Movie Masher launches — but with “for sale” sign
Doug Anarino, a New York Web developer, has just put his video site, Movie Masher, up for sale at VentureBoard.
It is notable because it is the latest example of the explosion of creativity going on in the Web 2.0 area, but where innovation is so incremental that new companies or their products no longer can afford to wait around for user adoption.
We’re pointing to Movie Masher because it does offer users some new video features…. Continue Reading
VideoEgg raises $12 million, going for bigtime
San Francisco photo editing start-up VideoEgg has raised $12 million from a team of investors led by Maveron, the venture capital firm of Starbucks Chairman Howard Schulz.
The funding, reported in BusinessWeek (worth reading, for the background) comes hours after news emerged that Yahoo had acquired Jumpcut, another San Francisco video editing company.
VideoEgg and Jumpcut are part of a crop of sites that have emerged lately — including Eyespot and Motionbox — that offer a… Continue Reading
Yahoo acquires video editing co., Jumpcut
Yahoo has acquired San Francisco start-up Jumpcut, the online video editing company, for an undisclosed amount, we’ve just been told. (See here for more).
It could herald the beginning of consolidation in the video area, which has become filled with similar companies. Jumpcut’s video editing tools are based on Adobe’s “flash” technology. Jumpcut is different because it is a fully-featured video editor, which sits in the browser, and there’s nothing to download. With built-in flash technology,… Continue Reading