Market Predictions for Online Video Platform Companies - TMCnet's Business Video eNews

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12/21/2011

Featured Articles » Motorola Solutions Teams with Atlanta's Police Department to Power Integrated Surveillance System » MIXMOOV SAS Showcases Innovative Video Editing Technology at the Business Video Expo » Business Video Analytics to Earn $900 Million by 2016 » Vringo Closes a Round of Financing Totaling $3.35 Million   Sponsored By: Business Video Expo The Business Video Expo highlights the latest strategies and technologies available to executives who are serious about leveraging emerging video communications capabilities to build competitive advantage. By bringing together the industry's most innovative video technology vendors with end-users who are pioneering the use of video in the corporate environment, The Business Video Expo mirrors a burgeoning market no longer just a corporate novelty with a growing appetite for learning the best practices in implementing video to make business communications more engaging and effective.   Top Stories » Avail-TVN Deploys VidScale's MediaWarp to Improve Its Video Service » Thwapr Creating Waves Among National Carriers with Increased Number of Approvals » ipCapital Group Enables Augme Technologies to Finalize Its 2012 Strategy for IP Portfolio » Vzaar to Host High Def Videos on Virgin Games' Revamped Site   From The Expert Corner December 21, 2011 Market Predictions for Online Video Platform Companies - An Interview by Paul Ritter with Kris Drey from VidCompare By Paul Ritter Vice Presidentof Research and Marketing, Interactive Media Strategies 2011 has been a year of significant change taking place in the business video marketplace, particularly when it comes to big announcements from major players (Adobe's move away from development of its Flash player for mobile devices to focus on HTML5 technology) and acquisitions of some of the long-standing vendors in the enterprise video space (Accordent's acquisition by Polycom (News - Alert), Qumu's acquisition by Rimage and Fliqz' acquisition by VBrick in the first part of this year).  2012 is likely to be a continuation of this period of major change in the world of online video, and to get some thoughts and insights from an industry expert that really has his finger on the pulse of the online video space and almost every vendor in it, we turned to Kris Drey, the founder of VidCompare.  Drey has been in the online video space for many years, as vice president of product and marketing at Fliqz, where he has had the opportunity to watch the online video platform space become increasingly crowded and complex. Drey also spent 6 years building and managing comparison engines at CNET Networks (News - Alert) as a way of creating an unbiased, fair and deeply informative interactive directory of online video platform providers... Read More   From The Blogs Skype offering Free WiFi for Christmas Season December 19, 2011 By: Tom Keating The Christmas holiday season is one of the busiest travel times of the year. As such, many of us will be in airports around the country waiting for our flight to depart. This is a perfect time to crack open your laptop, iPad, or other device and IM or talk with your Skype buddies and family members. e.g. "Hey mom, my flight was delayed an hour. So swing by the airport an hour later to pick me up." Skype is offering free Skype Wi-Fi in participating airports across the U.S. from December 21st to 27th. As part of the promotion, Skype is asking Skype users to tweet with the hashtag #freeskypewifi and tell them how free Skype Wi-Fi made your travels a little more enjoyable. Check out the interactive map to see… Read More    Featured Videos Adding Value to Calls with Adornments    Featured Resources » The Benefits of Cloud-based Telephony » Next-Generation Revenue Generation » How to Build a NOC & Help Desk Without Going Broke!   TMCnet's Blogs » Windows 8 CPU Slow Benchmarks! » Dell Support Website is Down » Data Consumption Comparison: Microsoft Lync vs. Communicator Mobile for Windows Mobile   Featured Channels » Video Conferencing » Online Video Platform Solutions » Cloud Communications   Business Video   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Business Video Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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