Wednesday, October 4

Yahoo! buys Jumpcut.com - smart buy

Here's a video I made in about 15 minutes using some footage from my phone of my son Alec re-enacting some martial arts dancing he'd seen at the zoo. The soundtrack is an MP3 from iTunes. The titles, edits, effects and transitions are all from www.jumpcut.com which was recently acquired by Yahoo!

Smart move, because Jumpcut is to user-created content what YouTube has been to user-submitted content. Jumpcut lets you create very complex video projects, for free, in your web browser. With the Yahoo! audience behind it, it may be a real threat to YouTube.

Meanwhile, I give you Alec:

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