Monday, May 23rd, 2011
At the core of the product are comprehensive moderation tools allowing you to modify and approve content at a variety of levels. Reuters used the ingest, moderation and transcoding capabilities of the Newsdesk Transcoder to power the Times Square billboard as part of their ‘Everday Smiles’ campaign.
The BBC use it for all their user-submitted content and the repurposing of their own feed for partners. The Guardian Newspaper uses it for both incoming UGC and eliciting content based on a theme: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/new-europe-your-videos
Tags: crowd, Crowdsourcer, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing tool, streamuk
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The BBC Word Service is rolling out 14 instances of the Stream UK Crowdsourcer to allow it to ingest content from sites around the world.
The tool has bee developed to include multi-lingual support for Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Russian, Chinese and all European languages.
Also being added is functionality that allows:
geo-tagging of content
search engine optimisation of the output
improved tools for evaluating subscribers
rss feeds to integrate with internal content management systems.
The system will be rolled out to the global audience of 150 million listens through 2008.
Tags: crowdsource tool, Crowdsourcer, crowdsourcing tool, transcoding, transcoding engine, transcoding service
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
This weekend (10-11 May) BBC Radio 1 is using innovative new technology to give listeners a rich online experience during and after its Radio 1 Big Weekend music festival in Maidstone.
Revellers can log on and check out hundreds of photos from the event, select specific shots, zoom in and out to look for friends and celebs. It is also possible to contribute photos, this allows the event to be captured in a uniquely visual way.
The project is being put together by Conchango and Stream UK. Stream UK came highly recommended. Paul Dawson, Head of Interactive Media at Conchango said “Microsoft recommended Stream UK to us as the only Silverlight infrastructure partner they knew who could meet the pressing technology requirements and timescales required. They promised to deliver and were as good as their word”
Tags: crowdsourcing tool, silverlight, silverlight hosting provider, silverlight hosting provider london, silverlight streaming, user generated content
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
The BBC News service is one of the most authoritative sources of content in the world.
The service has commisioned the Stream UK Crowdsourcer to provide a replacement service to its over-crowded email inboxes.
The product will not only replace email submissions of breaking content, but also add usability in the form of:
- transcoding and stardisation of all images and videos received
- an intuitive and fast evaluation system that quickly lets editors evaluate content
- integration with internal content management systems through email and web 2.0 technology.
Due to the nature of the service, the highest standards of reliability and redundancy are being applied.
Tags: crowdsource tool, Crowdsourcer, crowdsourcing tool, transcoding, transcoding engine, transcoding service, video ingest moderation
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