• Display of a Kyte pre-roll video before each show is played
• Display of a Kyte post-roll image after each show is watched
• Kyte branded flash game representing an integration of a custom flash app
• Kyte branded flash element in the channel header
• E-commerce integration: iTunes Music Store for Raheem DeVaughn

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The Kyte Platform goes beyond ad revenue opportunities by providing integrated e-commerce capabilities.

The Kyte Player's custom linking capabilities means brands can easily drive sales by linking to affiliate e-commerce destinations. More sophisticated, in-player transactions can be achieved through the integration of custom Flash applications, including e-commerce modules such as:

• Merchandise

  Sell shirts, hats or anything else through e-commerce that integrates with your existing merch retailer

• Ring tones

  Sell ring tones directly from the Kyte Player

• Music sales

  Through iTunes, Amazon or any online retailer

• Ticket sales

  Integrate with leading online ticketing agencies

Ready to get started with E-commerce?


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Share life as it happens with Kyte Mobile Producer.

Use your iPhone to share photos on Myspace, Facebook, or any website, blog or mobile phone. Instantly broadcast pictures as you take them, or create slideshows from your iPhone's picture gallery. You can even chat with your audience real-time!

Send content from any mobile phone to a unique channel email address to instantly publish a show – meaning almost any mobile phone can be used for show production.

Every Kyte Channel has a unique channel e-mail address. You can e-mail pictures and videos to your Kyte Channel and they are instantly published. Video files should not be larger then 100MB. You can send these e-mails from your computer or from any camera phone.

Here's a quick helper:

• Open channels: channelname@kyte.tv
• Channels with access code: channelname.1234@kyte.tv
  (1234: access code)
• E-mail subject: creates Kyte show title
• Attached pictures: turns into Kyte slide show
• Attached video file: turns into Kyte video show

All fields are optional, except the channel name (i.e. e-mail address).

Thanks for your interest in Kyte. Please complete the following form and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Thanks for your interest in Kyte. We will be in contact within the next couple of business days.

San Francisco

Working with our CMO and marketing team (US and EU based), you’ll help manage day-to-day marketing activities, including presentation development, messaging, brand management, corporate communications, website, brand advertising and demand generation.

Funded by world leaders in mobile and convergent communications including Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and Telefonica, to name just a few— this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of media and entertainment.

The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.

Responsibilities Include:

• Events management
• PR and corporate communications
• Management of PR agency
• Management of Creative agency
• Management of “Kytestars” online promotional team
• Develop blog strategy and editorial calendar
• Develop presentations and other support materials for Business Development
• Manage website content and metrics reporting
• Brand and messaging management
• Competitive analysis and market research
• Lead nurturing strategy and execution
• Copywriting

Requirements:

• 5+ years relevant experience, ideally in both consumer internet and media / entertainment
• Ability to think creatively, provide direction and planning
• Experience in all facets of technology marketing, including:
• PR (traditional and social media)
• Messaging/Positioning
• Events
• Branding
• Web/SEO/SEM
• Viral
• Collateral, Presentations
• Online advertising
• Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion
• Thorough understanding and aptitude for complex technologies
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications

Interested parties please email resume to .

Kyte is a game changing social communications platform combining user generated content, social networking and mobile services. We’re seeking an experienced marketing pro to help drive global strategy and execution.

Working with our CMO and marketing team (US and EU based), you’ll help manage day-to-day marketing activities, including presentation development, messaging, brand management, corporate communications, website, brand advertising and demand generation.

Funded by the founders of Skype and the VCs behind Hotmail, Overture, and Skype, to name just a few, this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of social communications.

The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.

Requirements:

• 5+ years relevant experience, ideally in both consumer internet and b2b
• Ability to think creatively, provide direction, and planning
• Experience in all facets of technology marketing, including:
• PR (traditional and social media)
• Messaging/Positioning
• Events
• Branding
• Web/SEO/SEM
• Viral
• Collateral, Presentations
• Online advertising
• Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion.
• Thorough understanding and aptitude for complex technologies
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications

Interested parties please email resume to .

Are you passionate about mobile devices and applications? Has your mobile phone turned out to be one of the most important gadgets of your professional and private life? You are an enthusiastic person interested in user-generated content and social networking? Become part of Kyte!

