In the Pipeline - European Web 2.0

Posted on August 24, 2006
Filed Under European Web 2.0, European Web 2.0 pipeline |

European companies have been hoping for, and being funded for, a form of automated content brokerage for about 15 years now. Why it should obsess the European mind is a mystery but Telefonica researchers are at it now in conjunction with teams from Holland, France, Germany and the UK. Motorola is a partner.

The relevance of a multimedia brokerage in Web 2.0 is also slightly mysterious when feeds do much of the work. Telefonica may be referring to a feed stream capable of dealing with multimedia content.

They’re working on a content management sytem to extract, compare and combine meaning from multiple multimedia sources, and produce advanced personalized multimedia summaries, deeply linked among them and to the original sources to provide end users with an easy-to-use “multimedia mesh” .

I guess if you start thinking about applying feeds to multimedia content then you’d come up with a statement something like that one.

They particularly have news content in mind: they will create multimedia content brokers acting on behalf of users to acquire, process, create and present multimedia information personalized (to user) and adapted (to usage environment).

These functions will be fully exhibited in the application area of news, by creation of a platform that will unify news organizations through the online retrieval, editing, authoring and publishing of news items.

It’d be great to see one of these projects come off.


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