Web video management debuts

Medialink Worldwide has introduced Mediaseed, a Web-based content management platform that offers a digital suite of collaboration, archiving, distribution, publishing and evaluation features for corporate marketing and communications professionals, reports CNN Money.

Audience interest in professionally produced Web video is on the rise. Recent estimates from digital media research firm, comScore, which include passive viewing from rich media banner advertising, suggest that as much as 70% of the total US Internet audience is exposed to streaming video.

"We believe that Medialink is uniquely positioned to help marketers and professional communicators make the thousands of announcements even more compelling with well-crafted and precisely delivered video and audio," says Laurence Moskowitz, CEO of Medialink.

Google has denied suggestions that the terms and conditions for its Google Docs & Spreadsheets service mean it owns any user's content published in the application, reports News.com.

Google Docs is part of the Google Apps platform, which offers a Web-based calendar, e-mail and document management system, and allows users to publish and share documents.

The controversy centres on Google's terms and conditions which states: "By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such content on Google services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services."

The Plone Foundation has unveiled a new version of its open source content management software, emphasising improvements in ease of use and the addition of automatic versioning throughout the product, reports InfoWorld.

The project got under way in 2000 and the software has been downloaded over one million times, according to Alexander Limi, Plone's co-founder. Users include eBay, the US Central Intelligence Agency and Novell.

Plone remains a community effort with the Plone Foundation, in place since 2004, acting as a support organisation for the software, its development and marketing. The foundation is the legal owner of the Plone code.