September 23, 2007

Kaltura, lowering the bar

Category: F/OSS,Kaltura,Tech,Video_editing — Biella @ 2:20 pm

I have a number of friends who are finishing PhDs and then I have those “special” friends who are wrapping up their dissertation and manage to do something else quite extraordinary right at the same time. Shay David is one such friend who is currently wrapping up a fascinating dissertation on the social implications of openness and collaboration in various contexts (software, biology) but is also pushing the boundaries of what we mean by collaboration by helping to create a new vision, platform, medium, tool, and site, Kaltura.

As you can read about more on their about page, Kaltura basically lowers the technical bar for video editing bringing the power of editing to anyone, at least anyone who registers for an account. Kaltura provides an easy-to-use tool kit that allows you and others to hack away to create, edit, & mashup videos. In lowering the bar, they are significantly expanding the mind (and actual space) for video collaboration.

Some more good news is that Kaltura is soon going to GPL its technology, and they are looking for developers who want to contribute to this exciting project. The project is in PHP and Flex/ActionScript3, if anyone is interested, they should email contact@kaltura.com !

Happy (video) hacking…

2 Comments »

  1. [...] Interprete – Kaltura, lowering the bar [...]

    Pingback by Kaltura Video Editing Suite | Bringing Social Networking To The Art Of Video Editing » Web TV Wire — October 7, 2007 @ 2:01 am

  2. Kaltura looks awesome, but the email address in your post is bouncing!

    Comment by Kasper Souren — October 15, 2007 @ 5:10 am

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