What’s that Ooyala about?

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 6:29 AM PT Comments (7)

newteevee iconA couple of ex-Googlers, Bismarck Lepe and Sean Knapp, have teamed up to start Mountain View-based stealth-mode startup ooyala which is “focused on delivering a high-quality, interactive, video-viewing experience.” The alarm:clock sums it nicely, when it writes, “ooyala is not saying who or how much nor what the hell they are doing other than video.” NewTeeVee got in touch with one of the founders who says that ooyala has raised “a large round of funding” and it plans to release a beta version of its online/offline video application in early July. Is this the start of the former-Googlers competing with Google trend, that Cringley was talking about?

Full story at NewTeeVee.

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May 29th, 2007
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4 comments so far

May 29th, 2007
7:07 AM PT
DinoHorse said:

It smells like a Joost-like service to me.

May 29th, 2007
3:01 PM PT
Ty Graham said:

The name sounds a little funny. I like Blip’d better.

May 29th, 2007
8:51 PM PT
Ethan Stock said:

Backwards it’s alayoo, i.e. “all of you”. User created and/or social video?

May 30th, 2007
7:54 AM PT
Smith said:

Hey!
Did they not sign a non-compete when working at Google? Can they make a website that competes with Google?

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