Magnify.net to power video curation, submission, and publishing for New York Magazine's NYMag.com

New York, NY – February 18, 2009 - Today, Magnify.net announces that it has partnered with NYmag.com to build and deploy a web 2.0 video service, including a solution that will provide: video encoding, a custom video player, patent pending video discovery and curation on the Magnify.net publishing platform.

'When NYmag.com was ready to implement a video 2.0 solution, we quickly found that Magnify was the best and most flexible partner for us' said Michael Silberman, General Manger of Digital Media for New York Magazines parent company New York Media.

'The Magnify platform offers all the key player customization and video content management features we need for our own video production, plus the ability to aggregate and curate video from around the Web that fits our brand and our users interests. Magnify will give our users and our advertisers a great new video experience' said Silberman.

The partnership will allow NYmag.com to seamlessly integrate video from multiple sources and servers on the site. 'The notion that video can be sourced, and appropriate video...

Curate-a-thon 2009 Results

The first inaugural Curate-a-thon was a huge success. Great Magnify channels were built, beer was drunk and people were forced to watch videos about knitting. All and all a great night.

First the set up: We invited participants of Social Media Week NYC to take part in a video curating competition. What is a video curation competition one might ask? Well, here were the rules:

1) All participants break into teams of 4 and name a team captain
2) Decide on a curation topic
3) Set up a Magnify channel revolving around the agreed upon topic (45 minutes)
4) Channels are judged on the following:
    a) Number of sources
    b) Quality/contextual fit of the content
    c) Graphic Design and Layout
&nbs...

Participants in NYC Social Media Week and others interested in online video....and well lets be honest, free beer.... are invited to participate in a one of a kind fast paced hour of team digital media curation. Learn how to quickly and easily create a website on any topic by intelligently curating photos, videos, Twitter streams and much more. The best sites will be featured on the Magnify.net home page. Beer will be served.

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New York, NY. February 3, 2009. Today Magnify.net announced it has partnered with BlogHer to build and deploy a video channel, including a custom video player solution that will distribute their video content to the BlogHer network.

The partnership will provide BlogHer with access to Magnify.net’s video publishing, player, and video discovery technology. We are enormously excited to see the power of BlogHers network of bloggers begin to explore the power of video, said Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum.

As BlogHer makes the move into producing and delivering more video content, we have conducted a search for potential video partners, said Lisa Stone, Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer Inc, “Magnify.net provides both the flexibility and features to fulfill our needs for our community, starting with our news hub at BlogHer.com."

http://blogher.magnify.net

About BlogHer
Founded in February 2005 by Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women who ...

TED is an extrordinary gathering of Artists,  Visionaries,  Thinkers and Do-ers.   And now,  Magnify.net has a real-time agregated FEED of the images,  videos,  tweets, and web posts.  Tune in here to watch TED 2009.  Here's what Wikipedia has to say:

TED (conference)

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference that defines its mission as "ideas worth spreading". The lectures, also called TED talks, cover a broad set of topics including science, arts and design, politics, culture, business, global issues, technology and development, and entertainment. Speakers come from a similarly wide variety of communities and disciplines<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup> ...