Topic - Online Video & wiki
Can User-Generated Video Work as a Business Model? Interview with Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Wikipedia CEO and Co-Founder Jimmy Wales at the adtech conference and asks: Can consumer-generated media (CGM) work as a monetizeable business model for video like it has for text? What are the challenges with incorporating video into public Wikis? And, can traditional news companies use the wiki model for incorporating CGM video and build back their own news communities, or are the challenges too great? A special report from the ad:tech conference in San Francisco.
Kaltura.com the Do-It-Yourself Video Solution?
Some of us are the do-it-yourself types or don’t have a huge budget to implement a solution from some of the major providers of online video delivery systems. Some of us just need to get our hands dirty and some of us are proponents of Open Source and all that it has to offer. In the realm of online video delivery Kaltura looks like the place that these people turn to.
Search Engines Use UGC to Improve Video Search
As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video.
Just this past weekend, Metacafe announced a new feature and beta wiki platform called Wikicafe beta program. With this new program, registered users will be able to collaborate with online videos and will have the ability to edit, enhance, and even translate video tags, descriptions, and other types of metadata. You can translate the metadata into one of 6 different languages (Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, German, and Hebrew).
So, the real question is… what is the driving force behind the decision to add these user generated content (UGC) features to online video websites? Are Youtube and Metacafe simply doing their best to add cool new features that users have asking for? Or, is there another reason for these new features?
Wikipedia Adds Online Video with Kaltura
Wikimedia is partnering with the collaborative video service Kaltura to start rolling out video to Wikimedia sites. Wikimedia and Kaltura have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. The vision of this project is to enable the Wikipedia community to further enhance and enrich Wikipedia articles with rich-media content. Think of this technology as a form of video-wiki software that is integrated into the Mediawiki platform, 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. By incorporating rich media, Wikipedia and other wiki projects will be able to further enhance the quality and richness of their content and truly surpass any existing encyclopedia in the world.
Video Conversion & Encoding Tools for Video SEO
There are tons of tools available out there for video conversion and encoding. Thanks to Blinkx.com, we have a few recommendations to start with.
How to Create Videos without a Video Camera
Here is a great post that I found from Paul Nilsen at paulnilsen.com.
Eurekster Adds Video to Social Search Swicki With blinkx Partnership
“Powered by the Community: Social Search Meets Video Search”
Eurekster today announces the availability of custom social video search and a video buzzcloud widget featuring best-of-breed video content from blinkx. Eurekster is a pioneer and leader in providing a custom search experience and a content discovery engine that provides relevant, targeted, community-driven results – to increase search relevance and value for site visitors, Web publishers and “infopreneurs.”
Video SEO Wiki – BlinkxWiki
This is a great site with updated information from BlinkX on how best to optimize video content for search engines.
