http://blog.delvenetworks.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:55:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chris Albrecht from NewTeeVee recently posted an article about some of the ways the Olympics have pushed the envelope of online video technology. NBC has made over 2,200 hours of video available on NBCOlympics.com. As Chris points out, Microsoft and Digital Rapids were forced to innovate themselves out of some ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2008/08/18/nbc-looks-inside-the-video-to-put-the-olympics-online/ Today’s we’ve announced that EdgeCast has been selected to provide CDN services for the Delve video management platform. After carefully evaluating many alternatives, there were a few reasons why we decided to work with EdgeCast: Domain Knowledge - our engineering team can be quite demanding and has an incredibly high bar ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2008/07/21/delve-partners-with-edgecast-to-deliver-high-quality-video/ This week, ComScore came out with online metrics for May. Here are some of the highlights: 12 billion videos were viewed during the month of May in the US This represents an increase of 45% compared to a year ago Google sites (mostly YouTube) represents 34.58% of all videos watched There is a huge ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2008/07/19/lies-damn-lies-and-video-metrics-2/ Today, Brightcove has acknowledged their product lacks the ease-of-use and advanced capabilities publishers require to be successful. Or, as TechCrunch so aptly puts it, "Brightcove Gutted and Rebuilt." After reading the various articles and blog posts, I came to the conclusion that there wasn't much substance to this release and ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2008/06/18/goodbye-brightcove-hello-brightcove/ By Alex Castro Delve Networks Web video has never been more popular, as evidenced by the fact that over 11.2 billion online videos were viewed in the United States in March of 2008, according to ComScore Video Metrix. Yet, you have to wonder if the current video platforms have kept ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2008/06/14/the-delve-video-platform/ Nielsen's announcement yesterday marks something a lot bigger than just a way to measure the relevance of sites that use AJAX. While folks like Steve Rubel correctly predicted the death of the page view metric some time ago , this new announcement does more: it lays down the foundation ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2007/07/11/minutes-matter-most/ Yesterday, Pluggd and CNet unveiled our HearHere search capability over a sampling of popular ZDnet shows. It's exciting, because this is the first time people are able to search within media using a heatmap experience. Before this, users had two choices: full meal deal or get up from the table. Now they can ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2007/06/30/hungry-get-your-hot-cnet-chunks/ We're excited to be mentioned in a story in the Economist today about speech recognition. The article does a good job of surveying the space, but what really makes Pluggd different (and speech reco useful for video search) is the chunking technology we've developed (read more about chunks). It's great to see the company ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2007/06/08/pluggd-in-the-economist/ We got some questions about what these chunk-things are after my last post. Some folks asked how this is different from just searching for the utterance of a word in video. It's quite a bit different. Matt Marshall at Venture Beat did a good job describing how Pluggd works ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2007/05/30/more-about-chunks-the-parts-you-want/ Google's uber search across text, images and now video has a lot of people talking, including the New York Times. But the enthusiasm ignores how people really use search. Searching includes not only finding results, but also figuring out which results you want. Google's text search does a good job of ... http://blog.delvenetworks.com/2007/05/17/google-combining-video-with-search-results-halfway-there/