Jeremy Allaire’s still-in-beta Brightcove is announcing the aquisition of Seattle based metaStories this morning at 8 am EST.
This looks like a good match. Brightcove is focused on “Internet TV,” or creating an Internet outlet for media producers. Heather Green at Business Week calls it “distribution feeds to micro-audiences”.
MetaStories, on the other hand, has tools for actually creating that content. Their main product, StoryMaker, is a publishing tool for creating interactive Flash content.
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Hello Mike,
Do you have any idea when Brightcove plans to have a public release? I read about Brightcove for the first time a little over a year ago…would be nice to know when I could actually take at what they have produced.
Nevermind Mike. I went back to the site to get a better understanding of exactly what role they plan to play in I-TV. I thought this was going to be more of a consumer facing application…but they seem to be focuing on providing the tools and not the actual distribution of the products if I did understand it correctly.
New Wave CableTV for the web?
Brightcove has codetv.com now which you can see some of the material they have produced. It’s different and less interesting to me then our material becasue it’s seems suited for the upper class folks and just not as grassroots overall as I would like it.