Kaltura
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Kaltura is a software company based in New York
which was founded in 2006.
Kaltura's technology allows publishers and content owners to publish, manage, monetize and analyze their video and other rich-media content. 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.
model but uses media rather than text. Over time, the company changed its focus to providing an open source video platform with a focus on universities, enterprises, media companies and service providers looking to deploy video in their organizations.
Publishers can add video capabilities using Kaltura’s hosted services, download the open source community edition, deploy the platform on-premise behind their own firewall, or on the cloud (such as Amazon Web Services). Kaltura also provides self-serve video packages for web-platforms such as MediaWiki
, WordPress
, Drupal
, Joomla, etc.
, Kaltura's CTO as of 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. 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. Also in 2007, Kaltura began a partnership with the New York Public Library
, whose team was headed by Joshua Greenberg
. In 2008, Kaltura was selected as one of the "Global 250 Winners" by AlwaysOn. Kaltura CEO and cofounder Ron Yekutiel was photographed for the article "The Suit, Vers. 3.0" in Esquire Magazine's July 2008 edition.
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. 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.
In addition to support of MediaWiki, Kaltura enables interactive videos integrated within popular CMS and blogging platforms such as WordPress
.
Kaltura is also a founder of the Open Video Alliance, a group of organizations, academics, artists and entrepreneurs, geared towards promoting open standards for video on the web.
, a WordPress
plugin, a Drupal
module, a Mediawiki
extension, and Ruby
and PHP
frameworks.
In essence, according to the company's website, Kaltura’s open-source video management platform enables organizations to deploy applications that involve video creation, ingestion, publishing, management, syndication, engagement, monetization and analysis. Kaltura’s free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as rich media streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Kaltura’s Application Exchange enables software and service providers to market solutions that are integrated with Kaltura’s API.
Articles
New York
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which was founded in 2006.
Kaltura's technology allows publishers and content owners to publish, manage, monetize and analyze their video and other rich-media content. 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.
Concept
The original concept was built on the collaborative WikiWiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
model but uses media rather than text. Over time, the company changed its focus to providing an open source video platform with a focus on universities, enterprises, media companies and service providers looking to deploy video in their organizations.
Publishers can add video capabilities using Kaltura’s hosted services, download the open source community edition, deploy the platform on-premise behind their own firewall, or on the cloud (such as Amazon Web Services). Kaltura also provides self-serve video packages for web-platforms such as MediaWiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
, WordPress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
, Drupal
Drupal
Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and...
, Joomla, etc.
History
Kaltura was founded in the fall of 2006 by Ron Yekutiel (CEO as of 2008), Dr. Shay David (VP of Community and Business Development as of 2008), Dr. Michal Tsur (a co-founder of Cyota, President and COO as of 2008) and Eran Etam (a co-founder of ICQICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
, Kaltura's CTO as of 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. At that time, the company had 20 employees, and had received 2.1 million dollars in funding from business angels and Californian VC fund
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
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
Mashable
Mashable is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets...
Open Web Awards. Also in 2007, Kaltura began a partnership with the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
, whose team was headed by Joshua Greenberg
Joshua Greenberg
Joshua M. Greenberg is an American academic working in sociology of scientific knowledge. Greenberg is Program Director for Digital Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previously he was the Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the...
. In 2008, Kaltura was selected as one of the "Global 250 Winners" by AlwaysOn. Kaltura CEO and cofounder Ron Yekutiel was photographed for the article "The Suit, Vers. 3.0" in Esquire Magazine's July 2008 edition.
In January 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...
and Kaltura announced that they had begun a collaboration aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
and other wiki websites. The technology behind this project is a form of video-wiki software (open source and still in beta) that is integrated into the Mediawiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
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.
In addition to support of MediaWiki, Kaltura enables interactive videos integrated within popular CMS and blogging platforms such as WordPress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
.
Kaltura is also a founder of the Open Video Alliance, a group of organizations, academics, artists and entrepreneurs, geared towards promoting open standards for video on the web.
Products
Kaltura products include video players, video editors (including a collaborative video editor), a content management systemContent management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
, a WordPress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
plugin, a Drupal
Drupal
Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and...
module, a Mediawiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
extension, and Ruby
Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...
and PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
frameworks.
In essence, according to the company's website, Kaltura’s open-source video management platform enables organizations to deploy applications that involve video creation, ingestion, publishing, management, syndication, engagement, monetization and analysis. Kaltura’s free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as rich media streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Kaltura’s Application Exchange enables software and service providers to market solutions that are integrated with Kaltura’s API.
External links
- Kaltura - Open Source Video Platform
- Yochai BenklerYochai BenklerYochai Benkler is an Israeli-American professor of Law and author. Since 2007, he has been the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.- Biography :In 1984, Benkler...
: 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 wagerCarr-Benkler wagerThe Carr–Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.-History:...
) - 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
- Kaltura's GPL licenced code at Sourceforge
- Kaltura’s Video-wiki extension for the MediaWiki software
- Kaltura’s All-In-One Video Plugin for WordPress
- Kaltura’s All-In-One Video Plugin for Drupal
Articles
- Full news coverage on Kaltura’s corporate site
- TechCrunch November 26, 2007
- Computer Business Review November 22, 2007
- Venture Beat September 28, 2007
- ZDNet September 19, 2007
- BuzzMachine October 1, 2007
- Gartner 28 September 2007
- Mashable August 4, 2008
- Ostatic June 18, 2008
- Washington Post June 18, 2008
- CNET April 14, 2008