Following on the heels of our developer kitchens in Cambridge and Sydney, the App Cloud team hit the road (and the rails and the skies) to train another 30 web developers in Paris, London and Munich. Three cities in three days, with barely enough time to stop and sample the local cuisine!

In late June, Brightcove hosted a one-day developer kitchen for 30 intreprid beta testers of App Cloud, our new content app platform. After a few hours of training and a few drinks—and armed only with HTML5 skills—the developers set off to build some apps.

On June 29th, we kicked off the Developer Early Access Program for Brightcove App Cloud with a full day "Developer Kitchen" event at our headquarters in Cambridge. A select group of around 30 developers participated in the event and had the opportunity to test drive App Cloud and see the power behind this new innovation.

Brightcove has always been proud to offer a platform user-friendly enough for the average non-technical business user, but robust enough for the savviest developer modifications to create truly unique and customized video experiences on the web.

Presentation Focus: Brightcove goes Mobile!

Live Broadcast Link: (Presentations start at 7pm ET)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid73672450001?bctid=73678119001


More information about the agenda:
http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Brightcove-Developer-Group/calendar/13170056/

This is the second in a series of articles on video advertising.  I'll be writing about what VAST is, why this standard is so important, and what's happening with VAST 2.

This is the first in a series of articles on video advertising.  To start this series off, I wanted to give a general overview of how video advertising works from the point-of-view of a Brightcove player.  The slides below are adapted from a presentation I gave at 360Flex a few months ago.

Over the next month or two, I'll be writing a series of technical articles on video advertising.   You'll learn more about how the ad lifecycle, the standards that have emerged for video ads, and what's in the video ad future.  If you're a developer who doesn't know much about advertising, this is a great time to learn!  So, before you install Adblock on this series, here's a few reasons to read more:

Live Broadcast Link:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid73672450001?bctid=73678119001

For more info on tonight's event:
http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Brightcove-Developer-Group/calendar/12746366/

This evening will be the latest in the London BDG series: Brightcove for Mobile.  For a full highlights fo the evening head over here to get the details

http://www.meetup.com/London-Brightcove-Developer-Group/calendar/12457896/

But in our interest to mindshare and help the community we'll be live streaming the event - starting at around 6.30pm GMT we'll go to about 8.30pm with 3 or 4 speakers.

It's going to be a very exciting year for us at the LBDG as we start a monthly series of events designed for you to get the most of Brightcove and the emerging Online Video industry.

To kick things off, as you probably all know, we're starting with Brightcove for Live Streaming!

We've got an exciting line of presenters for you:

Some great activity happening in our developer community, with new open SDKs released for Brightcove's APIs for PHP and JavaScript developers.  It's exciting to see online video moving into being a real set of developer platforms that web developers can use for integrating video and rich media into their sites in easy ways.