Software

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses, Daisy Whitney reports in this week's New Media Minute.

Market7, a San Francisco-based start-up that offers video project management as a software solution, is providing its services to Google, the company announced today.

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft Silverlight, the new Web multimedia platform, is "one of the fastest Web plug-in's," with one third of the world's PC's having the program installed, said Chris Swenson, Senior Strategy Officer in this interview with Beet.TV at Microsoft headquarters.

SAN JOSE, Calif — Cisco and Warner Music Group have expanded the use of Eos, Cisco's content management system, to power a number of Warner artist web sites and their branded media and social networks.

Here is my sit down with Blip.tv co-founders Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan.  We caught up last week, after there news event at their company's downtown Manhattan office.

Google has acquired ON2, a New York company which provides encoding software which allows videos to be compressed into Flash and other software formats.  Here's a report on TechCrunch.

REDMOND, WA  — Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, says that internal research has found that users develop a “habit” with their search engine of choice.

The  Adobe text layout framework environment TLF, which powers the new, elegant The New York Times Reader, is  being released for free as part of a big "open source" move from Adobe.

Although video has been on Wikipedia in a limited way for the past two years, it is poised to take-off with the recent introduction of Firefox 3.5 along with other imminent developments, we have learned.

Adobe seeks to unify the many flavors of video players with one universal framework, which it calls Strobe. 

One of the most anticipated developments in Web video will be the implementation of open source video into Wikipedia.

While the open video movement seeks an environment free of licensing fees for software, Adobe is supportive of the movement.

Firefox 3.5, the next big release of the popular browser, will be released to the public on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Mozilla confirmed today.

News reports today indicate that Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 will be publicly available next week.  One of the most significant elements in the new release is the ability to play web video without a plug-in.

NEW YORK , NY — There is a powerful movement underway for open video standards for the Web.  The biggest implementation will be seen very soon on Wikipedia where you will watch videos in an open source video application called Ogg Theora.

Having dominated rich media design, Adobe is bringing its development and design tools to business applications.  Companies including SAP are using Flash to create apps.

CARLSBAD, Calif — One of the most talked about sessions here at D: All Things Digital was Wednesday's one-on-one on stage conversation between Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and co-executive editor Kara Swisher. 

CARLSBAD, Calif — Bing, the new Microsoft search engine debuted here yesterday, is different.

NEW YORK – While readers of the print version of The New York Times spend an average of 40 minutes a day, visitors to the Web site (a vastly bigger number) spend just 30 hours minutes per month.

Adobe, the software company which dominates the software ecosystem for online video with Flash, is seeking to unify the industry around a common framework for video players so publishers and advertisers can work together more efficiently.