Why can't we capture our video conferences / web conferences? The storage and bandwidth issues are getting easier to address with modern compression. One real reason is that a recorded video file will rarely be used to collaborate because (a) it takes too long to find the right video and (b) then find the right bit of the videoInsight is another research project within the IBM Center for Social Software. It's similar to YouTube, but allows more granular text and comment markups, and also allows you to link to specific sections of a video. Comments and any captions are all searchable too, so if you needed to find that bit of the CFOs speech where he talked about 'focus', you would get straight there.
You can also imagine our marketing teams using this kind of functionality when working on TV adverts to very easily and remotely collaborate with the advertisement agencies on new campaigns.
I know that our Web CC colleagues are very interested in video. At the moment this tool is only available internally on the IBM network, but if this is of interest we've been offered a full onsite demonstration. I guess I'll be talking to James...
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I've also seen some software recently that allows you to do similar but on your phone - so potentially great for a sales user checking shelf positioning etc. It will be in my feeds so if you chat to James and it is of interest I'll search back through.
Yes I'm very interesting in the use of video for collaboration, I've posted about it on my internal blog before. This IBM project sounds interesting though I don't think the concept is new. I think we've had similar functionality in AdView, the tool used to collaborate on advertisements between marketing and our ad agencies.
I think you are right that delivering video to the desktop is more reliable today. We have deployed Adobe Flash Media Server for dotMars and will be making this available for other uses shortly.
Today the biggest challenge is not delivering the video but making it in the first place. As part of the dotMars solution we are using a tool from ON2 which provides a simple way to record, encode and upload video to the server. Once we have this piece licked we can look at how to enhance the video's themselves.
So yes WebCC would be interested to look at this project.
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