January 25, 2008 | Comments: (0)
Adobe ships Flash Media Server 3 products
Adobe Systems said Friday it is shipping its Adobe Flash Media Server 3 family of products for streaming media and real-time communications.
Featured in the line is the Flash Media Streaming Server 3 software for live and on-demand video streaming and Flash Media Interactive Server 3 for customized video-stream services. Interactive Server 3 also can be used for multi-way social media applications.
Flash Media Interactive Server 3 has an estimated street price of $4,500 while Flash Media Streaming Server 3 costs $995 for single-server deployments.
Adobe had announced the products in December.
Posted by Paul Krill on January 25, 2008 10:23 AM
July 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
KickApps delivers social networking as a service
KickApps has released what it says is the industry's
first hosted service to give Web sites enterpise-class rich-media sharing and social networking functionality.
The company said this week: "KickApps addresses the needs of webmasters looking to provide their visitors with all the functionality typically found at leading Web 2.0 portals like MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook."
Although the service is outsourced, it can be customized to look as if a natural extension of a site's design, and comes with advanced managment tools such as for filtering pornography and managing copyright.
The company has also worked with leading traffic reporting companies to make sure traffic figures are accurate and counted towards a site's total traffic.
KickApps founder and chief executive Eric Alterman told InfoWorld that the ability to share what is created and stored on KickApps-powered sites via cut-and-paste "widget" were key to his expectations for its success. The widgets come in the form of Flash-based objects that contain video and other media aggregated by affiliate websites.
"While KickApps enables the usual features found on most user-generated content websites our widget-based platform is designed to create a far more dynamic and viral media experience," Alterman said.
The service, available for free as a KickApps ad-supported option and as a paid option, is available now and the company said it would announce a number of significant customers over the next several weeks.
www.kickapps.com
Posted by Mike Barton on July 14, 2006 04:32 PM
April 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
OmniCast for SMS cuts the time needed to distribute updates
Stratacache has announced a new version of its content distribution software, OmniCast for SMS2003, which offers simultaneous delivery of updates and patches to Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 distributed servers.
OmniCast can receive, compress, simultaneously distribute, and install SMS updates on every server on a wide area network, providing enormous savings in bandwidth and delivery time. OmniCast for SMS can transfer files to as many as 20,000 distributed servers concurrently.
OmniCast for SMS2003 has job-specific bandwidth controls and scheduling, enabling it to automatically and transparently distribute updates without disrupting other network traffic.
OmniCast for SMS2003 is available immediately.
Posted by Caroline Craig on April 25, 2006 08:21 AM