Contact Information: Contact: Matt Bowman AlwaysOn (415) 595-3487 matt@alwayson-network.com Lisa Bennett Kaltura (212) 981-3965 lisa.bennett@kaltura.com
AlwaysOn Selects Kaltura to Power Video on Its New AlwaysOn Network Website
The Newly Designed AlwaysOn Website Includes Videos From the Company's Leading Industry Events and Other Current News Stories -- All Displayed Using Kaltura's Open Source Video Platform
| Source: Kaltura
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - February 17, 2009) - AlwaysOn, the media network that provides an
open and participatory editorial environment, announced today that it has
selected Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first
open source video platform, to power video display and management on the
newly designed AlwaysOn website.
"It was clear to us that video would be a big part of our new website. We
were looking for a robust video platform that would enable us to handle
dynamic rich-media content and provide our users participatory and
collaborative features. Kaltura's platform was a perfect fit, and its
integration was both seamless and cost-effective," said Tony Perkins,
founder & editor of AlwaysOn. "AlwaysOn prides itself on discovering and
promoting innovative companies. In Kaltura the discovery was twofold -- we
found a tremendous company with outstanding technology and a truly
disruptive vision, and in the process we also found the right solution for
our own site."
The AlwaysOn Network is transforming the media business by providing an
open and participatory editorial environment that captures its readers'
best thinking, and a social network where they can discover, connect and
share content. In addition to reading the latest news and comments in the
blog network, readers can view footage from AlwaysOn conferences, insider
interviews with industry leaders, and additional relevant videos.
"We are delighted to be working with AlwaysOn who shares with us an
appreciation for user engagement, participation, and collaboration," said
Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. "It is a special honor to be
embraced as the best-breed solution by such luminaries. With over twenty
thousand sites using our tools and hundreds more joining every day, we are
well under way to bringing forth an open source revolution to the online
video space."
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first
media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued
to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network
where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the
media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event
series (Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, GoingGreen East and West,
Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering
its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As
our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market,
merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media
brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event
participants.
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With
more than 20,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers
any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open
source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as
downloadable packages for leading platforms -- including Drupal, WordPress
and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including
maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and
hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of third party
services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous
awards, such as the TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's 'Open
Web' award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media company
awards, and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009.