Kaltura

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Kaltura is a software company based in New York which was founded in 2006. Its development team is based in Israel.

Kaltura's technology allows users to interact and collaborate in rich-media, for example, their video platform supports group-video making and peer production of rich-media. The main components of Kaltura's online video platform are based on open-source software, enabling any site to add advanced video and rich-media capabilities, and share content across the Kaltura Network of remixable content based on creative commons licensing.

Concept

The concept is built on the collaborative Wiki model but uses media rather than text. Sites can add video capabilities using Kaltura’s hosted services, download the open source community edition, or install self-serve video packages for web-platforms such as MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc. Using Kaltura’s technology, users can create videos by combining existing uploaded media from sharing sites such as MySpace or YouTube with CreativeCommons or public domain sources such as Flickr, ccMixter, Jamendo, and The New York Public Library. [ [http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=05DD3784-44A3-4DC1-9FC7-55A0AC5BBBB7 The New York Public Library and Kaltura partner for media collaboration - Computer Business Review ] ] Media that can then be embedded and played elsewhere on the Internet.

History

Kaltura was founded in the fall of 2006 by Ron Yekutiel (CEO as of 2008), Shay David (CTO as of 2008), Michal Tsur (President as of 2008) and Eran Etam (a co-founder of ICQ, Kaltura's Vice President of Research & Development as of 2008). [http://corp.kaltura.com/about/leadership (accessed August 6, 2008)]

Kaltura was launched at the TechCrunch40 industry event in San Francisco on September 18, 2007, and won the People’s Choice award based on a vote of the conference's attendees.Mark Hendrickson: [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/18/kaltura-wins-spot-as-40th-company-at-techcrunch40/ Kaltura Wins Spot as 40th Company at TechCrunch40] TechCrunch, September 18, 2007] At that time, the company had 20 employees, and had received 2.1 million dollars in funding from business angels and Californian VC fund "Avalon Ventures".

On December 21, 2007, Kaltura won the People’s Choice award (over 250,000 users participated in voting) in the Video Sharing category for the Mashable Open Web Awards. [cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2007/12/21/open-web-awards-winners/|date=2007-12-21|title=Open Web Awards: Final Winners Announced!|publisher=Mashable] In 2008, Kaltura was selected as one of "10 of the most exciting Israeli start ups" by the.co.ils [http://www.tws2008.com/] , and as one of the "Global 250 Winners" by AlwaysOn [ [http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/27959 "AO Global 250 Winners"] July 17, 2008] . Kaltura CEO and cofounder Ron Yekutiel was photographed for the article "The Suit, Vers. 3.0" in Esquire Magazine's July 2008 edition. [ [http://www.esquire.com/style/fashion-story/suits-0708 The Suit, Version 3.0] "Esquire Magazine" online, July 7, 2008]

In January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation and Kaltura announced that they had begun a collaboration aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. [ [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Invites_Users_to_Take_Part_in_Open%2C_Collaborative_Video_Experiment Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment] . Wikimedia press release, January 17, 2008] The technology behind this project is a form of video-wiki software (open source and still in beta) that is integrated into the Mediawiki platform as an extension, 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.

Kaltura was a sponsor of the Wikimania 2008 event, where it announced that it is sponsoring Michael Dale, an open source video developer, to support the further development of a 100% open source video editing solution integrated into MediaWiki. [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/]

Kaltura also has several Facebook applications. [ [http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9798513-2.html Kaltura's new Facebook app sends friends video e-cards | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone ] ] [ [http://mashable.com/2007/12/03/kaltura-group-albums-facebook-application/ Ask Facebook Friends for Missing Pictures with Kaltura Group Albums ] ]

Products

Kaltura products include video players, video editors (including a collaborative video editor), a content management system, a WordPress plugin, a Drupal extension, a Mediawiki extension, and Ruby and PHP frameworks.

References

External links

* [http://www.kaltura.com Kaltura - Open Source Video Platform]
*Yochai Benkler: [http://www.kaltura.com/blog/2007/10/17/love-or-money/ Love or money?] , Kaltura's blog, October 17, 2007. Commentary by Professor Benkler (a Kaltura adviser) on Kaltura's view of the human motivation for creative online collaboration (see also Carr-Benkler wager)
*" [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Invites_Users_to_Take_Part_in_Open%2C_Collaborative_Video_Experiment Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment. Kaltura, Wikimedia Foundation and WikiEducator announce a beta program to allow users to create collaborative video and other forms of rich media] " Press release, January 17, 2008
** [http://wikieducator.org/Help:Collaborative_video Wikieducator's Collaborative Video page]
** [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Collaborative_Video Wikimedia Foundation's Collaborative Video page]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura Kaltura's GPL licenced code at Sourceforge]
** [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-January/037829.html Kaltura's software code hopes for 2008 according to its Chief Technical Officer]
* [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=213701 Kaltura’s Video-wiki extension for the MediaWiki software]
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kaltura-interactive-video/ Kaltura’s Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress]

Articles

* [http://corp.kaltura.com/news Full news coverage on Kaltura’s corporate site]
* [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/26/techcrunch40-presenters-traffic-two-months-in/ TechCrunch] November 26, 2007
* [http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=05DD3784-44A3-4DC1-9FC7-55A0AC5BBBB7 Computer Business Review] November 22, 2007
* [http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/18/mint-wins-techcrunch-latest-start-ups-mego-wixi-xtr3d-flowplay/ Venture Beat] September 28, 2007
* [http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6315 ZDNet] September 19th, 2007
* [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/01/in-the-company-of-innovators/ BuzzMachine] October 1st, 2007
* [http://blog.gartner.com/blog/media.php?itemid=2709 Gartner] 28 September, 2007
* [http://www.artfilmtalk.com/24-shay-david-kaltura/ Interview with Shay David, CTO and Co-Founder, Kaltura] (audio) December 24th, 2007
* [http://mashable.com/2008/08/04/kaltura-wordpress/ Mashable] August 4, 2008
* [http://ostatic.com/165472-blog/kaltura-gets-funding-expands-its-open-source-video-efforts Ostatic] June 18th, 2008
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061800732.html Washington Post] June 18th 2008
* [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9918865-16.html CNET] April 14th, 2008