flickr, ccMixter, Jamendo, and The New York Public Library.[1] The outcome is media that can then be embedded and played elsewhere on the Internet.

[edit] History

Kaltura was launched at the TechCrunch40 industry event in San Francisco on September 18, 2007, and won the People’s Choice award.[2] On December 21, 2007, Kaltura won the People’s Choice award (over 250,000 users participated in voting) in the Video Sharing category for the Mashable Open Web Awards.[3]

Kaltura also has several Facebook applications.[4][5]

In January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation and Kaltura announced that they had begun a collaboration aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites.[6] The technology behind this project is a form of video-wiki software (open source and still in beta) that is integrated into the Mediawiki platform as an extension, allowing users to add collaborative video players that enable all users to add and edit images, sounds, diagrams, animations and movies in the same manner as they do today with text.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The New York Public Library and Kaltura partner for media collaboration - Computer Business Review
  2. ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/kaltura-wins-spot-as-40th-company-at- techcrunch40/
  3. ^ Open Web Awards: Final Winners Announced!. Mashable (2007-12-21).
  4. ^ Kaltura's new Facebook app sends friends video e-cards | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
  5. ^ Ask Facebook Friends for Missing Pictures with Kaltura Group Albums
  6. ^ Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment. Wikimedia press release, January 17, 2008

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