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“The Magnify team was nothing but helpful... the value of working with a team that 'gets it' is priceless.”
David-Michael Davies, Chairman
- Q. What is Internet Week?
- Internet Week is a crowdsourced festival to promote NYC's thriving Internet industry and community. The week is open to any and all companies and organizations that would like to participate, and covers the broad range of industries working online, from startups to advertising to major media companies. This year over 80 partners created over 100 events, a 35% increase from 2008.
- Q. How did you get the word out about the event?
- In many ways, Internet Week is all about content aggregation, from the events our partners host to the content attendees and partners produce. One of the major values we can provide is aggregating the content the community produces, whether it be photos or videos.
- Q. What made you decide to go with Magnify?
- What's key for us is giving people an integrated online experience. What's great about Magnify is that we're not redirecting people to YouTube or Flickr, we're keeping them on our site, but offering access to the same content. So we're not asking people to change their habits (people will continue to upload their photos to Flickr), but instead we're offering a way to access Internet Week content directly, with the same "feel" as the rest of the IW site. Plus, Magnify is a New York company!
- Q. What was your experience with the service?
- The Magnify team was nothing but helpful...the value of working with a team that "gets it" is priceless.
- Q. What do you see as the future of video on the web?
- I just saw today that the iPhone is now the most popular camera on Flickr, and that's great news for video too. It's all about ease of participation: interested people, and not just the professionals, can take part in the sharing and archiving of content, which is exactly in the spirit of Internet Week. We'll be seeing more IW video next year, as well as across the board, but IW people especially are early adopters.
- Q. How would you describe Magnify.net to someone thinking about launching a video channel?
- Magnify makes it really easy to host video and distribute it to the world without getting too far into the plumbing, so you're not trying to reinvent technology and you can move on to actually getting it out there!
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David-Michael Davies, Chairman
- Channel Info:
- internetweek.magnify.net
- Created May, 2009
- 493 members
- 6,647 videos
