A Dabble Will Do Ya
Posted April 21, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
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CTO Paul Wicks used to work at USInfrastructure where his team helped invtet ASPs.
Oh My GOD!!! What a load of baloney. Helped invent APS’s…….whatever.
A Dabble Will Do Ya
Posted April 21, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
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CTO Paul Wicks used to work at USInfrastructure where his team helped invtet ASPs.
Oh My GOD!!! What a load of baloney. Helped invent APS’s…….whatever.
A Dabble Will Do Ya
Posted February 3, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
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See also Mary Hodder’s super podcast interview over at PodLeaders.com… http://www.podleaders.com/mary-hodder-podcast/
A Dabble Will Do Ya
Posted February 3, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
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See also Mary Hodder’s super podcast interview over at PodLeaders.com… http://www.podleaders.com/mary-hodder-podcast/
A Dabble Will Do Ya
Posted February 2, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
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Note: Web 2.0 alert! Beep beep beep! Dabble is not ready for public viewing, but a blank page with a spot where you can enter your email is available…. this creates anticipation and more buzz! From what I know of Dabble founder Mary Hodder, she’s more than good for it. Mary calls this stage Balpha.
Dabble: Video Remix Community
Founded: 2005
Management Team: Hodder has street cred and coding cred and blog cred through her work on many of the search companies as well as her blog, Napsterization, and being one of the original bloggers with John Battelle at Biplog. CTO Paul Wicks used to work at USInfrastructure where his team helped invtet ASPs. Data/XML geek Lisa Rein worked on Creative Commons and with O’Reilly.
Funding: Seed money from Hank Barry, Evan Williams, Mark Pincus and Steve Schenker. Planning to do a series A in the next few months.
What It Is: You sign up for Dabble and create a personal page. Then when you see a video you like on YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, etc. you hit “DabbleIt” and it’s listed on your playlist on your Dabble page. Of course, you can tag it. Dabble provides users tools to support a remix community — playlist, search, browser, ask and share functions are all good to go, but the remixer will be built after series A funding comes through, Mary said. “That’s quite an expensive thing to build!” But the “ask” function is very exciting in its own right and nothing else like this exists online: you can type “I’m looking for a clip of an exploding ketchup bottle” and see if someone has one for you. In a more normal way, anyone can ask something like, “I’m looking for someone to edit my vacation footage.”
Business Model: Charging for commercial ads, advertising partnerships with hosters of video. “If we send users through to the hosters, we want a piece of the ad revenue they have.” (YouTube, Revver, Blip.tv). Also, if CNN, etc. want to “ask” for video of a flood (for example) from one of our users, they’ll have to pay for that.
Why: A lot of the remixers that are available offline (iMovie and FinalCutPro) are too complicated for most users. We want something very simple. Video has been spreading over the Internet; we’re basically an organizational tool with remixing capability. There are currently 95+ video hosting companies. We want to help people organize video they like across all those hosters.
Who: From a 14-year-old girl remixing her cell phone video and mixing in some footage from the video archives and then resending it to all her friends, to just the basic idea of being able to put a title on any video anyone has. Even just adding the title right now is complicated. For example, individual people who all went to the same conference or concert can all organize their footage in one place and then remix it together for a full experience from each individual.
A Dabble Will Do Ya
Posted February 2, 2006 by Jasmine Antonick
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Note: Web 2.0 alert! Beep beep beep! Dabble is not ready for public viewing, but a blank page with a spot where you can enter your email is available…. this creates anticipation and more buzz! From what I know of Dabble founder Mary Hodder, she’s more than good for it. Mary calls this stage Balpha.
Dabble: Video Remix Community
Founded: 2005
Management Team: Hodder has street cred and coding cred and blog cred through her work on many of the search companies as well as her blog, Napsterization, and being one of the original bloggers with John Battelle at Biplog. CTO Paul Wicks used to work at USInfrastructure where his team helped invtet ASPs. Data/XML geek Lisa Rein worked on Creative Commons and with O’Reilly.
Funding: Seed money from Hank Barry, Evan Williams, Mark Pincus and Steve Schenker. Planning to do a series A in the next few months.
What It Is: You sign up for Dabble and create a personal page. Then when you see a video you like on YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, etc. you hit “DabbleIt” and it’s listed on your playlist on your Dabble page. Of course, you can tag it. Dabble provides users tools to support a remix community — playlist, search, browser, ask and share functions are all good to go, but the remixer will be built after series A funding comes through, Mary said. “That’s quite an expensive thing to build!” But the “ask” function is very exciting in its own right and nothing else like this exists online: you can type “I’m looking for a clip of an exploding ketchup bottle” and see if someone has one for you. In a more normal way, anyone can ask something like, “I’m looking for someone to edit my vacation footage.”
Business Model: Charging for commercial ads, advertising partnerships with hosters of video. “If we send users through to the hosters, we want a piece of the ad revenue they have.” (YouTube, Revver, Blip.tv). Also, if CNN, etc. want to “ask” for video of a flood (for example) from one of our users, they’ll have to pay for that.
Why: A lot of the remixers that are available offline (iMovie and FinalCutPro) are too complicated for most users. We want something very simple. Video has been spreading over the Internet; we’re basically an organizational tool with remixing capability. There are currently 95+ video hosting companies. We want to help people organize video they like across all those hosters.
Who: From a 14-year-old girl remixing her cell phone video and mixing in some footage from the video archives and then resending it to all her friends, to just the basic idea of being able to put a title on any video anyone has. Even just adding the title right now is complicated. For example, individual people who all went to the same conference or concert can all organize their footage in one place and then remix it together for a full experience from each individual.
