Kaltura News & Articles

Publishers that wish to take advantage of Kaltura's (news, site) open-source video platform to push their own services can now sign up with Kaltura's recently-launched Partner Program. Targeted at resellers, system integrators OEMs, media consultants and marketing agencies, the Partner Program provides a white-label edition of Kaltura's commercial offering.

This week sees the National Association of Broadcasters show take place in Las Vegas. It's the place to find out what's happening in Internet broadcasting alongside other TV and film technologies.

A rash of investment deals have taken place in the last few days, throwing funding at web companies that venture capitalists think will make it big in the near future.

Kaltura (news, site) launches the latest version of its open source community edition and adds Amazon back-end power.

The Open World Forum (news, site), a conference around the technological, financial and social impact of open technologies, has announced that they're looking for competitors for their Demo Cup competition.

The latest upgrade to Accordent’s (news, site)  Media Management System (AMMS) extends the video content platform by giving enterprises out-of-the box integration with content delivery networks (CDNs), enabling them to control how video content is delivered across enterprises.

If Kyte (news, site) was looking to become a video platform to reckon with when it upgraded in January, then the announcement that it has extended cross-platform support to bring social video to Facebook (news, site) should help it down that road very nicely.

Tiki's (news, site) rampant expansion continues with the addition of a range of collaboration services for its groupware users.

Kaltura Exchange (news, site) is providing a trading post for those creating apps using the open-source video platform.

Though Kyte (news, site) originally launched as a consumer-focused video product, the company has been aggressively expanding their services for their Tier 1 clients. Hoping to become an online video platform provider to reckon with, today’s release of Kyte Console 2.0 offers improved content management as well as some nifty new features.  

Kaltura (news, site) is making a number of moves lately with its open source video platform. After being listed as one of 10 Innovative Application Companies Under $100M to Watch by IDC you probably expected to start seeing things happening. And happening they are.

Kaltura's online video platform is going more places as of today. Mzinga (news, site) has integrated Kaltura's enterprise video solution into their OmniSocialTM social software platform.
 

Research firm IDC has a new list you might want to pay attention to: 10 Innovative Application Companies Under $100M to Watch.

"IDC has projected 2009 as a year of accelerated adoption of new business models for applications, including software as a service and open source, as well as Web 2.0 capabilities and functionality," says Michael Fauscette, group vice president, Software Business Solutions, IDC.

To pull this list together, they solicited entries from vendors who make enterprise software. Vendors had to meet the financial criteria and demonstrate one or more aspects of three key trends, including Web 2.0 capabilities in the Enterprise, SaaS, BPO or open source solutions, and new business models for software use by service providers. The selection critiria came from the  IDC's Worldwide Applications 2008 Top 10 Predictions.

So who made the list? There are more than a couple of names we recognize, with a particular focus on social computing: Jive Software, Telligent, Atlassian, Kaltura and Trampoline Systems Ltd., among others. There's no specific order to the list, in case you are wondering.

IDC profiles each of the 10 companies in this 9 page report -- that'll run you US$ 3500.

Interesting to note that Atlassian, Jive and Telligent also made Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.

This is just further evidence of the growing strength of social software in the enterprise and its potential to displace content management as a key technology.

New York-based FeedRoom (news, site) has just launched a ‘lite’ version of its SaaS Enterprise Video Platform v4.0(EVP) demonstrating the competition that exists in the market to provide enterprises with video as a marketing tool.

The new product -- Enterprise Communication Channel Package -- is based on the FeedRoom 4.0 EVP, and gives user’s access to a number of different a lightweight, user-customizable video players.

The announcement by The FeedRoom (news, site) that it has teamed up with 3Play Media is the most recent step by the provider of Web video and digital media solutions to broaden the appeal of its Enterprise Video Platform (EVP).

This new partnership will give The FeedRoom another edge by providing its EVP with the ability to produce high-quality video captions in compliance with Section 508 of the  American Rehabilitation Act. This regulation obliges organizations, particularly in the public sector, to make information available to people with special needs or disabilities.