Comments on: Bebo, Open Media & Its Broadband Advantage

By: Marie Murdoch

Marie Murdoch — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:11:44 +0000

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By: beth

beth — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:40:02 +0000

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AOL Buys Bebo, Time Warner Still Schizophrenic - GigaOM — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:55:47 +0000

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By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:10:13 +0000

Om - this sounds like the same system that Mefeedia has had for 2 years. Except there are no gate keepers. “Quality” is objective. We let users decide. Your friends act as your filter.

I’m subscribed to 260 MediaRSS feeds on Mefeedia because I want to be and no one is choosing which feeds i can watch and witch ones i can’t. I can add any MediaRSS feed that is available from a vlogger, the Wall Street Journal, Youtube users - whoever. 100% open and 100% of the video ad revenue goes to the source.

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:18:55 +0000

It seems a bit ironic that service providers spent so much money on networks designed to deliver television, and now that same content is being consumed over a network - the Internet- that was not built to handle it.

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By: Jose Hernandez

Jose Hernandez — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:50:02 +0000

Om, great summary.

Ta address a few comments:

Broadband still does suck in Ireland as Damien pointed out. Bebo is probably so popular there because it is sickeningly fast.

The "Open" and "Platform" bits really come into play after a whitelist process. Anyone can apply to be a "Media Partner". To be approved as a partner, all you need is quality content that you own the rights to. Once a Media Partner is approved, they can create multiple content "channel" profiles, (similar to a group).

Each channel can be mapped 1-to-1 with a Media RSS feed. When the feed is ingested, it is converted into a video playlist on the channel profile. We pull object/embeds and thumbnails and a few other pieces of metadata and store them in our database. Bebo does not transfer, store or transcode any video at all, but relies entirely on other companies to provide that functionality, much like it already does with VideoEgg. So that's it, if you have a feed you can syndicate it straight into the Bebo experience and take advantage of all the marketing richness of a social network. Bebo still makes its money the same way as it did before - by selling ads on the site.

Here's the really cool part -an approved partner can use any player they want from any site - so long as they can roll it into a bebo-flavored MRSS feed.

Om, I would be happy to give you a more detailed walk-through of the Bebo Open Media Platform and its partners at the NewTeeVee conference tomorrow if I can make it.

~jose

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:59:13 +0000

I do give them credit for the direction. Social media is the future and social networks are tuning into that.

I'd love a more detailed analysis on all of these content deals and WHAT content is actually being made available. A lot of them already offer a ton of content available via MediaRSS.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:57:23 +0000

Eh Om, broadband in Ireland still sucks, with half the net users on dialup. There are way more people on Bebo in Ireland than there are on broadband. 650k on broadband, 1.1m on Bebo.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:32:28 +0000

I think to call this a platform is a stretch. anyway at least they are aware of how and how their users are. i give them full marks for that. what do you think frank?

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:28:01 +0000

“Open Platform” - what? How is this open? And a platform?

I do agree that social networks are really going to become more and more “social media networks”. I’m glad the market is finally catching up to us. :)

-Frank
CEO, Mefeedia

(link) - What are you watching?

By: Mefeedia Blog - What are you watching?

Mefeedia Blog - What are you watching? — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:19:18 +0000

The Open Social Media Platform

I just read a Bebo press release about their “radical new vision” for Open Media. My question for them: Where have they been living the last two years? Online video has always been about being open - making it easy to publish, distribute, a...

By: free market research report

free market research report — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:23:24 +0000

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