I have that habit as well. I'm not sure if this level of control is possible with video.js, but I'll take a look. Disabling click-to-time until the play button has been clicked might also be an option. Thanks for listening/reading
We get a first-draft transcript made through rev.com, then manually editorialize and format to make it easier to follow for folks who prefer to read.
The player itself is built with video.js which, when combined with the ttml format for the final transcript, allows us to provide that click-to-time interactivity.
I'm biased here because I help produce these, but the shows on the Heavybit network are worth a look. Each show is hosted by founders, developers, or product/sales/marketing folks specializing in developer focused products.
Depending on this photogs tech proficiency I think they could pretty easily achieve this using Amazon Turk or pay for a custom solution using a dev tool like https://www.scaleapi.com/
Anecdotal, but I regularly purchase apps and services that influencers post about. The influencers that come to mind for apps specifically (iOS even more specifically) are John Gruber / Daring Fireball, Loren Brichter, Louie Mantia, Marco Arment...
I think the secret to great success is knowing your own target audience really really well, so that you choose the right influencer for max ROI.
Twitter already does video really well IMO. I use video in tweets all the time, and I watch videos from my timeline all the time. Why can't they continue both?
Yes they shut down Vine, but Periscope is making some interesting moves to mimic youtube and facebook live, but with the benefit of first-party blessing in the official apps and on the web.
We would have Twitter the API, and Twitter the umbrella network. You might want to promote a sub group into the larger network, or you may not - similar to reddit in a way.
I imagine invite only groups, time-limited groups for concerts/conferences/sporting events, location-locked groups that you dynamically join and leave as you move around.
I may just be describing iMessage or Slack at this point.
I think that's tricky. If Twitter is perceived to be charging users to not be abused, that's obviously crappy. Paid accounts or not I think there should be better first-party options for controlling who you see and who sees you.
At the same time, if the APIs are fully open, third party clients would be able to build more powerful filtering features. In effect that would allow anyone to build entire sub communities on top of Twitter. This is starting to sound more and more like app.net...
I'd happily pay $10/month for a 'pro' level or whatever they want to call it. I use Twitter constantly, but have always preferred third party apps - Tweetbot is by far the best.
If the pro level killed ads, increased data privacy somehow, and fully opened up every API to third party clients that would be more than worth it IMO. For example, I'm tired of Tweetbot kicking me to the mobile site to view moments.