Sure, video is a great entertainment medium. But when we start extracting value for future uses, then tagging video elements becomes paramount. One interesting startup is Veotag, which allows you to browse through longer segments by way of an outline of tags. They have a marvelous example online, Wynton Marsalis talking to the National Press Club about the state of cultural education and it's meaning in the US.
I wish I could direct URLs to specific segments! How many times have we seen video programs that create a huge impact, yet we are unable to link to specific points within them and share just those easily? Maybe Veotag's system will enable this at some point.
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you actually can do that now but only in email form. on the player, there's a linke to 'Email current tag to a friend.' it sends an email directing the user to that tag.
i didn't see anywhere that you could just copy/paste a link though, but the functionality is all there.
not only can you send someone a link directly to a segment inside a video, you can do searches in google for something that will take you directly to a middle of a video.
e.g. try googling "awesome earth rising" - first ranked match will take you straight inside a video of earth rising as viewed by the apollo 11 astranauts. or google "mookie wilson slow motion" will take you straight inside a video about 1986 mets. I think that is REALLY cool!
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