Silverlight News out of MIX

Lots of new details on Silverlight coming out of the Microsoft Mix conference in Vegas including a major initiative by CBS that will integrate Silverlight into affiliate websites.

From the CBS Press Release:

“Central to our ‘Always On’ strategy has been the desire to create an
interactive environment where our audiences can participate in the local
broadcast process,” said [...]

Highlights from MediaPost’s Outfront Conference

MediaPost has made videos from the various sessions of their Outfront conference available online.

Watch Jeremy Allaire’s keynote address, where he introduced some new variations on an advertising revenue model, and some passionate debate between Brightcove’s Adam Gerber and Broadband Enterprises‘ Matt Wasserlauf during the Broadband TV session. Rounding out the panel was Starcom’s Jeff Marshal, [...]

The Most Viewed Dem Debate Clip…Mike Gravel?

With 143,000 views in 4 days – YouTube has made Mike Gravel relevant – if not entirely credible. While most news outlets focused on the strength of John Edwards following the debate, a clip of Gavel’s feisty remarks was making the rounds on Youtube. In a Washington Post editorial, Joel Achenbach compared the lively Gravel [...]

Revver Goes P2P

Revver and Intent MediaWorks have entered into a content sharing agreement in which Revver and Intent will syndicate user generated content to each other.

The agreement allows Revver to legally syndicate content over peer-to-peer networks and monetize these additional viewers while expanding the offering of Revver with Intent’s content.

CEO Steven Starr discusses the deal in a [...]

Copyright Infringement Handled with Class

As some of you may have noticed, we removed the videos comparing the quality of the Brightcove player to the quality of the YouTube player.

Unfortunately for us, we had used a clip from Sunday night’s baseball game between the Red Sox and Yankees. And, no, we didn’t have permission to use it. We received [...]