Just an FYI - for those in the London area that are keen, there is a Facebook Garage user group tomorrow night (November 11th) which I'll be presenting at. I'm going to spend my 15 minutes of fame looking at how Facebook and Brightcove can combine to be a powerful tool in both the Push and Pull video syndication models. I'll post my slides up her...
Tonight our technology partner Drupal will be hosting a Drupal for Marketing event here in London. You can see details about it here: http://drupal4marketing2009.eventbrite.com/ A couple of Brightcovers are going over to participate and we thought it would be fun to follow in the footsteps of Manchester City FC and live broadcast part of the...
I've been reading a great post by fellow Brightcove Blogger Chris Little over at our Ecosystem blogroll about how Brightcove Players have been whitelisted by Facebook. This essentially means that a user can share a video from your player/site and have it appear in their FB Newsfeed for immediate inline playback. I have need of such an integ...
The series so far: Introduction - http://blog.brightcove.com/en/2009/10/video-encoding-101-series The Beginning -http://blog.brightcove.com/en/2009/10/video-encoding-101-beginning So....
The series so far: Introduction - http://blog.brightcove.com/en/2009/10/video-encoding-101-series So to start any discussion we need to begin with the fundamentals. Specifically what is the process of video encoding? Or even more generally what is encoding and how does it apply to Online Video? At its very fundament...
It seems we've finally hit that critical mass. The novelty of online video is starting to wear off quickly and we're now left with acceptance and expectation from the the online community that a website must have video as a core component of its design and offering. Services such as the iPlayer and Hulu have made catch up TV the primar...
I received a comment on a past post I did in April looking at creating a custom BEML component that allowed a player to be controlled via the keyboard.