We are looking for a Senior Mobile Software Engineer who will play a key role in developing mobile client software including the next generation of our client application 'Kyte Mobile' for several platforms. Our engineers continue to create new ways for people create media, share, and connect with others. Our mobile software team is comprised of talented engineers who work on problems unique to mobile devices.

This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience with mobile client development on constrained resource devices such as mobile phones and PDAs in Java/C++
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP-based network protocols such as HTTP
• Good understanding of XML, binary, and text-based protocol design
• Strong experience with J2ME including MIDP 2.0 and MMAPI
• Experience with J2ME UI frameworks such as j2mepolish
• Experience optimizing J2ME applications for size, performance, and cross-handset compatibility
• Basic knowledge of SMS capabilities and limitations
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects on time
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work directly with QA, PM, and marketing
• Skill in managing technology vendor and partner relationships
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Willingness to learn and to teach
• BS, MS or PhD in computer science or equivalent.
  

Highly desired experience:

• Experience with multiple mobile carriers both domestic and foreign
• Symbian/Series 60 C++ application development experience
• Familiarity with ffmpeg and other tools for transcoding between various media formats for mobile such as h264, wmv, 3gpp
• Some experience with J2EE server development
• Knowledge of BREW, Windows Mobile, Palm, or embedded Linux platforms Experience with JVP, TrueBREW, UTI, Symbian Signed, other mobile app. certification programs

We are seeking a bright, talented, and proactive developer who loves working on web service products, is adaptable when dealing with cross-browser issues, and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.

Main responsibilities include:

• Maintain and upgrade the product website
• Leverage existing technology to develop consumer-facing web pages using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Coordinate with team leads/architects during technical design
• Perform unit testing and provide guidance/support during QA/system testing
• Resolve defects during QA testing and in-post patch releases

Requirements:

• Expert HTML, JavaScript and CSS skills with strong cross-browser knowledge
• Experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript
• Strong communication skills and willingness to learn and share knowledge.

Bonus:

• Development experience with AS3 or AJAX
• Development experience in Java, C#, or C++
• Experience with JSP server-side web framework
• Experience working closely with Design teams
• Personal interest in user-generated content and media
• Experience working on community web services

General Summary

We are seeking a passionate person with strong communication skills and interest in the Web 2.0 business to support our marketing and business development team in Zurich.

Responsibilities

• Self-dependent and motivated support of the marketing and business development team (6 persons) focusing on administrative and organizational activities
• Back-office coordination (mail, expenses, book-keeping, coordination of meetings, …)
• Business travel preparations and accounting of expenses
• Preparation and translation of powerpoint slides (English, German)
• Database maintenance and creation statistics
• Experience/Skills
• Strong interest in the Internet and Web 2.0 business
• Proven experience in a similar job
• Expert in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Experience with photo and video editing tools beneficial
• Excellent communicator and organization skills
• Language skills (German, English)
• Highly motivated, self-dependent worker with strong attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure
• Strong project management and operational skills

Applying

Send your resume and letter of motivation to Walter Zai (). Extra points for creating a channel and telling us a bit about yourself on Kyte.

General Summary

You’re passionate about Web 2.0, familiar with technologies and at home in all the social networks? This is exactly what the International Project Engineer will be responsible for: Kyte integrations into our partners’ platforms. We are seeking a creative and self-dependent sales engineer with great communication skills. The position is located in the European headquarter in Zurich.

Experience/Skills

• Experience with Web 2.0 projects, including homepage design, API integrations and conception
• Proven experience with HTML, XHTML, PHP, Java, Flash
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of rapidly changing marketplaces
• Results-oriented, self-motivated team player and a professional presence
• Strong communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral (German and English)
• Deep technical understanding of consumer technologies, including audio/video, mobile and Internet media
• Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail
• Strong project management and operational skills
• Proven ability to meet goals and consistently meet deadlines
• Willingness to travel
• Respective experience in a similar position in the Internet business

Applying

Send your resume and letter of motivation to Walter Zai (). Extra points for creating a channel and telling us a bit about yourself on Kyte.

