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Kyte announced a content management and analytics solution for the Kyte Platform. Kyte Dashboard provides partners with video uploading and management capabilities, multi-level content moderation, and in-depth analytics reporting and visualization. The addition of Kyte Dashboard provides media companies utilizing the Kyte Platform with an interface to manage all of their Kyte media and view insightful analytics. Kyte Dashboard is a hosted application that can be accessed from the web, or run on the desktop as an Adobe AIR application. Kyte Dashboard's content management module allows partners to upload and broadcast professionally produced content, change the order of shows that appear in a channel through simple drag and drop functionality, edit show meta data such as show title and description, and copy, delete and download media to their computer. Kyte Dashboard's multi-level content moderation capabilities enable companies to safely engage in viewer-generated content campaigns. Moderators can approve or reject viewer-contributed content, as well as ban or restore content flagged as inappropriate by other viewers. The analytics module provides insight into engagement, distribution, production, advertising and user metrics. Partners can view analytics as tabular data or visualized charts at the account or channel level and over a specific range of time. Kyte provides an end-to-end, online and mobile platform for the production, distribution and monetization of digital content. http://www.kyte.com/

Kaltura, Inc. announced that it has released version 1.0 of its "All in One" video module for Drupal. The Kaltura module handles every aspect of rich-media, allowing Drupal site-builders to customize, configure, and manage rich media functionalities that include uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, and sharing of video, audio, and photo files. Kaltura's "All in One" video module was developed using the open source Kaltura code. It is specifically tailored for Drupal, and integrates with Drupal's features and modules, such as CCK, Views, cron, metadata, permissions and taxonomy. The module is currently compatible with Drupal 6 (a Drupal 5 compatible version will be available soon). http://www.kaltura.com

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced a new standard to make it easier to author interactive multimedia presentations. "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)" allows video, audio, images, text, and hypertext links to be combined into interactive presentations, with fine-grain control of layout and timing. "The importance of SMIL 3.0 is that it contains a set of user-requested features that provide exciting new functionality, while retaining all the advantages of a declarative (that is, without scripting) approach to building a multimedia presentation," said Dick Bulterman, chair of the Synchronized Multimedia Working Group, which published the specification. Read the full press release, testimonials, and learn more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/cover.html

Clickability announced the immediate availability of the Clickability Media Solution. The Media Solution provides a centrally managed SaaS content repository that enables large media companies to share digital content across their entire organization and publish it to multiple devices and web channels. Companies of all sizes can leverage the multi-tenant content repository as a hub for innovative content sharing, syndication and distribution strategies. Additional benefits to companies large and small include reduced operational costs through greater efficiencies and the ability to build active social media communities. The solution is designed to maximize the value of every piece of content in a customer's repository. Content can be tagged and annotated for search and reuse. Assets can be linked and shared across channels and publications. The repository allows companies to create targeted microsites or regional portals that rely on metadata to automatically populate with appropriate content and contextual links. Clickability also offers interactive features, which includes social networking, blogging, video serving, ticketing, personalized calendars, site customization and an on-demand ad server that ties ads to specific sections and pages of a site. http://www.clickability.com

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The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) SYMM Working Group has published the the Proposed Recommendation of "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)," pronounced "smile." SMIL 3.0 allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author may describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. SMIL 3.0 is a modular XML application: its components may be used in other XML formats. SMIL also defines mobile profiles that incorporate features useful within the industry. Comments are welcome through 6 November. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-SMIL3-20081006/

Vignette announced the upcoming availability of Vignette Media, a solution that helps telecommunications, media and entertainment (TME) organizations deliver integrated media strategies. The new solution aides marketing and business professionals to manage, deliver and present many types of digital content. For IT professionals, Vignette Media reduces the need for multiple software solutions. Vignette has a team focused on the needs of the TME vertical to realize capabilities such as: Single user interface to manage all Web content using similar workflows and publishing processes; Pre-defined workflows and content types most commonly used by TME organizations for editorial, marketing and promotional material; Easier set up of Web site workspaces reducing the time required for IT to deploy and manage new initiatives; And optimized workflow capabilities to address the more flexible and collaborative media publishing process, with automation capabilities to handle repetitive publishing tasks. http://www.vignette.com

