tirsdag 9. februar 2010

Speedbit building new service to identify viral videos sooner, personalize web video streams

SpeedBit, the folks behind Video Accelerator and Download Accelerator, is developing another service centered around web video. The new offering will potentially help web users find the best web video content suited to their interests, and will also identify viral videos before they become huge hits. By identifying viral videos early, Speedbit hopes to promote them to users who may potentially miss out when a video becomes popular very quickly, and is soon forgotten.
According to SpeedBit, their technology identified the infamous BBC report of an “indestructible” mobile phone from CES this year when the video only had 797 views. In its first three days online, the video received more than 1 million views.
SpeedBit CEO Ariel Yarnitsky spoke at the DLD (Digital, Life, Design) conference in Munich recently about the technology. During the panel discussion, Yarnitsky shared his vision for what the service will bring:
We are overwhelmed with a gigantic ocean of content that we need to find our way across… It’s about finding those very popular videos on YouTube that we like and identifying them early enough. It’s about building our own kind of personal TV guide so we know how to navigate across.
There’s certainly a need for services that will help users cull through the vast amounts of online video. Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron launched something similar with Magma, which charts the top videos across the web, and also offers a bit of viral prediction as well. It remains to be seen how SpeedBit’s currently unnamed service differs.
Based in Haifa, Israel, SpeedBit has been around since 1999. The company has made a name for itself by offering several methods for users to take advantage of all their available broadband bandwidth.

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