This position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco. This position is ideal for someone who is a big picture thinker, understands future trends, and at the same time, is not afraid to roll up their sleeves to get the job done.

Requirements:

• Experience designing outstanding, award-winning solutions for Internet services or product interfaces.
• Excellent typography, visual design and illustration skills applied to user interface design. Advocacy for simplicity and consistency.
• Proven ability to propose usable interaction flows applying the User Centered Design Process from concept to implementation.
• Ability to think on your feet and “get it done.” Readiness to apply common sense and skip all those complicated time-consuming academic process steps mentioned above when necessary.
• Talent to quickly create convincing sketches and UE prototypes as well as precise graphical assets.
• Proven experience collaborating closely with Designers, Engineers, Business Owners and QA experts. Ability to take constructive feedback from anybody in the team regardless of rank and background.
• Solid technical understanding, ability to make proposals that are both implement-able and delightful to the end user.
• Solid Experience in all common design tools like Illustrator, Photoshop and especially Flash.
• BA or BFA degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Interaction Design or related field

Desirable:

• Previous experience in the development of online communities, social networks, widget-based applications, or mobile games/applications.
• Ability to map interface behavior consistently between cell phones, handhelds, browsers, televisions and kiosks.
• Experience developing with HTML, DHTML, Java, Flash, and/or AJAX formats.

You are not just fluent in English but also in Java/C++? Spring isn’t just a season for you? Beside that, you know what’s going on in the world of user-generated content and social networking. We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a sound understanding of new technologies and enthusiasm in building highly-scalable system infrastructures. This position is full-time and you will be working out of our office overlooking Union Square in San Francisco, close to MUNI and BART.

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience writing high-performance, web-related software with Java/C++
• Expert with object-oriented framework and design
• Expert with client/server networked applications
• In-depth knowledge of Unix, Windows, web servers, and application servers
• Experience building highly scalable enterprise systems
• Ability to write clean, coherent code
• Ability to understand and master new technologies quickly
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Willingness to learn and to teach

Highly desired experience:

• AJAX and other "rich web" techniques
• Mobile web/WAP development
• Spring (or other IoC containers)
• Hibernate (or other ORM tools)
• Build systems such as Ant
• Performance testing tools such as Grinder
• Familiarity with Perforce
• Already being a kyter doesn’t hurt

If this sounds interesting to you, please reply by email to , paste a cover letter and resume into the body of the message, and write "Backend-Your Name" (i.e. Backend-Jane Smith) in the subject line. Please note that no attachments will be opened.

Kyte is a game changing social communications platform combining user generated content, social networking and mobile services. We’re seeking a passionate software engineer to play a key role in helping 3rd party companies to integrate Kyte into their systems.

Reporting to our Senior Vice President of Engineering and working closely with our server development team, you’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining showcase websites as well as acting as a first line of support for 3rd party integrators.

Funded by the founders of Skype and the VCs behind Hotmail and Overture, to name just a few, this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of social communications.

The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.

Responsibilities Include:

• Acting as the first line of support and point of contact for 3rd party implementers of our APIs
• Working with the guidance of our design team to implement and update our Kyte.tv showcase website
• Working with our server team to document and clarify our backend APIs

Requirements:

• 3+ years of programming experience including experience integrating Web 2.0-style APIs
• Recent programming experience in HTML, XHTML, and Javascript, as well as experience in PHP, Java, Flash (Actionscript), Ruby (Rails), and/or .NET languages
• Thorough understanding of XML and JSON encoding
• Experience working with REST and/or XMLRPC style RPC API’s
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with 3rd party integration partners as a representative of the company
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communications (English primarily, fluency in German, French, Italian, Czech, or Spanish is a bonus)

Please note that this list applies to the Kyte Mobile J2ME Application. The iPhone optimized Kyte Mobile Web works on any phone with a mobile web browser.

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San Francisco Headquarters

Kyte

442 Post Street, 10th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone: +1 415 986 4794

Europe Office

Kyte GmbH

Baechtoldstrasse 5

8044 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: +41 43 344 93 07

San Francisco

Kyte is a game changing social communications platform combining user generated content, social networking and mobile services. We’re seeking an experienced software product management professional to drive product lifecycle management, with a focus on partner integrations, API development, and implementing ad-based revenue models.

