The ForSaleByLocals Multimedia And Marketing Platform

The ForSaleByLocals (FSBL) multimedia platform is a powerful online engine designed to help small and medium sized enterprises manage and distribute their multimedia content in a cost effective manner. You can use the FSBL platform to provide advanced functionality across any number of different customer facing or internal websites.

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Advantages

The advantages of the platform are as follows:

  • Fast implementation: We have options that will upload, manage, display, and/or distribute your own branded media within your domain in less than 15 minutes.
  • Choices for Hosting:
    • Value Added Self Hosting Options: The platform provides a set of value added services to those customers that want to host videos and other multimedia content on their own servers. These options can also include completely configurable distribution of your video content to partner portals and sites.
    • Virtual Hosting: Your customers will think that you are hosting videos on your own server but actually our servers are doing all of the work. The normal headaches that can occur with self hosting such as bandwidth, connectivity, and storage are ours, not yours.
    • Economy Plan:
  • Designed For Organizations: Most video hosting companies only provide a simple channel for uploaded media – the channel has little if any organizational capability, content is normally branded for and content uploaded there is normally public to everyone. The FSBL platform allows you to identify public content and even provide access controls on a individual level or groups. You can also organize all of your organizations into completely custom folders that each have different access rules.

Overview of the Platform

The FSBL platform has a number of a subsections that we internally refer to as "engines".The engines work together to provide a solid online marketing platform to serve both the needs of buyer and seller. These include:

  • Content Management Engine: This engine provides content based on the contextual requirements of the information request. It also generates and controls output permissions on all externally facing feeds. The last five videos delivered by the platform in any language as as follows:
  • Geolocation Engine: This engine is focused on determining and adding latitude and longitude data to information contained within the database as well as wrapping geolocation information around external information. The engine also determines spatial relationship among items of interest without the need for a 3rd party mapping application such as Google Maps. Several examples of dynamic pages built on the last five geolocation requests to the FSBL platform are as follows:
  • Configuration and Presentation Engine: This engine is built on top the Content Management Engine and determines the correct presentation of the output from the Content Management engine where required based on ownership of the content or location to be distributed. This engine is most often used in conjunction with widgets and to maintain branding of customer content.
  • Distribution and Advertising Engine: This engine is built on top of all of the above engines and matches distant site requests for content with a selected subset of content or advertising. This engine also adds powerful statistical reporting and billing capability.
  • Conversion Engine: The conversion engine manages all of the requirements and reporting for any video, image or document conversion within the conversion cluster of servers. It not only provides specific conversion instructions to each conversion transaction but also manages and prioritizes multimedia conversions distributed across different conversion servers and/or in the queue for processing.

How To Use The Platform

The platform can be accessed using two methods.

  1. Widgets: The first is with a series of widgets that provide a quick and seamless way for your organization to manage and distribute content. The widget interfaces can be built to your custom specifications or you can use a ready made set of standard interfaces.
  2. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs): You or your organization’s web developer can integrate the FSBL platform’s powerful capability into your own website, web application, or internet aware software application by using a simple set of application programming interfaces or APIs. You can learn about the FSBL API and keep up-to-date by visiting the FSBL Multimedia API Overview page.