Comments on: Asterpix Video Hotspots Now Generated Automatically

By: PL

PL — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:48:36 +0000

http://www.aste...le/?avi=8263321
I had just spent 5 mins creating this Asterpix Interactive video. Extremely easy to use. As a viewer, I think this ad model is much better than other pre/post/interstitial model. I will only see ads for the stuff interesting me. For advertisers, this will be the most targeted ad placement you could get comparing with time based or video metadata based. Great tool!

By: Iz

Iz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:45:27 +0000

Hmm… sounds a lot like Greg Elin’s Open-Source Fotonotes application http://www.fotonotes.net/

By: lesmadras

lesmadras — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:24:15 +0000

@AW I dont see any of the advertisements you mention?

Anyway, Jimmy Kimmel is talking about Ashley Tisdale, so it makes sense to offer more information on what he is talking about. Overall, it looks pretty darn cool.

By: Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:49:49 +0000

This thing keeps crashing my safari, please fix

By: AW

AW — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:46:20 +0000

At 0:13 there’s a clean shot of a popular DVD and Asterpix produces nothing… plus, the first advertisement seen is placed on the head of Jimmy Kimmel, but the contents are for Ashley Tisdale (the cute guest).

Their tech needs a lot of work.

By: Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:10:40 +0000

I don’t like how it pauses the video went you mouse over. How come the box isn’t there all the time? To me it seems a bit cluttering, but it could be useful on very informative/educational videos

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:08:59 +0000

I can’t wait for all these companies that put engagement (for the hopes of monetization) into videos to realize that user’s don’t want to engage with the a video… they want to watch it.