On this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with Mike Hudack, one of the founders of the video sharing service blip.tv. Mike had seen Udell's essay on walled gardens. They discussed blip.tv's current and future efforts to ensure that videos, as well as metadata about videos, flow freely on the web.
Blip.tv is working with Dabble, FireAnt, Technorati, and others in a collaboration called Video Vertigo to federate video-specific metadata, such as viewership stats, as well as general metadata such as tags.
They also discuss the evolution of web video genres, from rips of TV and movies to original friends-and-family material to serialized entertainment to sharing of domain knowledge and experience.
Mike Hudack is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of blip.tv. He is responsible for overseeing all business, site and software development, and integration with private labels. Before blip.tv, Hudack was a senior programmer and systems administrator for the National Hockey League. He managed the team responsible for one of the biggest IT projects in the history of the League: consolidating and re-developing the NHL's internal applications, which serve hundreds of employees using dozens of technologies ranging from the IBM AS/400 to Sun's J2EE to Lotus Notes to Perl.
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