Brand new Israeli startup BubblePLY has created an easy tool for adding text or link comic-book style bubbles to videos from popular video sharing sites. Tell it the link to a video on YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe and others, and then add your own content. The video is saved and can be shared via a link or embedding on a web page. See the demo here, and an example is here (there seems to be some problem with embedding right now).
This is way too much work for me, but my guess is that some MySpacers will find this compelling.
Seems this would be a natural for a new social networking site going into beta this week called darejunkies.com. Not tht the site isn’t silly enough to begin with. A review here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/9606
Interesting. But they’re sure to run into “copyright” issues from the source sites, no? I say “copyright” in light of the irony in YouTube going after someone else for content that wasn’t YouTube’s to begin with.
-Zaid
Zaid - There is no copyright issues since they are not touching the original movie! they add a transparent layer (ply) on it. the movie stays the same (at its original place) and you have a new movie with the bubbles sync on it.
It’s a winner, no doubt.
What’s the business model of these kinds of “start ups”? Is everything new done by a start up now?
Business model, easy, eyeballs are back in style as google has shown eyeballs have mouses and mouses click on ads (mice I know, but mouses sounds so web 2.1)
I’ve also seen another company from China called Mojiti (mojiti.com) that is similar, but has a more compelling user experience for personalizing video. Along with text annotations, you can point out moving objects in video too. Many users are using it to subtitle their videos into other languages. Plus, their embedding feature actually works.
Cool intro video here:
http://mojiti.com/kan/941/1204
Thought bubbles on videos as featured by BubblePly and annotating photos as featured by PikiPimp…
Both of these features in addition to full featured management are available on Photagious
Frame 1 (Photo), Frame 2 (Video)
re copyright issues - one of the guys in the team, Nimrod Kozlovski, is a known lawyer for digital copyrights and computers law (I think he even has a PhD) - so maybe they have something ready for this.
Although many digital rights issues regarding new usages are still in debate or not even defined.
This is Ilan from BubblePLY.com. I would like to firstly thank you for your post and for all the informative comments that your viewers have posted.
Did you know that besides offering the ability to layer bubbles on top of a video, BubblePLY can also be used to add subtitles, closed captioning and informative notes etc.?
We at BubblePLY would like to invite you and your readers to experiment with us to see how many other interesting ways BubblePLY can be used.
If you’re having trouble embedding our PLYviewer into your site, please check our FAQs (link - http://www.bubbleply.com/help.aspx).
You can see another example of BubblePLY use in the following link: http://www.bubbleply.com/playe.....306df24bbd
Finally, if you have any comments or questions please e-mail us: feedback@bubbleply.com.
This is a amazing idea. You’ll succeed if you can keep it free and can reach MySapce users.. It will be interesting to see what type of revenue model works for this.. ,