Reporting to our Chief Marketing Officer and working closely with user experience and product engineering, you’ll manage product lifecycle activities, including platform and API roadmap prioritization and execution. You’ll also work closely with business development, managing partner integrations, requests and feedback.

Funded by world leaders in mobile and convergent communications including Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and Telefonica, to name just a few— this is a rare opportunity to get involved at an early stage and help shape the future of social communications.

The position is full-time and you’ll be working out of our offices overlooking Union Square in San Francisco.

Responsibilities Include:

• Managing product lifecycle activities, including platform and API roadmap prioritization and execution
• Managing the release cycle of partner integrations and platform releases
• Integration of revenue models, including ad serving
• Acting as primary point of contact / liaison between Kyte and partner integration teams
• Producing / collating new ideas and product requirements from users, partners, usability studies, and the executive team
• Planning, managing and reporting day-to-day product development
• Monitoring industry and competitive trends
• Creating Product Requirements Documents with detailed feature/functionality specifications
• Managing communication with the engineering, marketing, and business development teams
• Developing business-level API documentation and partner marketing materials
• Managing and expanding the developer website

Requirements:

• Relevant software industry experience, ideally in consumer internet and b2b or enterprise software (mobile and carrier experience a big plus)
• Ability to pragmatically evaluate technical issues, commercial concerns and partner needs
• Ability to appreciate the higher-level business and strategic goals of the organization, and translate them into product features
• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals, teams, customers and prospects
• Ability to manage the life cycle of the product
• Excellent problem-solving abilities
• Ability to self-manage, and accurately prioritize your responsibilities
• Proven experience managing complex projects to successful completion
• Thorough understanding and aptitude for complex technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communications

San Francisco Bay Area

General Summary



Are you passionate about creating first-rate user experiences? Do you have a gift for building and inspiring a team of design & development professionals to engage and delight users? Venture-backed, international mobile and web media company seeks a qualified candidate to lead user experience and design (UED) team. The company’s products are focused on interactive multi-media shows that can be created and shared on the web or via mobile devices. The Director of UED position will report to the chief product officer as part of the Product Engineering team. 



Responsibilities



You will be primarily responsible for managing a team of creative professionals who are in charge of the overall user experience on multiple mobile clients, embeddable flash widgets, and websites. This includes information architecture, usability engineering, visual design, and overall user experience. In order to do this effectively, you will need to lead the team in developing a strategy and process for UI architecture & design, including wireframes, prototypes, usability testing and production of necessary assets for product development. Knowledge of PC, Internet, and mobile applications, interaction models and consumer behavior patterns is mandatory. Experience with media, user generated content, and social applications is a major plus. 



You will work with product management, engineering, QA, marketing, business development, and the overall executive team on product features and creative elements for marketing communication. A key part of your job will be as an internal evangelist for user experience design and helping to prioritize product development tasks accordingly. 



Experience/Skills

• Savvy designer with 7+ years in a UED capacity for consumer oriented technology products and services
• 3-5 years management experience
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of rapidly changing marketplaces
• Proven ability to meet goals and consistently meet deadlines
• Results-oriented, self-motivated team player and a professional presence
• Strong communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral, balanced by a flexible demeanor and ability to sometimes put aside personal preference
• Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail
• Deep technical understanding of consumer technologies, including audio/video, mobile and Internet media
• Strong business, communications, project management and operational skills

Education



Required: BA/BS in Industrial Design, Human Factors, Interaction Design, Graphic Design and/or similar experience. Advanced degrees highly desirable. 



Reach and engage employees, customers and investors

For organizations of any size, Kyte provides a powerful solution for mobile and webcam video communications. Organizations can broadcast live or pre-recorded video to their website or intranet with a minimum of effort. Integration can be accomplished in minutes through the use of simple embed code - or, using the Kyte Developer API, partners can rapidly harness and customize the full power of the Kyte social communications platform.

Multimedia chat, RSS and SMS notification services keep employees, partners - or any type of internal or external audience - up-to-date with the latest content and channel activity.

Contact us to learn more about Kyte for corporate communications.

