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>> Diamond Road Online has won a Canadian New Media Award for Excellence in News/Information! Thanks and congrats(!) to Rich Lachman and David Oppenheim, Andy Bely and Baun Mah, Mark Kolody and the team at Kolody Inc, and many thanks for the support and collaboration of TVOntario, BellFund, and Taking it Global. Visit the CMNA site to learn more.

>> Diamond Road Online was selected to show at the SIGGRAPH conference in August. Widely considered the most prestigious forum for computer graphics and interactive techniques research, SIGGRAPH is basically the biggest technology, research, and innovation conference around, with both academic and industry professionals in attendance. The event runs from August 11 - 15th at the Los Angeles Convention Centre.

>> Diamond Road Online has already been making the festival and conference rounds. Kensington’s team made a successful appearance on the new media panel at the Realscreen Summit, a non-fiction film & television industry event in Washington, D.C.

Before going to Washington, DRO was a featured case study at DOC IT, a two-day conference on interactive documentary production put on by the Documentary Organization of Canada.

Watch this space for future speaking engagements.

Description

Diamond Road Online is a leading-edge synthesis of documentary, online community, and the Web 2.0 techniques of Collaborative Filtering, and Personal Recommendations – the exciting techniques behind popular sites like Flickr, Amazon.com and Del.icio.us.

Users create online profiles that launch them on a vibrant community exploration of the global diamond trade. Using a custom designed set of client tools, they can move effortlessly through the stories in a guided experience or take a more active path and explore the Diamond Road universe using our Recommendation Engine: intelligent software that analyzes what they have already seen, what other users have seen and rated, and recommends what they should see next.

Users can choose to follow a favourite character, find out more about a particular theme, or sit back and let other users or DRO tell them a tale. At any point, they can become an “editor” of the story landscape by creating, commenting on, and sharing content sequences.

Diamond Road Online harnesses the power of technology and community to build an interactive documentary that learns from each user and is defined by the community.

Diamond Road Online was produced with the participation of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund and TVO.