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KickApps and Akamai are teaming up to take on video publishing. KickApps brings the ability to create and manage custom video players with excellent social features. Akamai comes in with the ability to easily automate digital distribution systems while providing enterprise-level video distribution. Put them both together, and what results is an app-kicking combination!

Just like that certain city that never sleeps, Bitrix hardly takes a break. Shortly after the recent release of a new version of its Site Manager, Bitrix is in the news again. This time, the CMS vendor announces the addition of Media Player to its WCM platform, which will enable customers to embed video and audio streams into their web sites.

Video has quickly become one of the fastest growing media formats on the Internet, and that seems like a logical thing to occur. It makes sense that a company would attempt to integrate an interactive video solution into WordPress and Kaltura is the first solution that we’ve seen to address this. It is a decent try, but it is far from perfect.

Traditionally reserved for awarding the best in television advertising, the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival awarded a Grand Prix for a viral online video, as well, as a cyber campaign. And a groundbreaking Japanese online effort for a clothing retailer won the most coveted creative prize of all, the Titanium Grand Prix.

What has happened to television advertising? It’s gone online and become interactive, that’s what.

Micro-blogging is getting a bit of a lift today as Six Apart announces a new application – well, new to the iPhone at least. Six Apart’s BlogIt application for Facebook is now available for the Apple iPhone. Is this just the beginning of a long line of applications that will propel us forever into the world of twitter-dom?

Enterprise Content Management provider Vignette has announced new video products designed to help organizations deliver an immersive and video-centric Web experience. The products, Vignette Video services and the latest incarnation of Vignette’s Rich Media Services, let organizations streamline video management and put it center stage in their overall Web strategy. These additions should lead to increased viewer time spent on site, improved customer engagement and more revenue using video as a significant source of site content.

CMS Watch has a new report out that many organizations are sure to want to read. It’s called The XML & Component Content Management Report 2008 and it’s review of the leading Component Content Management vendors and XML tools on the market today. With all the conversations happening around DITA today and the number of vendors coming out with XML-based solutions, you need to understand the market well to know how to work within it.

Mochila, global online media marketplace innovator has launched Video Player 2.0. Poised to deliver “multiple, related videos revolving within the same player”, it aims to be an asset to those looking to improve user engagement and sustainability.

With the ability to support full-screen displays, pre-roll and translucent overlay advertising, audiences are sure to revel in engaging, high-quality videos, while publishers benefit from a free ad-supported video tool for building their business.

The Interwoven enterprise content management product suite has been getting quite a lift this last week or so with announcements coming out of their GearUp Conference on new product enhancements and partnership opportunities.

One of these new partnerships is with a company called Informative Graphics (IGC). IGC specializes in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology and they have created something special for Interwoven WorkSite.

Faster than you can say British Broadcasting Corporation, Mochila has announced their newest endeavor.

Mochila, the first global online media marketplace for text, photo, and video content is now partnering with Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM), the leading provider of locally-focused Web solutions for television and radio broadcasters.

Through this partnership, BIM will provide Mochila’s high-quality rights-managed content directly to TV and radio stations in the 120 markets served by BIM.

Adobe has joined the ranks of the social media product suppliers with the announcement of it’s Flash Media Server 3 product line.

Open source firm Editopia has just announced the release of NCode.

This is a server-side video encoding offering. Web developers can add video, in any format, to Flash. Under the General Public License, it costs zip zero.

NCode is cross-platform friendly and supports multiple codecs, including H.264, and PHP and Java programming environments.

Editopia may soon release an enterprise edition with support, as well as indemnification and rights for fee-based codecs.

CYA is clearly into long-term sustainability. Having brought records management integrity to IBM’s FileNet, then addressed Smart Recovery for EMC, the company is now tackling recycle bin solutions for the enterprise.

CYA Recycle Bin is a hosted self-restore solution for enterprise CMS users. Its intention is to guard against information loss at the user, administrative and system levels sans system or application downtime.

In short, the Recycle Bin enables you to restore accidental deletions of documents or folders you shouldn’t be getting rid of. It also renders users independent of admins, who typically need to approve information restoration — generally the last thing on their minds.

Tuesday morning at ad:tech Chicago, big brands like YouTube and Yahoo debated the likelihood that the Holy Grail, sought after by everyone from Indiana Jones to Tom Hanks, is (and perhaps always has been) in the unlikely hands of advertisers.

With every new medium comes a wave of schizophrenic behavior in which old media titans express fear, reproach and occasional audacity at a “threat” that has seen no equal in history.

San Diego based Streamload provides the storage space and Taiwan’s Cyberlink provides the software. A match made in heaven for producing, storing and sharing videos on the web?