The biggest project to date from our professional services team at Brightcove launched yesterday: the new and vastly improved Showtime Video. It was great to be able to contribute to such a high profile project, especially for a company that produces shows like Weeds and Dexter, easily the best stuff coming out of premium television channels at the moment.

But what was really special about this particular project was the shift away from a large Flash player and towards a page based system utilizing just a single video player. This was something we had been eager to work on since the formation of the services team, and that we were able to implement it for a high profile partner like Showtime really made the project exciting. The benefits of this type of video experience are clear both in the usability for Showtime's viewers, and in the improved search engine visibility of their video content. I'm hoping this project will serve as an example for our other partners of what is possible with the Brightcove APIs.

Labels: brightcove, design, Projects, Video

This past weekend I visited California for the first time. We flew into San Francisco and spent a few days there, then rented a car and drove down the coast to LA to meet up with some friends. Along the way we drove the cliff road of Big Sur, and stopped at the Monterey Bay aquarium. All the photos are here.

Labels: California, Photos, Vacation