EyeJot This lets you share links with video explanations
Quite often on the Internet I find something that I want to share — but I want to tell you why I’m sharing it. While Facebook, FriendFeed, Google Reader and Twitter all let you do that to varying degrees with text, sometimes I wish I could just explain it in my own words while you’re reading the actual story. Video mail service EyeJot’s “EyeJot This” bookmarklet lets you do that, and thanks to Ping.fm support, I can send it to the masses.
For an example of what I mean, take a look at this link. There’s me on video talking to you, explaining the link I’m sharing from a frame on the top of the page. It seems to me that might work better in certain circumstances than a text blurb followed by a link which takes you to the page being shared.
Once you install the EyeJot This bookmarklet in your favorite browser, you simply browse the web as you usually would and when you find a page to share, you click on the bookmarklet. This will bring up a small window asking for permission to use your webcam to record your clip. When you’re done you can either email it out to friends or send it to various social services such as Twitter, BrightKite, Facebook and FriendFeed via Ping.fm.
In fact, that’s how I found out about EyeJot This. EyeJot’s David Geller sent a link out on Twitter (which I found naturally through a vanity search), sharing a VentureBeat page he enjoyed and telling us why in his video. My parents would probably love it if I shared articles like this with them rather than through a bland email.
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About the Author, MG Siegler
MG Siegler writes about technology trends and new media for VentureBeat, with a focus on mobile topics, social elements and key news stories. Before that, MG wrote about technology on his blog, ParisLemon. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan where he studied film. He's previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where he did web development. He now lives in San Francisco.