CanalWeb (France) and OBVIOUS Technology Partner (USA) to Deliver Milia 2000 Highlights on www.canalweb.net
CanalWeb, Europe's first Internet television station, and ObviousTechnology, creator of the first Interactive Video Hosting Portal Suiteof Products and Services are teaming up to deliver daily annotated videohighlights from the Milia 2000 conference in Cannes, France over theInternet on the CanalWeb web site.
The technology for web-delivery of the interactive video is beingprovided by OBVIOUS Technology. It's easy-to-use tools enable CanalWebto annotate Milia video content with other supportive media - Text,Graphics, Web pages, and URLs. Once the video has been annotated, it isonly a few clicks to publish this interactive content on the Web. Theresult: keynote speeches and exhibition highlights will be narrowcasteddaily on www.canalweb. net for the duration of Milia 2000, from February14th to February 18th.
"CanalWeb is the premier broadcaster of streaming video in Europe," saidMark Zacharria, Vice President of the Content Group and InternetServices at Obvious Technology. "We are pleased that they haveidentified our tools as the most effective and flexible way to deliversearchable and interactive video highlights of the Milia 2000 events."As part of the end-to-end solution for delivery of interactive video,OBVIOUS Technology will host the indexed content on the OBVIOUS VideoPortal. This revolutionary service enables companies to distributesearchable interactive video via OBVIOUS Technology and its partners'secure network. More than streaming video delivery service, the OBVIOUSVideo Portal intelligently indexes the multimedia content associatedwith video segments into searchable databases.
CanalWeb currently carries 60 live, highly targeted video programs -about 40 hours per week on their Internet Portal. Everything frominteractive chess to progressive music, on-line games, to a show forgastronomes - CanalWeb has something for all Internet users.www.canalweb.net currently records about 300 000 unique visitors permonth.
Keynote speeches and exhibition highlights will be narrowcasted daily onwww.canalweb.net for the duration of Milia 2000, from February 14th toFebruary 18th.