User:Ktrivitt/Qlipso

Qlipso is a technology company incubated and funded by Jerusalem Venture Partners and now headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York City and Jerusalem, Israel. Qlipso builds and operates multi-user content-sharing platforms for Flash-based media. The company’s social-viewing platform allows people to extend and enhance their real-life social lives online by providing users the ability to view and share various forms of media (videos, photos, music and games) with others, live or asynchronously. Qlipso was founded in September 2007 by Ishay Pnueli, a veteran of the video game and technology industries. Jon Goldman, who previously founded and served as CEO of the video game development company Foundation 9 Entertainment, joined Qlipso as CEO in early 2009. On April 8, 2010, it was announced that Qlipso had acquired substantially all of the assets of online video portal Veoh for an undisclosed sum. Qlipso is using the acquisition to add a broad and established base of users, along with revenue, to its content-sharing service, while integrating its social-viewing features into Veoh’s mainstream online video platform.

Features
Qlipso’s multiuser content-sharing platform enables people to bridge experiences they share in real-life with their online social network through text, voice, video chat, 3D animated avatars and other social features. Qlipso has transformed the way people view and interact with online media by using shared content to serve as the context for socializing, rather than the main attraction. Qlipso combines the best elements of virtual worlds with the social experience of real-life interactions, while maintaining the familiar forms of time-shifted consumption users expect from on-demand content sites. By focusing on the user and giving people multiple ways to express themselves, Qlipso has created a more friendly and personal environment to share content. The company’s mission is to enable users to extend and enhance their real-life social lives online, creating a more intimate and rich interactive experience, while also producing a meaningful connection between friends.

Technology
Qlipso is powered by proprietary technology that provides a fast and seamless platform for people to share content with friends and communicate with them in real-time. Qlipso does not require users to visit a particular destination site before sharing media. The company’s technology instantly creates a temporary virtual media sharing space and taps into a user’s social graph, with their permission, allowing the user to invite, and then share media with friends. This interaction is completely browser-based to increase accessibility.

Management
Qlipso is led by an international team of established video game and digital media industry veterans. The company’s CEO, Jon Goldman, joined Qlipso in early 2009 after he had founded and served as the CEO of the video game development company Foundation 9 Entertainment. Qlipso’s Chief Technology Officer is Ishay Pnueli, who spent more than a decade working on Sony's PlayStation 3 development.