Last week at the Streaming Media conference KickApps announced a partnership with Adobe around the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) standard. CEO Alex Blum explains what the OSMF player means to site publishers and talks smack about competitor Ning.

The Streaming Media East conference is in New York again this week. One of the New York-based companies on the expo floor is Twistage. “New York looks like it’s back on the upswing,” says CTO and co-founder Dave Wegman.

Things got a little testy in the Q&A of Steve Rosenbaum’s CEO Showcase of Magnify.net at this week’s OnMedia conference.

A short impression from a panel on ‘Media 2.0 – Re-Imagining of News Media’ at last week’s Media Summit, including a welcome reality check by USA Today’s advertising SVP Brett Wilson.

Business media innovators AlwaysOn have selected New York-based Kaltura to power video on their new site, to be launched March 1st. Earlier this month Kaltura’s founder and CEO Ron Yekutiel introduced his company at the OnMedia conference.

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