Video Collaboration

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 video

Insight 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...

Microsoft know how to party!

Seriously look at the rapture on the faces of the audience ;-)

The party also had Lan Halo, a chainsaw juggler, a stage for people playing rock band, free arcade games and so on. We stayed for a while but the rock, paper, scissors amazed us ;-)