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Vidly Teams Up With Chamillionaire

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From one of the comments on techcrunch, it says the video commenting is easier than the seesmic approach. Although this may be true, I think there are more fundamental issues at play:

- it's quicker to type a comment than make a video comment - i once read someone say most people don't look good enough on camera to make video comments! - often commenting sections of blogs become arguements, if someone can see you, it potentially gives them more ammunition to diss you personally (e.g you're fat, short, dumb looking etc)

These are all valid points. We are not seeking to replace text comments, only to augment and add to the conversation. Over time, I think we'll see people get more and more comfortable in front of a video camera.

Didn't Viddler do this like 3 years ago?

obviously they failed due to the longer domain name.

I wonder what the Seesmic crew thinks of this.

probably makes them wish they were a YC company

Loic is as well connected as anyone in the valley. Or are you saying PG is known to bro down with Chamillionaire? You're not saying much...

When Vidly told me about this I thought Chamillionaire was the name of a startup.

That's hilarious. But to be a startup it'd have to be http://chamillionai.re (which is available btw).

I think PG thought it was some sort of other video camera service that provided its users with a wealth of features.

PG, you should try to integrate some hip-hop into your next presentation. But you'll need a better rap name. How about PG-Money?

p g-funk

"PG-13" was given consideration until focus group testing found the name to be lacking in street cred.

or PG-G-G-G-G-UNIT!

seesmic has strayed away from their video product for a while. they're focused on twitter clients and such now.

That's because their video product didn't have enough traction. It wasn't an accident, it was a choice.

Not so special, Chamillionaire is a web 2.0 rapper; he was at the Ad.ly launch party and he partnered with them as well.

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