Comments on: Slideshow company Animoto makes clever use of Facebook’s platform http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: The German start-up scene: Copycats, but getting smarter » VentureBeat http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-831772 The German start-up scene: Copycats, but getting smarter » VentureBeat Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:11:33 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/#comment-831772 [...] — A site similar to Animoto, that lets you build videos out of images, by analyzing the content of image for the best way to [...] [...] — A site similar to Animoto, that lets you build videos out of images, by analyzing the content of image for the best way to [...]

]]> By: Eric Eldon http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-798251 Eric Eldon Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:10:38 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/#comment-798251 kev, i wrote the article specifically because i thought the company did an unusually nice job making use of facebook's platform. yes, i did actually create a video -- did you see the screenshot of it? kev, i wrote the article specifically because i thought the company did an unusually nice job making use of facebook’s platform.

yes, i did actually create a video — did you see the screenshot of it?

]]> By: johnny http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-798196 johnny Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:57:53 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/#comment-798196 nice eric— thanks for putting together the k.buddy farewell video. we'll have to make another one when he returns! nice eric—

thanks for putting together the k.buddy farewell video. we’ll have to make another one when he returns!

]]> By: kev http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-798186 kev Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:45:21 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/07/slideshow-company-animoto-makes-clever-use-of-facebooks-platform/#comment-798186 animoto has no traffic because they're trying to pursue a saturated vertical. slide and rockyou target myspace teens with glitter themes, animoto tries to make animated movies that rarely work. who are they for? go try out their site, chances are whatever you try to make on it won't work, and your videos/music will crash. i know animoto is in beta (like any real web2.0 company aims to be), but come on it's like ricky bobby in talledega nights, when he keeps saying something offensive "with all due respect." just because he says all due respect, doesn't make it right. animoto getting press coverage doesn't make it right, neither does it's disfunctional product. animoto is in pre-alpha, with no real point or hope (maybe i'm wrong). with so many "important" and "prominent" and "experienced" people behind animoto, it sure took them a long time to get this facebook app. follow the alexa traffic pattern, the site has had a roller coaster of a ride, probably because 1) it doesn't really work 2) its pr firm took breaks in between the months 3) because it takes more than a facebook app to be successful. almost every top site on the internet didn't need a facebook app to get where it is today (that includes slide, rockyou, digg, etc.) now animoto has to compete with 10,000 other apps and jump on the facebook bandwagon to keep media junkies and investors and/or potential investors in line with the buzz words. woo. when will there be a animoto iphone app? animoto has no traffic because they’re trying to pursue a saturated vertical. slide and rockyou target myspace teens with glitter themes, animoto tries to make animated movies that rarely work. who are they for?

go try out their site, chances are whatever you try to make on it won’t work, and your videos/music will crash.

i know animoto is in beta (like any real web2.0 company aims to be), but come on it’s like ricky bobby in talledega nights, when he keeps saying something offensive “with all due respect.” just because he says all due respect, doesn’t make it right. animoto getting press coverage doesn’t make it right, neither does it’s disfunctional product. animoto is in pre-alpha, with no real point or hope (maybe i’m wrong). with so many “important” and “prominent” and “experienced” people behind animoto, it sure took them a long time to get this facebook app.

follow the alexa traffic pattern, the site has had a roller coaster of a ride, probably because 1) it doesn’t really work 2) its pr firm took breaks in between the months 3) because it takes more than a facebook app to be successful.

almost every top site on the internet didn’t need a facebook app to get where it is today (that includes slide, rockyou, digg, etc.) now animoto has to compete with 10,000 other apps and jump on the facebook bandwagon to keep media junkies and investors and/or potential investors in line with the buzz words. woo.

when will there be a animoto iphone app?

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