Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches

We are considering several ideas, but think about this: with all the additional data we have about videos (comments, tagged people/highlights, synchronized slides, and metadata about individual clips in a compilation) we can better place mid-roll video ads.

The ability to sync video + PPT is also useful for corporate training and online university courses etc.

In the end we are only 5 months old and still figuring stuff out :)

Ryan

Re: Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches

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Post by greendestiny » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 8:56 AM UTC

ryan wrote: post #4

Tichy wrote: post #3

Just curious, how do they plan to make money?

We are considering several ideas, but think about this: with all the additional data we have about videos (comments, tagged people/highlights, synchronized slides, and metadata about individual clips in a compilation) we can better place mid-roll video ads. The ability to sync video + PPT is also useful for corporate training and online university courses etc. In the end we are only 5 months old and still figuring st…

They all sound like good things to me. I guess that makes syncing things with video your key weapon. Just a suggestion, why not just have comments under the video, scrolling up in sync, because most of the comments don't need to be on the video itself.

Re: Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches

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Post by axod » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 9:20 AM UTC

(Slightly off topic)

Any heavy flash video just crashes my browser (This app did). Really irritating :/ (MacBook, firefox 2.0.0.12 defaults) Is this just me, or a known issue with flash right now?

Re: Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches

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Post by bluelu » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 10:18 AM UTC

What about foreign users? When I add a comment, the US keyboard map is used!

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Post by sratner » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 10:23 AM UTC

bluelu wrote: post #7

What about foreign users? When I add a comment, the US keyboard map is used!

We are working to fix that soon. Thanks for the report. -Simon

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Post by anupamkapoor » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 10:36 AM UTC

i think placing comments on the video's itself is pretty annoying. perhaps you can do it on a scrolling sidebar or something ?

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Post by pmjordan » Thu, Mar 27, 2008, 12:08 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #6

(Slightly off topic) Any heavy flash video just crashes my browser (This app did). Really irritating :/ (MacBook, firefox 2.0.0.12 defaults) Is this just me, or a known issue with flash right now?

I've had plenty of issues with Flash on Linux. It doesn't typically take down the browser as it used to as plugins are (I think) now run in a separate process on Opera and Firefox. Konqueror can still crash because of Flash. That said, I'm not running the latest version of Flash on Linux because it doesn't even work in anything but Firefox (or presumably anything not Gecko-based).

As far as I can tell, Flash is very stable on Safari on the Mac, there are probably subtleties in the Flash code that cause occasional breakage on non-Webkit browsers.

The whole plugin situation is a travesty anyway. Adobe don't care about anything but IE and Firefox on Windows, so Flash runs like crap on everything else. I suspect Apple paid Adobe to get Flash working properly on Mac OS X + Safari.