The Participatory Culture Foundation: Open Tools for Open Content
The Participatory Culture Foundation is an organization founded by three young people who realized the need to create a simple platform for distributing, discovering, and subscribing to independent video content on the internet. In its words, it is “building software and web tools to create an independent, creative, engaging, and meritocratic TV system for millions of people around the world.”
Specifically, the PCF will release a Mac and Windows client software that integrates video capabilities with RSS, BitTorrent and other collaborative technologies. The Mac version has been public as a first beta release since August 2005, but the group is now getting ready for its official cross-platform release with a much anticipated launch in January 2006. Stay tuned – this could be a landmark platform for internet content.
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[...] In a previous post, OpenBusiness reported on efforts by the Participatory Culture Foundation to create an open and simple distribution platform for video and independent television over the Internet. Much of their vision has reached a first milestone today with the 1.0 release of their Windows video player and browser Democracy (getdemocracy.com). The corresponding “Broadcast Machine” also launched today and allows producers to easily publish using BitTorrent, RSS and other distribution mechanisms. In addition, the group recently launched VideoBomb.com as a destination website for users to share and discover video content. [...]