Web Content Management vendor Polopoly and Bambuser have entered into a partnership to provide customers with a fully integrated offering. The cooperation will allow web enterprises full use of the live mobile broadcasting technology within the framework of the publishing system from Polopoly. Polopoly enables personalized services, such as local weather and search services, quick polls and user ratings of articles. Adding Bambuser extends Polopoly's community module, where user-generated content can be managed in co-ordination with other content. The core idea of Bambuser technology is to provide companies and individuals with the opportunity to communicate audiovisual broadcast live using mobile phones or web-camera as the broadcasting device. Bambuser technology allows you to communicate whatever to whomever whenever you want to. Live and mobile, no cables necessary. The integration will provide a ready-made Bambuser element within the web based Polopoly user interface, containing all the publishing features required by online services. Flexible meta-tagging, automatic content re-formatting and searchable media archives are all components. http://www.polopoly.com

Ephox announced the latest release of its online rich text editor, EditLive!. The newest feature in EditLive! 6.5 is the image editing tool that helps non-technical users create web content. EditLive!'s inline image editing feature crops, resizes and rotates images with the click of a button, in addition to creating special effects like drop shadow, reflection and rounded corners. Images are automatically resized and resampled to ensure web appropriate file sizes. In addition to usability improvements, some of the new features in EditLive! 6.5 include the ability to customize the color palette for greater consistency, auto-correct for fixing common typing errors, and added dialects for a total of 28 user interface and international language libraries. All of the features in the latest release are included in the EditLive! Enterprise Edition which adds advanced productivity, multimedia and collaboration tools like the new image editor, track changes, thesaurus, auto correct, and an advanced Java API library. http://www.ephox.com

Equilibrium announced a partnership with pTools. pTools has enhanced its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software for Microsoft SharePoint by integrating it with MediaRich DAM for SharePoint, Equilibrium's Digital Asset Management software. pTools product architecture with MediaRich and SharePoint provides end-to-end ECM software to customers that covers web content management, digital asset management, plus document collaboration and records management on a single platform. This allows interoperability of workflows and user interface with pTools, MediaRich, SharePoint and other Microsoft applications. pTools architecture allows re-use of content across multiple applications from a single repository, while maintaining all the necessary workflow and compliance rules demanded of enterprise level initiatives. Content compliance within pTools uses sophisticated audit trail functionality that allows pTools customers to validate all events in the life of the content developed. pTools application programming interface (API) enables content management professionals to use pTools development tools to deliver solutions for Intranets, Extranets and Internet applications. Key features include: pTools advanced workflow and content compliance; Web2.0 functionality; pTools Forms; MediaRich digital asset management; Microsoft SharePoint integration; clean code accessibility output; pTools "content element model"; content security marking; SEO optimisation; and multi-site content syndication. http://www.equilibrium.com

Momindum announced the launch of K- base 2.0. K-base 2.0 is a collaborative Rich Media webcasting service designed for corporate training, academic learning and online education. Momindum offers a range of solutions for presentation capturing, Rich Media authoring, content development, editing, collaborative knowledge sharing, Rich Media publishing and knowledge broadcasting. With K-base 2.0, users have access to Rich Media content so they can share video, take notes, access relevant video, ask the trainer questions, discuss ideas in a forum, and use and receive content through their mobile phones. Key features include: Share the (Video) Instant - K-base 2.0 allows the user to share the tagged instant of the video with another user. The user can share the address of a video instant using an internal or external communication medium; Take A Note - K-base 2.0 is an all-inclusive knowledge management system. It encourages users to learn efficiently and paper-lessly by allowing them to take notes while going through a presentation and refer to the notes later on at their convenience; Ask a Question - the Momindum solution helps learners raise a query or contact the trainer for more explanation on the content watched. The trainer can also enrich the Rich Media learning resource by including the communication with other learners; Comments - "Comments" is a feature created to facilitate discussion among the K-base 2.0 learners and trainers about a topic being studied; Easy to update - K-base 2.0 is easy to use for both the trainers and learners. The trainers can update the learning resource while it is still in use, which means uninterrupted access to the learning resource for the learners. http://www.momindum.com/