Giving content creators and publishers a dynamic, multimedia platform

For bloggers and website operators of any size, Kyte provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution for mobile and webcam video blogging. Like carrying a pocket-sized production studio, publishers can broadcast live or pre-recorded video while on the go to their blog or website with a minimum of effort. No need to be a video expert or even know the first thing about video production – with Kyte, a mobile phone or webcam, anyone can publish video.

But blogs aren’t just about one-way communications – they’re about starting a conversation.  Kyte provides a way to take this conversation to the next level through real-time video, audio and text chat. Readers can stay up to date through RSS feeds and Kytefeed notifications.

Contact us to learn more about Kyte for bloggers.

Increasing ARPU through social networking, user generated and premium content

Kyte is an enabling social communications platform providing mobile networks with a highly interactive user-generated content solution that allows subscribers to share life as it happens through mobile video, pictures, and multimedia chat.

Kyte brings the world of social networking to mobile operators, seamlessly bridging the web and mobile experience and driving mobile users to the operator’s online web presence.

Through media and entertainment partners, Kyte delivers premium content to mobile networks while providing additional revenue-generating opportunities through premium accounts, increasing the carrier’s average revenue per user.

Kyte Mobile brings the full Kyte experience to a wide range of devices, from Symbian and J2ME-capable phones to any internet-enabled mobile device. Learn more about Kyte Mobile

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Ushering in the next level of communications for social networks

Dynamic video, photo, interactive and exclusive content delivered through profiles and shared among members provides a rich media experience that engages users and encourages creative self-expression.

By offering users a new level of rich media social communications, Social Networks can attract new users and retain their existing user-base in the highly competitive world of social networking and community sites.

The Kyte platform provides social networks new revenue opportunities through premium account services, premium content and channel sponsorships.

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For both new and established recording artists, Kyte delivers a game changing social communications platform and branded experience, expanding audience reach, building fan communities and increasing sales.

[Kyte artist Channel Guide]

Taking media and entertainment to new heights with digital entertainment promotion and monetization.

In today’s world of reality-based media, camera phones and interactive social networking, it’s more important than ever for artists to establish an authentic bond with their audience. Posting music videos to video sharing sites just doesn’t cut it. Fans want to truly connect with the artists they love in more meaningful and intimate ways.

The Kyte Premium Player provides custom player branding, viral distribution and ecommerce integration with unmatched revenue and promotional potential. With Kyte, media and entertainment professionals can easily deliver exclusive, behind-the-scenes content across websites, blogs, social networks and mobile phones – creating a lasting connection with fans and consumers while monetizing their entertainment and media properties.

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For social networks, media companies, artists, small publishers and mobile operators, Kyte provides a turnkey communications platform for content creation, promotion, and user monetization through an engaging social communications experience.

Integration partners can earn revenue by offering paid accounts with premium features to their end users. Similar to other successful products, e.g. Flickr Pro, integration partners can offer their end-users features such as:

• Private channels
• Ad free channels
• Larger file uploads and live streaming durations
• Media lockers to access and download media files in their original format
• Higher resolution encoding

Kyte offers new promotional possibilities for brand advertisers to reach highly targeted communities. This means media companies, popular video bloggers, entertainers – or anyone with an audience - can monetize content by selling channel or show sponsorships to brand marketers.

To learn more about how Kyte can monetize your content please email .

Kyte provides an unparalleled platform for the viral distribution of revenue generating digital content.

The ability to combine and deliver various types of digital content – including live streaming video and images – provides new monetization opportunities for a broad variety of premium content, including:

• Live streaming online events
• Music and music videos
• Exclusive behind the scenes footage
• News and celebrity gossip
• Serial online programming
• Multiple billing and deliver options.

• Monthly / annual subscriptions
• Premium SMS/MMS
• Mobile operator service subscription bundles
• Pay-per-view micropayments
• Mobile data usage charges

Designed to meet the needs of our media and entertainment partners, the Kyte Premium Player sets a new standard in digital artist promotion and online brand building.

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The Kyte Developer API is a standards compliant programming interface that exposes the full set of Kyte services to independent developers and Kyte integration partners.

The Kyte Developer API enables partners – including social networks and mobile operators – to rapidly harness and customize the full power of the Kyte social communications platform, providing their end users with an engaging and easy to use social media experience, including live webcam streaming, slideshows, friend activity mini-feeds and video chat.

