Comments on: TC40 Startup BeFunky Gets a Seed Round

By: It’s time for a Luxury Web that Sells Aspiration at $$$ « INMA MARTINEZ

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:51:08 +0000

[...] Organised by Golden Horn Ventures, I come across one of their portfolio companies, BeFunky, which TechCrunch already covered this past June 2008 and which got awarded a TechCrunch40 as [...]

By: Frederick Twain

Frederick Twain — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:04:59 +0000

oops sorry

By: Frederick Twain

Frederick Twain — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:04:34 +0000

BeFunky has since innovated this technology. See this article:

http://www.atel...business-models

By: Frederick Twain

Frederick Twain — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:02:34 +0000

BeFunky has sinced innovated this technology even further. See this article:

http://www.atel...business-models

By: Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches : New Web 2.0 Magazine

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:37:06 +0000

[...] hinted at this project before, but earlier today I spilled the beans at a panel I was on at NYU for [...]

By: Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches

Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:07:39 +0000

[...] hinted at this project before, but earlier today I spilled the beans at a panel I was on at NYU for [...]

By: Anthony Kuhn

Anthony Kuhn — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:02:38 +0000

Wow, this post generated lots and lots of comments, both good and bad. I checked out the service for myself, and for the life of me, I can’t see what’s unique or different about befunky. I mean, there are oodles of other sites doing similar things so this must just be a Web 2.0 junk funding round. I wish them all the luck in the world, but yeah how do you make money off something like this?

By: mojaam

mojaam — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:48:20 +0000

Like the idea, but as a vector art enthusiast, I can’t appreciate the quality of the result from filters and this. Still kind of cool.

By: Vijay Chakravarthy

Vijay Chakravarthy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:49:05 +0000

http://videoabstraction.net/

The more interesting uses are bandwidth savings for videos (since the cartoonized version can use a simpler color palette and better compression).

By: Laurent

Laurent — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:20:14 +0000

Though I see several comments, I see this as heading the right direction in providing easy online video editing/enhancing solutions. Sure photoshop has great effects and is a powerful tool. Befunky allows people to manipulate photo or video on the fly and online. It also has an entire ecosystem of consumers using social networking sites and posting photos and videos of themselves. I see it in the same category with Slide and Japanese schoolgirl photo booths.

By: KillerStartups.com - BeFunky.com - Make Your Photos and Videos Into Cartoons

KillerStartups.com - BeFunky.com - Make Your Photos and Videos Into Cartoons — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:06:48 +0000

BeFunky.com – Make Your Photos and Videos Into Cartoons…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

By: Ekim Nazım Kaya

Ekim Nazım Kaya — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:28:25 +0000

Too bad they didn’t get the domain bfunky.com and lost it to a domain trader.

By: K.Kaviraj

K.Kaviraj — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:13:42 +0000

Really splendid work / site – too good

By: Mehmet Subasi

Mehmet Subasi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:10:13 +0000

Also keep a good eye on Golden Horn Ventures. I would bet on their bets.

By: altek

altek — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:02:34 +0000

what is the point of this site :/

By: Photoshopizer

Photoshopizer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:24:11 +0000

Looks like they need to do a lot of work on their rotoscoping technology. That sample video is quite sub-standard to anything you can do in photoshop.. At least not something I would want to pay for if that is their revenue model. What is their revenue model??

By: Michael B

Michael B — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:23:10 +0000

Cool.. but do they need a whole company just for creating cartoon effect images.

Cough *photoshop*

http://mikesmon...b.blogspot.com/

By: Louis-Eric

Louis-Eric — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:40:52 +0000

Cute, but the Uvatar trademark is ours.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:12:37 +0000

Why all the haters?

Cool video tools….I thought video is a huge growth area.

Don’t hate the playa hate the game

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:10:07 +0000

It looks to me that they're using a variety of commonly used digital image processing algorithms & techniques such as image diffusion , image edge-detection/filtering, Canny/Hysterisis Thresholding filtering and perhaps more. Jon said... Other then the effects, what else do they have to offer once the novelty wears-out? I completely agree here. It seems that these days, everyone is inventing useless web application just for the sake of having something on the web.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:04:52 +0000

Yeah, I know BeFunky from way back. When they were called Photoshop Filters!! Jeez!

By: Trademanufacturer

Trademanufacturer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:49:50 +0000

cooool……ah….

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:46:03 +0000

I bet those googly eyes in their logo is what got them funded.

By: Crazyglues

Crazyglues — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:36:34 +0000

uh.. dam that first line should be “people will like” not “people with like”, it’s 8:36pm and I just drank a malt so I got brain freeze right now… My bad.

By: Crazyglues

Crazyglues — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:32:56 +0000

Actually it seems really cool, I think a lot of people with like using this feature of making yourself look more cartoon drawn…. could be pretty cool.

I can already think of about a few youtube videos that would look cool done like the video in the story…

Good Luck to Befunky, like the name too, pretty cool.