Comments on: NewTeeVee Startup Watch: Trendessence, LiveRail, imcandy, Animasher, Heekya

By: andy warhol

andy warhol — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:13:01 +0000

excuse me from all the wag but hasnt heekya.com or their half baked heekya.net going downhill ever since they launched? seems that nobody can even access heekya.net anymore i give it 1 more month before its deadpool... primarily because i havent seen anything new or heard anything about what the hell it is that theyre actually planning.

news and stuff is great but where's the beef???? is it just one person developing this thing or several? in my view.. YC's 21 startups are way more interesting with genuine ideas than launchbox'

my 2 cents

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:20:30 +0000

Good discussion, and great points Brother Howie.

Stephan

By: Brother Howie

Brother Howie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:04:58 +0000

I agree with most of the sentiments above -- UGC should get better with motivation for payoff, as well as a chance to really highlight your creative talent.

But I think we're all looking at this only from the advertising side of things. What about how e-commerce is integrating with video? Look at Amazon's Video Widget, Overlay.tv and Pure Verticals' Mugzy. These folks are all trying to figure out how word-of-mouth feeds the ecommerce equation, and how video and social nets can spread that message.

It's all still evolving...should be an interesting next 12-18 months in the space...

Cheers!

By: Tal Schmid

Tal Schmid — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:25:34 +0000

Hi,

In a world where you can share ANY video file, no concern about its content, end users face a major challenge in finding high quality videos within a mess.

imcandy video platform guarantees an organized, logic and clear content as well as compensates creators for their contribution. Video creators get 40% of video-ads revenues plus bonuses for each upload($5-30) during beta.

We believe that clear video structures together with a high profit potential are a source of motivation for creating high quality productions, much like TV.

Goodluck to all,

By: Foo

Foo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:27:19 +0000

I think innovation is slightly overrated, the problem with the web-video space is business oriented … not technology oriented. There are certain types of content that is worthy monetization and most video sites aren’t targeting properly. I’m excited to see how these sites do.

By: Dax Brady Sheehan

Dax Brady Sheehan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:32:33 +0000

trendessence, liverail, imcandy non too innovative(sorry guys). Animasher actually not that bad on the other hand. UI is ok, could be better more gui imho. Nevertheless going in the right direction.

heekya. nope. It's so close but really very far away. It seems cluttered and to much social interaction which really doesn't seem necessary. Had a great idea with design your story and let others look, watch and read... not edit. That part for me is the sticking part. I don't want people to edit my wedding story... do you?

Thanks for the round up Liz.

By: David Adewumi

David Adewumi — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:20:31 +0000

Liz,

Thanks for the mention.

Will be exciting to see how we show you guys the big vision in the next few months.

David from Heekya

By: Kristofer Mencák

Kristofer Mencák — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:24:43 +0000

Hi,

thanks for mentioning us!

We hope over time, quality of the animations will rise. There are definitely some nuggets of gold there already, and of course also lots of animations which are basically "test runs" of the tool.

We think the slightly rough feel of the creations is something that often increases the humor in them.

All the best,

Kristofer - Animasher.com