Kyte provides a seamless experience across online and mobile, which means through integration of the full Kyte platform online publishers and social networks can easily go mobile, and mobile operators can add rich social media capabilities to their online portals, bridging the mobile and online experience and extracting more value from customers.

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The Full Kyte Experience – On the Go.

Kyte Mobile allows anyone to share life as it happens with an online and mobile audience - in real-time, from anywhere. For on-the-go content producers, Kyte Mobile Producer provides a powerful yet easy to use mobile production studio that fits in your pocket. Live video streaming; show production and browsing – even multimedia video chatting – all from the palm of your hand.

Mobile phones vary greatly in capability – from full-featured 3G multimedia devices with 5MP video cameras to basic camera phones with limited web browsers – and everything in between. Kyte makes things simple by providing several ways to go mobile, ensuring that the widest possible audience can experience Kyte Mobile.

Kyte Mobile Producer for S60 (Private Beta)

Produce live streaming and recorded video and pictures from any compatible camera phone with Kyte Mobile Producer for S60. Features one-click upload, live video streaming and high production quality.

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Kyte Mobile Producer for iPhone

Use your iPhone to instantly share photos with your audience on Myspace, Facebook, or any website, blog or mobile phone.

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Kyte Mobile Production via Email

Users without a Kyte Mobile Producer supported phone can still produce shows on the go. Simply emailing video or pictures to your special Kyte Channel email address instantly produces a show.

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Kyte Mobile Web

Optimized for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, Kyte Mobile Web delivers the Kyte experience to any web-enabled mobile device, including the ability to search and browse Channels, watch shows and chat with other viewers.

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Kyte Mobile Application for J2ME

Kyte Mobile Application on a Java-capable phone provides the ability to instantly broadcast pictures, browse and view Kyte Shows, stay up-to-date with recent activity through the Kytefeed, and connect with an audience through multimedia chat. View compatible Phones.

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Account management and advanced show production tools.

My Kyte (www.kyte.tv) is where Producers create and customize their channels or produce media mash-ups combining photos, video, webcam and more using simple drag-and-drop widgets. My Kyte also provides users with a single convenient location to view and interact with the Kyte Channels they subscribe to or search and browse for new content.

Administrative Features

Channel Creation – Users create Kyte Channels and customize their look-and-feel.

Channel Moderation & Access – Kyte’s channel management tools provide safeguards against unwanted or nefarious content. The channel owner decides if anyone can produce to the channel; whether shows produced by others should be moderated and approved before going live; if chat should be closed, open or moderated; and whether or not to filter out profanity.

Channel Visibility – Users can set whether or not their Channel is visible in the public areas of My Kyte and Kyte Mobile Web.

Channel Embedding – Several advanced embed functions not available in the Kyte Player are accessible from My Kyte, including “wide” and “tall” players.

Twitter Integration – Twitter users can configure Kyte to sent a Twit each time they produce a show.

Advanced Show Production Features

Pictures & Slideshows – Create slideshows with custom transitions; reorder, delete or add slides; even set the ideal speed.

Video & Webcam – Add video or webcam with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Music Player – Add high quality licensed music to any show.

Text & Links – Create links or add text.

Polls – Add interactivity by creating polls.

The Kyte Premium Player can be delivered as a custom branded Facebook application, allowing artists to connect with fans and deliver a branded experience to one of the most popular social networks on the Web.

The Kyte Premium Facebook application is more than a simple widget – it’s a branded social communications platform, featuring live video streaming, multimedia chat, viral distribution capabilities and monetization opportunities.

Despite it’s sophisticated feature set and broad customization options, a custom branded Kyte Premium Facebook Application can be deployed in two minutes using a simple web-based tool. Watch this screencast to see for yourself!

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Designed to meet the needs of our media and entertainment partners, the Kyte Premium Player sets a new standard in digital artist promotion and online brand building.

Much more than a simple widget.

The Kyte Player is an easy to use yet powerful super-widget that delivers the core functionality of the Kyte experience to both the producers who create the content, and the consumers who view and interact with it. Users browse and watch shows, communicate through text, audio and video chat, subscribe to channels - even produce live and recorded shows – all from the embedded Kyte Player.

