Weather Plus Launch

Every once in a while you get an opportunity to build something that you don’t normally build. This is a great opportunity and challenge, Weather Plus brought me that challenge. From the beginning of February until now I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with a group who is really pushing the limits of video on the web. To meet their needs I work with a highly talented group of developers to envision and create a video content management system that aggregates content from UGC, Weather Plus and television affiliate users. The purpose of this tool is to re purpose content in as many ways possible to easily reuse it in as many place as possible.

This challenged us in many ways. How do you make content easily travel between different CMS’s, blogs, and television. We solved these problems and more thanks to evolving web standards. Technologies like MRSS, embeded flash players, MP4 and flash video we were able to create a highly extensible video CMS that powers a great site.