In this week containing Christmas, the Christmas Channel was one of our most popular, but vision of sugar plums were not running through our kids heads. These were:
See ya in 2009!
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, except one clicking a mouse
Five channels made by fast forward with exceptional care
In expectation of web surfers soon to be there
http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/demo/2008/121808democast.html
Thanks to you (and your friends) we're going to be getting one of these in the mail sometime soon:
That's right, we won the Open Web Award for video sharing. But we don't need to wait for the award to arrive to celebrate. Please come by our offices this evening for some Wine, Wii, and Way cool ffwd T-shirts and stickers. (If you can't come but still want a T-Shirt, please send your mailing address, gender, and size request to blog@ffwd.com.
Time: 5 to 7
Where: 531 Howard St. 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
(if the buzzer isn't working just call 415.873.3881)
Looks like TV old, new and cable rules the roost this week. All of these keywords resulted in sessions longer than a sitcom (even including the commercials). Kinda makes you think that personal channels comprising socially selected on-demand video might be good thing to add to the TV mix, huh?
Okay, new idea for a weekly post here...I'm going to list the keywords where the according ffwd channel we provided resulted in the longest sessions on ffwd.com that week. Without further ado, the list for the week ending Dec 7, 2008
No surprise that the top result is for a popular show now unavailable on broadcast TV. We have ffwd channels built specifically for audiences of those shows. More surprising is the list includes searches for specific episodes or guests on shows. The system is not designed to service a search for a specific event in a show and yet it is converting the specific search the more general interest of the viewer
Okay now this is serious. There's little doubt that YouTube would have won this award in 2006 for proving anyone can create and share short form video thus creating the category of video sharing. Last year the winner was Kaltura who facilitates open source video sharing for the likes of Major League Baseball and the New York Public Library and Creative Commons. Because of company's like Kaltura, the future only holds more video content and distributed across more diverse sources. What we need next to perpetuate the democratization of short form video is to help viewers navigate the impending video explosion, precisely ffwd's mission. Please make a note to vote for us every day and please ask your friends to do the same, because every vote cast helps move history along.
