Got a nice reminder from TED regarding Pangea Day’s inaugural event tomorrow:
The program on Pangea Day, May 10, is a celebration of the power of film to unite us all. You’ll see films that are funny — sad — gorgeous — stark — powerful. Voices that have never been heard before. Things you’ve never seen. Scenes from worlds you didn’t know existed. A cross-section of our amazing, complicated, noisy, beautiful world. Tune in or find a viewing party to watch on May 10, 2008, at 6:00 PM GMT. Click here to find the many ways to watch.
As a marketer, Pangea Day is worth watching closely as it brings together a number of Web 2.0 possibilities:
- User-generated content
- Cause-based communities
- Video sourced from all over the world
- Education through entertainment
- For profit and non-profit collaborations
- Video from and to any source (see Nokia Mobile Film making awards)
And just in case you’d prefer to following along in Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese or Spanish, this too will be possible courtesy in ingenuous subtitling service called DotSub. DotSub was developed by Michael Smolens, who also happens to be a good tennis player, which is how I got to know him. More on DotSub:
dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download. Recognizing the potential of global communication powered by the Internet, the founders of dotSUB created a web-based tool that enables video to be accessed in an open, collaborative, “wiki” type environment. The dotSUB tool gives anyone the ability to translate video content into multiple languages via subtitles rendered over the bottom of the video.