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Startup School videos on Omnisio, synchronized with slides and questions

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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..

Omnisio is a damn good product. [EDIT: How long did it take to develop, if anyone knows?]

Thanks!

We started around end of October last year.

Nice work. From the looks of it, I thought it was some new thing that Adobe or some huge company put out. When I read that you guys were from YC, I was shocked (not that YC doesn't put out good stuff) that you built such a good product with so little funding. Keep at it!

needs some more work :) as the videos seem to stop at mid points. nice though

It's actually a scaling issue - our server is seeing an order of magnitude more traffic than even our launch spike. We are working on a solution right now :)

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

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

Update: I just watched the whole PG presentation, and it did not get stuck.

Also: Your UI rocks!

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.

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.

(The rest are being uploaded as we speak)

What about for people without Flash, where's the download link?

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.

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?

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.

Yeah sounds cool ... just allow all my followers on Twitter to make comments for instance! Social YouTubing...

The videos don't seem to work when I click play on several browsers/boxes. Are they still being uploaded or something?

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 :)

This could be great, but the video and sound quality is not very satisfying so far (video is jerky, sound distorted).

Wow. Next best thing to being there.

Yeah we are still uploading the videos. Should be finished later tonight though!

Your site is one of a few that I've added to my bookmarks on the first visit.

A great service, for sure. Thank you for your work on this.

You guys are pimp. Love the video thumbnail for pg :)!

Awesome. Thanks for providing this to everyone.

2 thumbs up on the player ^_^

Wow!

Apparently my Flash 9 is not 9 enough. Flash sucks.

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.

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