More and more video platforms pop up every day. The major TV networks have portals. There are hundreds of sites showing off various slices of the millions and millions of hours of video footage available to your eye. And beyond entertainment, there are corporate, legal, academic, and other reasons to need to know where to find the "good stuff." How can we search? What is the difference between search and discovery? Who's guiding the Internet user to great video content?

Mary Hodder is CEO of Dabble, a recently launched company aiming to be ‘the most comprehensive search and remix community on the planet’, by helping users organize, search, tag, describe and promote video.

An information architect and ‘live web’ search expert, she has worked with companies in open source, photo sharing and search services. She blogs at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and was an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy).

She has a Masters from UC Berkeley’s School of Information, researching digital media and information technology, traditional journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities.

Scott Kirsner is the "Innovation Economy" columnist at the Boston Globe. He edits the blog CinemaTech ( http://cinematech.blogspot.com), which focuses on the ways that new technologies are changing the entertainment industry, and is the author of The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers, published in March 2007. Scott's writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Business Week, Salon.com, and Newsweek, among other publications. Scott is also one of the founders of the annual Nantucket Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation ( www.nantucketconference.com ), and Future Forward: The New England Technology Summit ( www.futureforward.com). He can be reached at kirsner@pobox.com.

Pete Kocks is the Chief Architect of AOL Video and the Senior Architect at Truveo, where he oversaw the company's core technology platform.



Prior to Truveo, Pete helped launch three software startups in the fields of video surveillance, database monitoring, and application hosting. At Presidio Technology, he led the development of a distributed video surveillance system with a unique approach to indexing video streams. As one of the founders of BayGate, he led the development of a database monitoring system from inception to deployment in the mission-critical datacenters of dozens of large corporate customers. BayGate was acquired by Portal Software in 2001. Previously, as one of the first employees of Digitivity, a startup that developed and brought to market a Java application server, he guided the technical and business relationship with Citrix systems that ultimately led to its acquisition by Citrix in 1998.



Pete holds a doctoral degree from Stanford University where his research focused on systems modeling and computation. Pete holds an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Matthew Scheybeler joined blinkx in 2004 as a technical director. He began his career at Autonomy Corporation, where he spent three years, advancing from programmer to team leader. While at Autonomy, Matt became highly proficient in rich media-related technology. Prior to joining blinkx, he founded his own consultancy firm, Automatic Software, where he worked with a variety of mobile and enterprise search companies. Matt holds a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University.

Tom Wilde is a widely recognized leader in the field of Internet search and online advertising, and prior to becoming PodZinger’s CEO has held numerous leadership roles in the field, including SVP/GM of the consumer division at domain portfolio company NameMedia; senior vice president and general manager of MIVA Inc.'s North American division, responsible for both MIVA's U.S. online advertising network, as well as the company's consumer business; and senior operating roles managing Terra Lycos' global search and publishing divisions. Tom has also served on the IAB Search Engine Committee and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.