NYConvergence ORIGINAL
By: Amy Berryhill

For the first NY Video Meetup of 2010, presenters included some new companies emerging into the video space. The most impressive of which, as evidenced by the audience vote at the end of the presentations, was a company called Frontal.

Frontal has created a markup and scripting language that generates Flash for the web. The implications are extensive. Users create Flash content in a text based language that can be easily modified or re-used. And because the markup and script is in text before being converted to Flash content, it is fully indexable by search engines. That's right - easy to build, indexable Flash content.

Another presenter adding text to video was SpeakerText. This start-up associates the transcript of a video with the video content itself. Users can create links back to certain points in the video simply by cutting and pasting the corresponding text within the transcript.

Additional presenters included Klickable.TV and PNG Labs. Klickable.TV has a product that acts as a wrapper for any video content, allowing users to tag elements within the video and enter HTML descriptors. PNG Labs offers a software product that is used by broadcast journalists to easily transmit their video content, either via live streaming to the web or via FTP to their news outlet.

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