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Startup School videos on Omnisio, synchronized with slides and questions

65 points| tlrobinson | 18 years ago |omnisio.com | reply

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[+] ajju|18 years ago|reply
Wow. Never thought I would be endorsing another video/slideshow product this late in the game but Omnisio truly is head and shoulders above anything else. Just goes to show that if you can isolate a large subset of customers that are not being served very well even in a very crowded market (e.g. videos of presentations), you can do really well. Now show me a way of doing non presentation videos much better than youtube (yes, I did notice the mid-video user comments, good but not ground breaking!) and I'll be floored :)

Not to beat up justin.tv since they aren't really made for this kind of video but the contrast between the same video on justin.tv (or youtube) and on omnisio is just huge. Great work guys!

Edit: O.K. just noticed the subtitles that so subtly pop up at the right time. This keeps getting better..

[+] aswanson|18 years ago|reply
Omnisio is a damn good product. [EDIT: How long did it take to develop, if anyone knows?]
[+] ryan|18 years ago|reply
Thanks!

We started around end of October last year.

[+] wave|18 years ago|reply
While watching videos on Omnisio, I found the pop-up comments to be annoying. Maybe the comments should be off by default or let people vote up/down the comments so that you can remove the negative comments
[+] asmosoinio|18 years ago|reply
Looks great!

However for me, the videos stuck at some point -- Mike Arrington's at arount -17 min, and PG's also after about 5 minutes.

Even if I try to skip over this point, it just goeas back to "..I got my dog a few years ago <stop>".

Screen shot:

http://screencast.com/t/lraJDenM

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Vista, Flash WIN 9,0,115,0

[+] asmosoinio|18 years ago|reply
Update: I just watched the whole PG presentation, and it did not get stuck.

Also: Your UI rocks!

[+] DaniFong|18 years ago|reply
I'll echo the praise here, Omnisio is fantastically well designed. The picture quality, UI eyecandy, and overall presentation are stunning.

It's raised the bar for me. I'm drawn to hold myself to a standards somewhere near it. Thank you.

[+] herdrick|18 years ago|reply
It's not letting me finish talks. For example, right now Peter Norvig is halting at -15:20 and PG's talk is halting at -17:46. If I reload, the halting still happens, but at a different time. I've tried it on Firefox and IE on WinXP. Both apparently have version 9,0,124,0 of Flash.

Also, some of Norvig's slides aren't showing up.

[+] tlrobinson|18 years ago|reply
(The rest are being uploaded as we speak)
[+] wright|18 years ago|reply
What about for people without Flash, where's the download link?
[+] jacobbijani|18 years ago|reply
Plus one for the comments about Omnisio. Justin.tv just wasn't cutting it. Especially during the talk with the Sequoia guy who did the whole "I don't even have to read this slide" thing.
[+] paul9290|18 years ago|reply
Yes I digg it, yet I am very tempted to add off color comments and act juvenile. I bring this up because I wonder if you guys are working on a system to scrape these types of comments?
[+] ryan|18 years ago|reply
We are working on a feature that will let you whitelist a set of people who are able to add comments. The author can also choose to disable commenting completely.
[+] zkinion|18 years ago|reply
The videos don't seem to work when I click play on several browsers/boxes. Are they still being uploaded or something?
[+] ryan|18 years ago|reply
Sorry we had to bump up the number of php-fastcgi processes to handle the large number of simultaneous users that suddenly hit the site :)
[+] Tichy|18 years ago|reply
This could be great, but the video and sound quality is not very satisfying so far (video is jerky, sound distorted).
[+] mattmaroon|18 years ago|reply
Wow. Next best thing to being there.
[+] jfrumar|18 years ago|reply
Yeah we are still uploading the videos. Should be finished later tonight though!
[+] moog|18 years ago|reply
Your site is one of a few that I've added to my bookmarks on the first visit.
[+] smoody|18 years ago|reply
A great service, for sure. Thank you for your work on this.
[+] thingsilearned|18 years ago|reply
You guys are pimp. Love the video thumbnail for pg :)!
[+] thomasswift|18 years ago|reply
Awesome. Thanks for providing this to everyone.
[+] wenbert|18 years ago|reply
2 thumbs up on the player ^_^
[+] vesterr|18 years ago|reply
Apparently my Flash 9 is not 9 enough. Flash sucks.
[+] mpc|18 years ago|reply
I don't know about that. I would happily install flash once and be able to freely use something awesome like omnisio.

I would say that over-use of flash sucks and "click to skip preview" stuff is annoying.