I just read that Google is buying
Omnisio. Omnisio has a really cool online player (
I mentioned it in my blog post on video technology here - a
video on Omnisio also spawned this post on how to summarize
& communicate better).
Head on over to Omnisio (note:
mostly technical videos at this time) for the preview of technology
that's probably headed to YouTube in the near future. Cool Omnisio
features:
- Ability to view slides in-line with video
The slides sync and it's the closest thing online to being at a
presentation
- You can comment directly on a moment in a video - inside the
video itself (instead of a rolling list of comments below the
video)
- More meaningful links to parts in videos - instead of jumping
forward "4:00 minutes" you can identify different segments (e.g.
"the part where the cat jumps on the guy's head")
This also caught my eye because Omnisio was funded by
YCombinator - an interesting seed venture capital firm that I've
been watching (also read the book:
Founders At Work - ok, it's not on YC or about YC, but it's
about startups by one of the YC partners).