Archive for June, 2007

30 content partners

Published by The Babelgum team on June 15, 2007 in Various. 4 Comments

We have just announced deals with 30 networks, broadcasters and content providers who have decided to distribute content on Babelgum. We’re proud to have important partners in such a variety of content ranging from sports to documentaries, from cartoons to news and music. It’s the first step towards building an Internet platform of professional content from all over the world, both from broadcasters and independent producers.

Here are the links, so that you can check them out. Most of them are already available, others are being uploaded as we post.

3DD – Music live performance and documentary

Associated Press – Daily feeds of news, showbiz, weather

BBC MotionGallery – Documentaries

Big Picture Limited – Lifestyle

Black Diamond – Extreme / Action Sports

Breakthru Films – Short films and animation

Entertainment Rights – Saturday morning TV. Retro cartoons etc

Fight Network – Boxing

Filmchest – Cult films

Gong Anime – Japanese animation

IMG

  • Fashion – Fashion, trends, gossip
  • Gamer TV – Gaming magazine show
  • Golf
  • Red Bull Race – Aeroplane Racing

Indivisual – Martial Arts, Circus etc, Goal Parade, Silent Films

Intervision – Travel and Literature

ITN – Daily feeds of news, showbiz, weather

Journeyman Films – Documentaries

Kiteboard Pro World Tour (GPF) – Kiteboarding

Ministry of Sound TV – Major UK dance music aggregator and distributor

Off The Fence – Nature documentaries

QOOB – Shorts and animations

Quattro Media (4M sports) – Sports content. World of freesport

Rethink Entertainment – Factual Entertainment

Reuters – Current Affairs

Rushes – Soho Film Festival

Shine Limited – Factual Entertainment

Spike Lee – Documentary / shorts

Urban Canyons – Music Programming

West Side Eclectic – Comedy

World Wide Entertainment – Sports clips and bloopers; exercise programmes

WYSIWYG – Films

Zed – Documentaries

The Guardian and Businessweek on us

Published by The Babelgum team on June 12, 2007 in Various. 1 Comment

Businessweek and The Guardian have published two articles. We thought we’d link them here to add a fresh perspective and for those of you who would like to know more.

Business week article: Babelgum’s Big Bet on Internet TV

The Guardian article(free, but registration required): Babelgum unveils web TV link-ups

The article on The Guardian anticipates some content deals with

ITN,
BBC Motion Gallery,
the Fight Network,
Black Diamond
and the Soho Shorts Festival

among others to be announced soon.

Babelgum invites: from the first to yours.

Published by The Babelgum team on June 10, 2007 in Various. 5 Comments

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It was March 2006 when CNN anticipated our invite to content providers (at the following MIPTV of April 2006) to try Babelgum. A year has gone by and today everybody can invite their friends and fellow producers/directors to watch content and soon to upload theirs.

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Every betatester has invites. You can invite by logging in on the site or right from the application (by right-clicking on the lower menu bar or on the Babelgum icon on the tray and select “Invite a friend”).

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If you want to join go looking in the blogosphere for bloggers that have invites to share.

Here we go!

Published by Babelgum on June 5, 2007 in Various. 21 Comments

It has taken a few more days than expected but we are finally there! Today we are launching our open beta phase, with a brand new release of the Babelgum client, involving a major rewrite to improve performance and several new features. The release will also showcase hundreds of hours of content, with much more to come in the next few weeks.

This is a true beta, so expect a few glitches here and there that we will do our best to fix promptly as we collect your feedback and improve the service.

Here is how the open beta launch all works. If you have already been invited as a beta tester you can download right now the new release by signing in on our new website. All pending requests will be approved in the next few days, starting today. We’ve received lots of requests, time has come to thank those applicants for their interest and patience.

Beta testers will also have unlimited invites, therefore if you want to try Babelgum right away the best thing would be to look out for a friend who already has it or check for select blogs that will soon have loads of invites to give away. You can also try our daily first-come, first-serve download lottery on our Web site. All these steps are aimed at keeping our growth pace under control for a short while until we have road tested our new infrastructure and we feel confident to fully open the download “floodgates”

In the meantime, if you enjoy being a Babelgum Beta tester you can say that out loud showing one of the badges we prepared for your blog/site.

Thanks,
The Babelgum Team