Hosted Service, for Video Media Platform
San Francisco – (Website Hosting Directory) – March 26, 2007 – Media sharing and social community solutions for businesses firm, Reality Digital, has integrated its digital media hosting platform, Reality Digital Opus, with the location identification tool, Google Maps.
The new integration was developed to enable easy identification of the geographic location of any video uploaded to Opus. Reality Digital is the first company to offer businesses a full-featured set of hosted media sharing and social networking tools that includes embedded Google Maps functionality for mapping user-generated media.
The new functionality is anticipated to make it possible for content owners to highlight their video’s exact location, helping viewers identify more closely with the content. This is done by placing a virtual ‘pushpin’ on the map, or typing in an address or location. Site owners can leverage the Opus integration of Google Maps to offer more compelling communities, enhance their brand’s value and better monetize their content. Examples of businesses for which the Opus integration of Google Maps is essential include travel sites, communities of interest and social networking sites.
David Livingston, President of Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network remarked, “Mapping the geographic location of our videos will add another level of context for the politicians, lobbyists and political enthusiasts who visit our site. Reality Digital continues to help us differentiate ourselves from the multitude of political communities online today. Our users can geographically tag their videos with the Opus integration of Google Maps to extend their level of interactivity with one another.”
Reality Digital provides enterprise customers with complete solutions to quickly and efficiently create and integrate social networking and user-generated media communities, or to add these capabilities into their websites. The Opus integration of Google Maps is another example of how the company helps business customers create environments that enable more meaningful and interactive social exchanges.
Cynthia Francis, CEO of Reality Digital added, “We see businesses struggle with piecing together third-party solutions to provide their users with a rich set of features including video sharing, blogging, and social collaboration capabilities. Not only does Opus package these tools into a simple, powerful and easy-to-use solution, but the additional Opus mapping capability underscores our commitment to developing new and relevant features that exceed the technical needs of today’s rapidly evolving social networking ecosystem.”
The Reality Digital Opus platform is a Digital Media Management Framework (DMMF) that allows for the upload, transcode and distribution of both professional and consumer generated media. The platform manages and plays back in multiple formats, and includes a rich feature set of end-user functions as well as site administration, monitoring and reporting tools.
Reality Digital is a software development company that endeavors to enable businesses to enhance their online presence through the use of user-generated content (UGC) and social networking. Comprised of an executive team with over 15 years experience creating innovative video technologies for Fortune 500 companies, Reality Digital continues to leverage its knowledge and expertise in the UGC space by allowing businesses to build and maintain a constant dialogue with their customers.
Reality Digital Opus platform is a “white label” service that allows verticals, such as retail, real estate and entertainment to support UGC content through a hosted service. Web sites can create or enhance their sites with video and media sharing and social networking features; quickly, easily and cost effectively. Reality Digital’s customers include Atom Entertainment’s AddictingClips.com, MusicPlayerNetwork’s GuitarPlayertv.com, SPARQTraining.com and others.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.
To learn more about Reality Digital, please visit: www.realitydigital.com.