Video 2.0: Filling In Gaps in The Video Content Ecosystem

Kenyatta has been a leader in decentralized media and online video since the days when RTSP mattered. Considered one of the early evangelists of online video, he helped shape the aesthetics of online video with early web projects like BrowseTV, WiFiTV, and vogbrowser. He has served as a consultant for a wide range of organizations from established media players to new media startups, helping guide many early movers in the space.

He is the founder of Unmediated.org, one of the first blogs to track trends in decentralized and distributed media, and in past iterations, Kenyatta has served as Senior Technical Manager at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, and Director of Technology for Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and has led seminars on the technology of portable media at the Annenberg Center at USC. Currently, Kenyatta serves as Director of Operations for the online video show Rocketboom and advises several NGOs in the arts and media technology.

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Tim Shey is a co-founder of Next New Networks and Head of Entertainment Programming, leading the company’s programming, technology and creative development teams.

Tim has worked in interactive media for over a decade, designing and producing experiences in a variety of emerging formats including interactive television, mobile entertainment, and social media.

In 1996, Tim co-founded Proteus, a pioneering interactive agency and mobile content company, where he was responsible for the first-ever interactive television broadcast in the U.S. using mobile phones during FOX’s Super Bowl XXXVI, co-produced four seasons of interactive TV for FOX Sports’ MLB, NFL, and NASCAR broadcasts and NBC’s 2004 Olympic Games, and developed numerous other innovative projects including network-wide mobile content offerings for HBO, ABC, Discovery Channel, and FOX. His ten years’ work as a creative director included major campaigns for clients including Sony, The Washington Post-Newsweek, ExxonMobil, and Motorola, among others.

After Proteus’ successful acquisition in 2004 by the Japan-based For-Side Group, Tim went on to work with a number of organizations on their interactive strategies and produced original content for the web and mobile devices including Amanda Across America, with Amanda Congdon, the animated series Afterworld, and the everydog show Worldwide Fido.

Tim’s personal blog is at shey.net.

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Jim Louderback joined Revision3 as the CEO in July 2007. Louderback has spent 16 years in various media and technology management roles, including leading editorial and lab efforts for PC Week, and being on the launch team for ZDTV/TechTV. He most recently served as senior vice president and editorial director for Ziff Davis Media’s Consumer group, along with being Editor-in-Chief of PC magazine.

Ricky Van Veen is a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the world’s most popular humor website CollegeHumor.com, which reaches seven million young people monthly. He founded the site in 1999 while a freshman at Wake Forest University.

He is a co-author of CollegeHumor’s Guide To College, published by Penguin and is currently producing a CollegeHumor branded comedy for Paramount Pictures and a television show for MTV.

In August 2006 he sold his company Connected Ventures (which by then comprised additional websites and an apparel business) to Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Today Connected Ventures operates out of its Union Square offices with over fifty-five full-time employees. Ricky continues to oversee the editorial content on CollegeHumor as well as the site’s highly successful original video initiatives. He is also charged with starting new content-based websites for the company.

Ricky is 27 and lives in the West Village, NYC.