<videovortex> XMedia Lab (Melbourne) - “DIY TV”: Video, UGC, Mobile and IP TV content and services.

[Seth Keen]

The commercially orientated XMedia Lab held a conference in  
(Melbourne) in August on “DIY TV”: Video, UGC, Mobile and IP TV  
content and services. http://www.xmedialab.com/drupal/?q=node/16 The  
key notes from international guests are available on video http://www.adikted.tv/tech/x-media-lab/show/315588564/

The focus tended to be mainly around online video with some consistent  
themes emerging across the keynotes. User generated content featured  
in most of the presentations along with the objective to attach  
advertising to video in as many ways as possible. Also, almost every  
speaker saw YouTube as being a centralised  repository of video that  
cannot be matched. Therefore strategies included setting up publishing  
mechanisms that distribute video content out to as many major  
platforms as possible with the idea of trying to pick up return traffic.

There is a lot of funding being put towards elaborate online video  
players and social viewing platforms. My notes on these on my blog:

http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/abc-multiplatform/ (ABC iview  
player)
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/04/american-fim-institute/
The Kangaroo Project in the UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(video_on_demand)
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/view2together/

best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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