Ourmedia is proud to announce the unveiling of the Personal Media Learning Center as well as the Open Media Directory. The Learning Center is an ongoing project with a simple aim: to help people engage in the participatory media movement by showing them how to create videoblogs, podcasts, screencasts, digital stories and other emerging media […]
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Blogger dinner in Milan
Had a fantastico time last night at a blogger dinner organized by Paolo Valdemarin, a consultant who’s one of the big thinkers in Italy’s social media scene. The gathering at Il Verdi Trattoria in Milano brought together 17 people, including Massimo Esposti, whose new Unwired Media publishing venture (see the Area 51 blog) will debut […]
Happy birthday to Ourmedia
Ourmedia launched one year ago today! Little did we realize how influential we’d become in helping to spur the citizens media movement. We now have 87,000 members and about 150,000 works of personal media that people have uploaded — video, audio, photos and more. Our first year was about giving people the power to share […]
New leadership roles at Ourmedia
Ourmedia has two new board members: Joining our Board of Directors is John Seely Brown. JSB is one of the most revered figures in Silicon Valley. For many years he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He describes himself as being “deeply involved in […]
Ourmedia: Stage 2 of the revolution
I spent Monday in Southern California at a strategy session organized by developer/videoblogger Markus Sandy at his house in Ojai. About eight of us, plus another eight developers in a Flash meeting, charted out the next phase of Ourmedia — stage 2 of the personal media revolution. Among the items on tap in the next […]