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, and share with your friends. PaidContent.org wrote about this new “open media platform” in a post here, saying “the race is on to be the most ubiquitous platform in town”. An excellent observation, and I am glad that we have had a 2 year head start in that race. :)
Open Social Media Platform + Open Player = The Most Open Platform in Town
Mefeedia (the “open social media platform”) + Miro (”the open player” and Joost killer) is the most open platform in town. MediaRSS in / MediaRSS out - mash it up, mix it up, play it, watch it on any device, watch it in Second Life, share it with your friends, use your friends as filters, download to Miro, bring it to your TV. Openness = Flexibility and Choice.
The combination of these two platforms is very powerful. I am glad to see the rest of the “town” is catching up to the vision we set forth several years ago here at Mefeedia.
UPDATE: Miro has officially release it’s 1.0 version today! Congrats Miro team!!!
Mefeedia + Miro = the game-changing “open social media platform”.
UPDATE 2: Techcrunch wrote about it here.
UPDATE 3: GigaOm has written about Bebo and Open Media. How can it be open when it is put into a closed social network? I’ve never seen a Bebo RSS feed coming out - ever. Please leave a comment if you know of a way to get data OUT of Bebo. Open = Data In / Data Out.
UPDATE 4: Marshall over at R/W Web has done a good analysis of the new platforms - is Bebo’s “Open Media” really a platform?
UPDATE 5: On a roll today - TechCrunch just wrote about Bebo’s video push, which is really what this about (not a platform).
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November 13th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
[…] post info By epigonic Categories: Internet and Video Tags: “open media”, bebo, mefeedia, vodpod Today, Bebo announced they were launching something they’re calling “Open Media.” At first, based on only the name and the initial couple of lines of a somewhat laudatory review, I thought: wow, this looks cool & promising & interesting. But then I dug in, saw the details of the announcement, and the audacity calling this new service open made me think of this list of operational code names. Seems to me the Presidential Speechalist had a hand in the naming of this one. These two posts have the analysis about right, I think. Mefeedia certainly meets the open media criteria — you can get RSS feeds from sites around the internet and watch them in any RSS media player. […]