WWW 2008 / Panel Overview

April 21-25, 2008 · Beijing, China

Panel

Rich Media and Web 2.0
Edward Chang
Google Research, China

edchang@google.com Susanne Boll
University of Oldenburg, Germany

Wei-Ying Ma
Microsoft Research, Asia

Ken Ong
Google, USA

wyma@microsoft.com

susanne.boll@informa tik.uni-oldenburg.de PANEL SUMMARY or OVERVIEW

kenong@google.com

Rich media data, such as video, imagery, music, and gaming, do no longer play just a supporting role on the World Wide Web to text data. Thanks to Web 2.0, rich media is the primary content on sites such as Flickr, PicasaWeb, YouTube, and QQ. Because of massive user generated content, the volume of rich media being transmitted on the Internet has surpassed that of text. It is vital to properly manage these data to ensure efficient bandwidth utilization, to support effective indexing and search, and to safeguard copyrights (just to name a few). This panel invites both researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges of Web-scale media-data management. In particular, the panelists will address issues such as leveraging Rich Media and Web 2.0, indexing, search, and scalability

Categories & Subject Descriptors: The following is just an example: H.4.0 [Information Systems]: Information Systems ­ General. General Terms: Algorithms, Design, Human Factors, Performance.

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). WWW 2008, April 21­25, 2008, Beijing, China. ACM 978-1-60558-085-2/08/04.

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