Unlike traditional broadcasting, the Kyte Player blurs the line between producer and audience, converting passive viewers to active participants and engaging the audience through real-time, two-way communication.

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We’re a small startup company near Union Square in downtown San Francisco. We started Kyte to enable anyone to create their own social communications channel – no matter when or where.

How about you? Are you a passionate and smart professional seeking a new challenge? Are you ready to help define the future of new media and social communications? If yes, please keep reading and email us at :

San Francisco, California

• Marketing Director
• Product Management Director
• Director of User Experience and Design
• Integration Engineer
• Senior Backend Software Engineer
• Designer
• Senior Mobile Software Engineer

Zurich, Switzerland

• International Project Engineer
• Team & Project Assistant
• Part-time Opportunities for Students

Kyte is pleased to announce that we’ll be at the South by Southwest festival in full force this year in Austin, March 7-16, with some exciting announcements! Join us as we capture the spirit of SXSW directly through the eyes and mobile devices of musicians, artists and filmmakers.

Global & Strategic Investors

Atomico Investments
Co-founded by Niklas Zennström

Draper Fisher Jurveston
Investors in Hotmail, Overture, and Skype

Draper Richards
Founding investors in Skype

DoCoMo Capital, Inc.
VC arm of Japan’s leading mobile communications company

Holtzbrinck Ventures
VC arm of Germany’s leading media company Holtzbrinck

Nokia Growth Partners
Global private equity and VC management arm of Nokia

Steamboat Ventures
Global venture capital fund affiliated with The Walt Disney Company

Swisscom
Switzerland’s leading telecommunications provider

Telefónica
The world’s fourth largest global telecommunications firm

TeliaSonera
Leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic region, as well as Eurasia

Ron Conway (one of the early investors in Google), and leading European private investors including Klaus Hommels, Oliver Jung and Peter Schuepbach

Daniel Graf - Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and Internet services.

Prior to Kyte, founded in 2006, Daniel worked in the world of converging media consumer products. In 1999 and 2000 he was instrumental in the build-up of ReQuest Multimedia, an award-winning Consumer Electronics Startup Company, based in New York. There he created the world’s first MP3 Hard Disk Jukebox, the predecessor to Apple’s “iPod”. It took the team 11 months from product idea to market. ReQuest Multimedia is running a successful business up to this day.

In 2001, Daniel joined Philips Consumer Electronics where he developed several world premieres in the field of consumer electronics converging with Internet services, such as the world’s first Internet Audio stereo system and the first wireless Home Entertainment System with Internet video services. In addition to creating these awards winning new media products and bringing them to market, Daniel, together with his team, explored new businesses in the Connected Planet domain which included the development of new value propositions for TV. These propositions included domains such as IPTV, peer to peer community TV, Internet content service overlays (e.g. RSS and weather information “on top” of a TV signal), mobile TV and others.

Before ReQuest Multimedia, Daniel worked at several other companies in the field of software and electronics. Daniel has earned several awards, including the “Top 100 Swiss People of the Year 2000” award, a list of Switzerland’s most outstanding achievers, awarded by Sonntagszeitung. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Interstate College of Engineering (NTB), Switzerland, and an MS in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, Troy NY.

Erik Abair - SVP Engineering & Co-Founder

Erik is in charge of the top level software architecture and leads the Kyte engineering team. He has spent more than a decade in the field of software development and has been managing engineering teams (both in-house and distributed) for over six years.

Prior to co-founding Kyte, Erik served as Software Architect and engineering team lead for several Royal Philips Electronics projects from 2001 to 2005.

In addition to his professional work at Philips, Erik founded and managed a distributed team of designers and engineers as part of the open source MAMEoX project.

Erik began his professional career as a software developer for ReQuest Multimedia in 1999 where he met Kyte co-founder Daniel Graf.

Joe Elliott, Chief Technology Officer

An experienced technologist with rich experience in the wireless and Internet application markets. Prior to joining Kyte, Joe was the co-founder and software architect for ThumbJive, Inc., a leading San Francisco-based company that managed and initiated projects for clients including: Amp’d Mobile, Digital Chocolate, Airplay, Hands-On Mobile, In-Fusio, Moderati and FunMail.

