August’s global issue of Business 2.0 has selected 32 relevant startups around the world: we’re very happy to be in.
See Erick Schonfeld’s blog with the 32 start ups map
See the article on CNN Money
Archive for July, 2007
We’re celebrating the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival on Babelgum by launching the dedicated channel showcasing the cinematic masterpieces of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
We’re saving the best for tomorrow when you’ll be able to watch this year’s films while they’re screening at the festival.
As announced Babelgum Beta testers have voted for their favourite short film on the Giffoni channel. Lucy Gouldthorpe is the winner of the first Babelgum Award for her short Kaleidoscope and she was also presented with a €1000 cheque at Giffoni Film Festival.
Also, seven lucky Beta testers have each won a VIP Pass pass to attend the Rushes Soho shorts Festival Awards party.
On July 28th a dedicated channel on Babelgum will show over 70 shorts from the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.
We are preparing a dedicated page on our website which will be online asap.
Read the Babelgum page on Rushes Soho Shorts Festival’s website.
A few weeks ago we announced some deals. We’re starting to have up and running content and dedicated channels. One of the first is the anime series by Gong. We have dedicated a special page to Gong, where you can find detailed info and screen shots.
We have 4 VIP passes (each valid for two people) for the final day of Fib Heineken on July 22nd in Benicassim, Spain. At the same time we’re always looking out for new festivals and events to cooperate with.
We just did the math. Why not ask you guys to recommend some cool events that could benefit from the Babelgum distribution platform? We’ll hand out the 4 tickets to the 4 most interesting, funny, smart recommendations.
Send us an email, in 4 days we’ll contact the four ones we liked the most and hand out the tickets.
We’re proud to announce a media partnership with Giffoni Film Festival, Of all the festivals, that which is most necessary as François Truffaut said. What makes Giffoni so unique is the fact that it screens films for youngsters judged by a jury of youngsters.
Babelgum will show 12 shorts (8 from the 2006 edition and 4 from this year’s edition), plus 4 shorts from Giffoni Creative House project and 29 trailers of this year’s shorts. We’ve created a special page on our website with more detailed information.
You can pick a winner…
Babelgum beta testers will play an active role in assigning the Babelgum Award to one of these 12 shorts in the Giffoni Channel. The short with the highest rating at 12.00 CET of the final day July 21st will be presented with an exclusive award hand-crafted in Murano Glass.
…and get a VIP Pass.
We will randomly pick 7 beta testers among those who rated the shorts, and send them a VIP pass for the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival Awards party evening to be held in London on August 2nd 2007. Get rating!
A new release of Babelgum (0.9.1) has been released. This release includes significant user interface improvements (consistency, fluidity, responsiveness, contrast), improved search user interface and search results quality, time fillers, random seeking in videos, and several bug fixes.
What’s new in Babelgum 0.9.1?
. You can now seek to any position of a clip. Just mouse over the time bar, and click on the desired position.
. The notification of updates as well as the mechanism to download and install updates is now more robust.
. Babelgum should now connect fine if you are behind a web proxy. Please make sure that your proxy settings are correctly entered in the Internet
. Options control panel of Windows.
. The readability of dialogs has been greatly enhanced. It should be much easier to use the login, sign in, options and invite a friends dialog.
. When Babelgum is waiting for data, a “time filler” is now displayed.
. A “what’s next?” popup shows on the right of the screen to preview the next clip.
. Search is now embedded in the TV and Video dialogs.
. A teaser is displayed in the TV dialog to give the number of clips and hours of content total and added since the last login.
. One more step towards full Vista Compatibility. Babelgum does not write anything in the Program Files folder anymore.
. The splash screen is no longer full screen and gives an option to exit the application.
. The About box now contains the exact version of the Babelgum client.
. The screen saver is now disabled when you play video
. It is now easier to invite friends, as in the dialog, your first name, last name and invitation text are now remembered between 2 invites.
. In the invitation text, you can now type a message which has less than 10 characters.
. Clicking on the Babelgum tray icon now has a windows behavior.
. Fixed issue of disabled channel navigation when playing an empty playlist
. It is now possible to find content based on roles or on publisher.
. Scroll controls are now easier to click.
. Better support for multi-users.
. The upload time field for a clip should now be correct.
. Channels can now have custom branding.
All you need to upgrade to the new version is to launch your existing application and click “Update now” when the Babelgum update dialog appears.
As usual, your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
We’re happy to announce and welcome former Vodafone Global Director of Networks and Service Platforms Valerio Zingarelli as Babelgum’s new Chief Executive Officer.
Below is today’s press release for further information.