Congrats to everyone at Yahoo! for the successful acquisition of Jumpcut. Jumpcut is a a social media service.. in a sense. It is similar to Motionbox which I briefly looked at, but allows users to upload not only videos but music and pictures as well. After you’ve uploaded some media you can “remix” and mash it up as you please, or leave that up to the viewers.
I think Jumpcut is the perfect addition to the Yahoo! lineup. Yahoo! Video is still maturing, so hopefully the Jumpcut guys can give them a few pointers and perhaps integrate features amongst various Yahoo! properties. Jumpcut’s interface reminds me of Flickr’s – with tags, video details, forward/backward navigation and similarly styled comments. Flickr aficionados shouldn’t have a problem adapting to Jumpcut.
Now that Jumpcut is part of the Yahoo! family, Yahoo! is really the one destination for all your social media needs – Flickr has over 2.5 million users and del.icio.us recently announced their millionth user. But then again, I am biased.. I did work for them.
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“Flickr aficionado’s”
- no apostrophe needed here
- am I an aficianado? That would be pretty sweet
Thanks for the catch, I got caught up in the moment. Acquisitions make me giddy. =)
Would this be a similar business strategy for Yahoo that is trying to acquire FaceBook as well?
See this round-up
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I heard on a podcast the other day, mabe Cranky Geeks. They were discussing the rumors about Yahoo! buying facebook, which has just opened up completely I see.
Some Lady “Yahoo! often just tries to buy it’s way into cool… Google is always the cool company”
Dvorak “Are you implying that Yahoo! is not intrinsically cool ?”
Some Lady “I don’t think it’s an impllication, I’m pretty much just saying it.”
Even more relevent is that later on they same group were discussing how youTube has given everyone this amazingly easy way to get media out there. That apparently no one else has done media online dleivery that well ? Discuss ?
M: “Some Lady” is a Google whore who knows nothing about Yahoo. I’d say Yahoo has done some great work of late (YUI for example) that people in the know would know about. Google, on the other hand, can’t seem to market any of their products at all; not exactly the business definition of “cool.”
Dvorak: “Are you implying that Some Lady is not intrinsically cool?”
Me: “I don’t think it’s an implication, I’m pretty much just saying it.”
Paul: The day a video service (any video service) allows you to rotate video clips, let me know. I’m still waiting.