Joe led the technology team that created: a mobile platform for advertisement content management, user management, high score tracking, viral distribution, and media, together with the client layer for advertisement delivery and response capture; a cross platform for live photo sharing (J2ME, WAP, Web); a social network WAP service and content distribution; a general purpose platform supporting viral distribution through SMS invites, friends lists, messaging, polls, news, trivia quizzes, photo sharing and WAP games; a real-time multi-player poker puzzle challenge; and a tool for creating mock wireless applications.

Gannon Hall - Chief Marketing Officer

Gannon leads global marketing and product strategy efforts for Kyte, including overall market strategy and business models, corporate communications, product roadmap, messaging and branding.

Gannon is an award winning marketing professional, bringing to the company 15 years experience in both emerging and established consumer internet and enterprise technology. Prior to joining Kyte, Gannon was Principal at Horn Group, Inc., a premier digital marketing and public relations agency with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Washington DC. As head of the agency’s New York office, Gannon was responsible for client strategy, business development and operations. Under Gannon’s leadership the New York office won several prestigious branding, digital marketing and public relations awards.

Prior to Horn Group, Gannon led Hall Consulting, an award winning San Francisco interactive design, development and marketing consultancy that he founded in 1994. Clients included a diverse set of emerging and established enterprise software companies including Vitria, AvantGo (Sybase), Commerce One, and PlaceWare (Microsoft).

Gannon began his career as a web consultant for companies including Pacific Telesis Group and US Web San Francisco, where he helped architect first generation websites for clients including Rolling Stone Magazine, Proxim and Flextronics.

Anne Dorman - Chief Financial Officer

Anne is in charge of finances, legal, and administrative affairs and brings over 30 years of Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurship experience to Kyte.

Anne has served as CFO of Advent Software, Ascend Communications (merged with Lucent, 1999), Atomic Vision (pre-IPO merger with Red Hat, 1999), Automattic, Cholestech, HealthCentral, Industrial Origami, Devicescape, Silicon Spice (merged with Broadcom, 2000), SKOLAR (merged with Wolters Kluwer), Sphere, Synaptics, Treasury Services Corporation (merged with Oracle, 1997), among many others.

Prior to that, she was employed by Arthur Young & Company (predecessor to Ernst & Young) from 1976 to 1985, where she was a founding member of the firm’s Entrepreneurial Services Group.

Anne is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), holds an MBA, and is member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Peter Schuepbach - Managing Director Europe

Peter Schuepbach began his entrepreneurial career as co-founder of Miracle Software AG in 1986, serving as Chief Executive Officer for more than 10 years. He grew the organization in 14 years to a $30M/350 employee software company in more than 5 countries. In 1999 the company went public as one of the most successful IPOs in the Swiss New Market.

In 1998 Peter was appointed to the advisory committee of softNet, an initiative of the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Technology. Peter was a co-initiator of the Swiss Software Association swissSOFT merged later to simsa.

After a serious accident of his brother in 2001, Peter took over the software company GenevaLogic. He restructured the organization and refocused on classroom management software, growing the company within 4 years to a highly profitable market leader in the niche market of educational software for schools. He handed over the CEO position of GenevaLogic in fall 2006 to Kirk Greiner, President of the US subsidiary, and serves since as Chairman.

For several years Peter has been active as an angel investor in internet and software start-up companies. Among those investments, he was lead investor in very successful internet companies in Europe such as xing.com, plazes.com and studiVZ.net. As reward for his outstanding engagement in new start-up companies he received the award “Business Angel of the Year 2005” from the Swiss Association of Business Angels. 

Kyte provides a complete mobile and online platform that enables anyone—from consumers to major media and entertainment brands—to produce and distribute live and on-demand digital content simultaneously across the Web, social networks and mobile phones, and engage with an audience through real-time multimedia communications.  Through strategic partnerships with the world’s leading media companies, mobile carriers, and mobile device manufacturers, Kyte is building a global digital content distribution platform with massive user adoption and monetization potential.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a European office in Zurich, Switzerland. Investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Telefónica, Nokia Growth Partners, Steamboat Ventures, TeliaSonera, DoCoMo Capital, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Swisscom and others.