Google creates a mashup of Omnisio and YouTube
We thought pretty highly of the online video mashup site Omnisio at this year’s Y Combinator Demo Day, and liked it even more after it launched back in March. Apparently, so did Google. Its YouTube property purchased Ominisio today as a way to expand how users interact with the videos they create online, according to the YouTube Blog.
Terms of the deal were not announced, though TechCrunch is hearing it was an all cash deal in… Continue Reading
Veeple uses Flash to make videos come alive with ad links
If YouTube figured out how to get web video viewers to watch ads, it could enjoy a huge revenue stream from its tens of millions of users. Veeple is one of the companies that hopes it has figured this out. It’s not alone in this respect. But its technology is worth checking out.
The Los Gatos, Calif. company can embed anything — including advertising web page links — into videos. It does so by putting an interactive… Continue Reading
Create your own web video mashups with Omnisio
Often I find myself watching videos on the web that contain parts which are extremely funny, but the rest is painful to sit through. A new online video mashup service, Omnisio, which launched today, hopes to change that by making it super easy to re-edit videos on the web.
The company was one of the ten we profiled in our post on the Y Combinator demo day. As we said then, the slick, easy-to-use interface is… Continue Reading
Ten Y Combinator companies that want to revolutionize social networking, search, databases and anything else you can think of
VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall and I attended the Spring 2008 Y Combinator Demo Day yesterday, where we were both pretty blown away.
Okay, so I’m easy to impress, but Matt’s a tougher nut to crack — just ask some of the start-ups who’ve been on the receiving end of his criticism. Yesterday, however, both of us found ourselves constantly saying, “Wow, that looks cool.”
Y Combinator is a Mountain View-based incubator company that funds and nurtures early-stage… Continue Reading