Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/13/omnisio-syncs-slides-with-video-presentations/

by hwork • 18 years ago

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kyro• 18 years ago

You guys should think about gearing alternate versions of your services towards education. I really wish there existed hubs where universities could upload their lecture videos/slides. It'd be a great service to the students, and to people who are interested in learning various subjects and want a classroom environment where professors can chime in with their advice.

ryan2• 18 years ago

I agree - that's actually what our original plan was, although we decided to target the general case first.

dmix2• 18 years ago

cough standford edcorner interviews

PACSPA• 18 years ago

congrats. I wish it didn't lag my laptop as much though. Regardless, cool piece of tech. Exactly what I was looking for (plus some) and I'm sure it will improve in upcoming iterations.

Any advice: which is better quality video Blip, Google Video or YouTube? In my mind YouTube is out of the question b/c of the limited upload size. Not good for hour long+ lectures.

kgen• 18 years ago

I'm surprised that nobody's ever mentioned http://epresence.tv/! It's actually fully open source (we use it for archiving our own videos) and it already has powerpoint integration and a slick website. My friend at the UofT was taking a course there with Prof. Baecker and says it's pretty awesome to have video archives with slides to review notes and what not.

melvinram• 18 years ago

I love the way Omnisio works. I have lots of seminars I give so I'll be using this a lot in the near future.

dmix2• 18 years ago

I love this software, it's syncing with the start-up school was perfect timing.

They should be working on some deals with seminars and other conventions to get their videos online.

This is a good step forward towards open information.

ig1• 18 years ago

Doesn't work on the Wii though (youtube/google video/iplayer all do).

saket• 18 years ago

this is pretty sweet. i really wanted this when I tried watching the presentations from the Startup School. i could see this being used in higher ed for distance learning or for recording lectures. more and more schools are focusing on distance learning in the last few years because the technology is finally getting viable.

hwork• 18 years ago

What I like most about Omnisio (besides the Ozzie accents) is that they are tackling structured video. It's a hard problem, but creating a system that turns days worth of static conference footage into a highly navigatible (not a word) site is pretty awesome.

I wanted to mention a similar open-source project whose creator I met at SDSH 24: MetaVid.com. It's built on a semantic version of MediaWiki and structures the hell out of the Congressional video record. It's a pretty cool project.

Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations

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