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Overlay.tv gets an API, labs sandbox

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:28:13 +0000

Overlay.tv, a service that lets users add links, images, and even other videos on top of Web video has a new API for developers to build applications on top of its technology. The company has also put out a new labs page where developers can promote their applications and see what others have built.

One of the early stars of the bunch is a special YouTube uploader built using Adobe AIR. It lets you upload videos from your desktop without having to use YouTube’s Web-based uploader. Once a file is up and hosted on YouTube you can then create and design overlays right inside of the application, which compared to YouTube’s annotation system is a little more advanced.

Another fun labs creation is a karaoke player that’s been built into children’s Web site Kidz Bop. Overlay has taken the site’s existing player and added on-screen lyrics, which users can view at the same time they’re recording themselves singing. It’s also put together links to related sites and services that have been vetted as kid-friendly.

I still prefer VideoClix.tv‘s approach to on-screen overlays. The service is a little more subtle about the things that are added to a video, letting you view a video without the overlays, and only pulling them up when you mouse over the selected item. However, its solution is not nearly as consumer-friendly as Overlay.tv’s, which with this platform will let any site or service tack on its functionality to existing video tools.

The YouTube uploader lets you send video files from your desktop straight to YouTube, then add on-screen links and annotations, all using Adobe AIR.

(Credit: Overlay.tv)

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ActivIdentity To Address ID 360 Market Segments

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:21 +0000

Under ActivIdentity’s new solutions strategy, the company will leverage its identity assurance platform and credential management system to apply a common approach to registration / enrollment, authentication, authorization, auditing, credential issuance / management, and use of credentials across each of the ID 360 market segments. This approach takes into account that organizations in all ID 360 market segments require the assurance of a trusted chain of identity that allows them to conduct their day-to-day business in the digital age with the same level of confidence as face-to-face transactions.

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From Enterprise to Cloud, Virtualization Today on SYS-CON.TV

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:19 +0000

Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who joined me in the 4th Floor Reuters TV Studio overlooking Times Square in New York City for a special SYS-CON.TV “Virtualization Power Panel.”

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Google Apps To Offer Video to Premier Edition Users

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:17 +0000

Is there a market for YouTube for business? We’ll soon all find out, because Google is now offering a new Video tag to Premier Edition users of Google Apps – allowing for the easy embedding of videos in internal Web pages, along with functionality allowing for comment on videos, add descriptions and tags, search for any video to which they have access or download videos to their laptops or phones.

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AJAX RIA Expo – Yahoo & Intel Partner on Web-Enabling TV

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:15 +0000

Yahoo and Intel have partnered to go into the widget business together and create a web-enabled interactive TV channel populated with picture-in-a-picture RIA widgetry like Flickr, Blockbuster, Twitter, e-mail, Yahoo Finance, eBay auctions, news and sports.

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"Virtualization Power Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:10 +0000

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV ‘Virtualization Power Panel’ recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON’s 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo – which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.

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LinMin API Adds Bare Metal Provisioning All Around

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:08 +0000

A new API is supposed to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.2 into environments that haven’t been able to do bare metal provisioning of Windows, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines before. The rev also features single-command installation.

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Steve Jobs Not Dying, Press Figures

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:06 +0000

Apple telling the press that the state of its CEO’s health is a ‘private matter’ was like waving a red cape in front of a bull. Within hours Fortune and the New York Times were reporting that the 53-year-old cancer survivor probably wasn’t dying – as everyone had surmised by his emaciated appearance at the iPhone G3 introduction last month.

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Virtualization – Parallels Claims To Be Unaffected by Hyper-V’s Backwash

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:04 +0000

Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov sent around his response to Microsoft’s surprise release of Hyper-V last week: ‘While he figures it’ll lower the barriers to server virtualization adoption – and tear a piece out of VMware’s hide – ‘the breath of 20 deployments will still be fairly narrow the feature set of Hyper-V is limited…with no support for Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD.’

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Schematic Silverlight-Based Online Video Channel to Bring Coverage of the 2008 Olympics

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:02 +0000

Schematic announced its development of a Web video player anchoring NBC’s online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com on MSN. The announcement was made by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics, and Trevor Kaufman, CEO of Schematic. The player debuts this week with live, streaming coverage of the U.S. Olympic trials.

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