I just read that Google is buying Omnisio. Omnisio has a really cool online player (I mentioned it in my blog post on video technology here - a video on Omnisio also spawned this post on how to summarize & communicate better).
Head on over to Omnisio (note: mostly technical videos at this time) for the preview of technology that's probably headed to YouTube in the near future. Cool Omnisio features:
- Ability to view slides in-line with video
The slides sync and it's the closest thing online to being at a presentation - You can comment directly on a moment in a video - inside the video itself (instead of a rolling list of comments below the video)
- More meaningful links to parts in videos - instead of jumping forward "4:00 minutes" you can identify different segments (e.g. "the part where the cat jumps on the guy's head")
This also caught my eye because Omnisio was funded by YCombinator - an interesting seed venture capital firm that I've been watching (also read the book: Founders At Work - ok, it's not on YC or about YC, but it's about startups by one of the YC partners).
