Israeli company BubblePly has significantly upgraded its service for overlaying images and text on video. Launched in December, the service now allows live links, full control over fonts and extensive use of images. It’s a much more useful service now than it was before.
Users can work with videos added by URL from almost any video site on the web. Copyright concerns are believed to be moot because the service doesn’t change the video itself, it just places a layer of data on top of it.
The company highlights favorite videos from popular viral video sites for users to annotate - though annotation may be too serious a word. There’s presumably no shortage of young people who would enjoy marking up the recent hit video “Spiders on Drugs,” though BubblePly points to a copy of the video allegedly sold to ebaumsworld by someone other than the creator.
The company has made a number of special Valentine’s Day videos that users might enjoy marking up, as you can see below in the second of two examples. I would get in big trouble if I sent one of these videos to my girlfriend today, but I suppose if I had BubblePlied the video invite to tonight’s screenings of FourEyedMonsters in 30 cities that might have been appreciated.
BubblePly seems to be targeting youth social networks, though a Google search for their name on the site brings back almost no results - compared to almost 100k for slide.com. Perhaps this new upgrade will make Bubbleply more useful for different potential users.
See also Mojiti for an arguably stuffier implementation of similar functionality.
Check out these two examples of videos that have been worked over by BubblePly - TechCrunch Web 2.0 Interviews and Valentine Video Greating. You can add your own annotation as well, including notes on any Web 2.0 companies in the first video that have tanked since it was posted last August.
The embedded players are shrinked
How strange, they look fine in Safari but now that I look at the post in Firefox I see that you’re right. Thanks.
The link to the site is wrong its pointing to buble instead of bubble.
the only useful use of this program is for translation purposes; text posted on the bottom portion of the screen
the lion’s share of this program, as i see it, will be used by youngsters to post immature/comical comments on video clips
This is interesting stuff simply because it will allow non-Video types to go on and contribute to the social video medium.
Quick question for Marshall: Forgive me if I’ve missed some important info regarding Bubbleply and Splashcast, but do either of those two sites have the ability to string together multiple videos/photos AND integrate text/images? I could see a real benefit in that type of solution for everything from school book reports to corporate training presentations.
Colin, if I’m understanding your question correctly, neither service can do what the other can. SplashCast allows integration of text and images but not as overlays like this.
Thanks for the answer.
I think being able to combine (i.e. string together one after another) multiple videos, images, and file-types (such as a flash demo of a how to use something) along with overlaid text, links, and images would be extremely useful.
Its the Piczo guy!!!! WOOT
http://digg.com/design/550_HQ_Nature_Wallpapers
that’s a cool thing, but still , can somebody help me to understand their business model ?
Hey Colin,
I would think since you can add links on Bubbleply, you could simply add a link from one video to another so you could string videos together.
I did notice that you can add images to the video that are also linkable.
The question would be if Bubbleply worked for non-flash video.
But otherwise a very cool tool.
Tons of these flash toys, must be easy to do. saw something called Graffiti.
It seems that the CEO of technorati, in the video of Web 2.0 CEOS, clearly says “yeah, it’s soylent green” not “yeah, it’s solely agreeing”. It is so obvious by the way he next says “web 2.0 is people”, as is the famous line ’soylent green is people’. Who annotated this? Oh Brother..
You forgot to mention that you can add Affiliate Links to the video. That’s going to be a major use of this in the very near future.
Apart from the fact that this is cool, it doesn’t seem to be solving a problem that users have.
I’ve tried both video annotation tools, and Mojiti is much easier to use and has way more features (like support for other video types than Flash, Windows Media-Center, plug-in, etc.)
I think that this tool can be especially useful for subtitling into other languages or for education purposes.
Did anyone see how Michael Wesch posted his Web 2.0 video onto Mojiti for his “Video 2.0″ experiment? Very cool use of this technology:
http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313
mojiti is way better.
I find BubblePLY very easy to use, intuitive and the most important advantage is no registration needed. I also notice the when I did registered I got great click report for the links I included inside my Bubbles. I think that they approach for affiliates is far better.
Mojiti’s registration takes like 5 secs and it’s worth it to get the added features. Plus, they also have a Chinese site which means they support all the top video sharing sites in China too.
i like graffiti.vidavee.com and it takes no registration time at all
Mike:
Next time around, if at all possible, PLEASE try and find some female CEO’s
to include in a clip like this. Diversity is a value.
Digital Doctor
Mike,
Do you have any female candidates for the Job? We would love to have a female as our leader and we are looking for a CEO. Please don’t hesitate to send me referrals.
ben
Chairman of Plymedia
ben@plymedia.com
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