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by adamzerner • 12 years ago

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ianremsen• 12 years ago

One thing this could be really good for is organizing concert videos. https://skimmablevideos.herokuapp.com/skims/show/549daa1c66f...

tmchow• 12 years ago

This is fantastic, can't wait to play with this.

One piece of feedback: on mobile view of your homepage, you should do a better job exposing more of your content instead of relying on the hamburger for navigation. Just adding links after the Victor quote would be a step up.

pgbovine• 12 years ago

adamzerner• 12 years ago

I think the advantage to my version is that there's much less of a barrier to making a skim.

1) You don't have to email anyone for an access code and subsequently create an account.

2) You don't have to wait to be emailed for link to your videos "digest creator".

I suspect that these barriers are enough to prevent most people from creating skims. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/ for the power of trivial inconveniences.

neoteo• 12 years ago

Ok, so who's going to start doing the WWDC's ?

unholiness• 12 years ago

Love it. Something like this catching on would really address the bulk of my hatred of video tutorials.

A few minor tweaks:

1. Your home page is missing a concise description of what this actually is: videos with links to their subsections.

2. It takes a few clicks to see an example, and when I get there, the interaction isn't transparent: why would I click on what just looks like paragraph text?

3. In multivideo skims, starting a subsection of a new video should pause the previously playing video -- when I flip to a new page in a book, I don't want the old page still yelling at me.

Overall, great stuff, and I hope to see it expanded further!

milkmiruku• 12 years ago

thank you, very nice! i had to double take to click on 'All' to find the demos. an automatic next play / playlist would be useful. how about a feature that allows one to jump between videos, to refer to sections and insert video, comments, etc.? VJing with pattern presets..

Glench• 12 years ago

A couple other references. My own work in this area: http://glench.com/EyesOnThePrize/

My friend RMO has been working on alternate representations of video for years. One of his many experiments: http://teleputer.org/#/montage-interdit

sitkack2• 12 years ago

This reminds me of some of the research by Maribeth Black [0] on the Future of Reading.

Eyes on the Prize is amazing in its density and approachability. What are your thoughts on debate platforms like the one at the Economist [1] ?

[0] http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~mbb/newcv.html#projects

[1] http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/263

sitkack2• 12 years ago

A static version of a similar idea is the documentation system used @ ifixit, https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Canon+PowerShot+A75+Motherboard... which they spun off into a standalone product, http://www.dozuki.com/

frading• 12 years ago

Very interesting. My own startup with similar possibilities: https://www.everytimehq.com

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