ClipMine Improves Videos With Crowdsourced Tagging And Annotations
A new startup gets searchable videos, with a table of contents. It sits on top of players like YouTube. (You can also install a plugin to see the ClipMine player anywhere you see YouTube videos.) Founder and CEO Zia Syed said his aim is to build “the personalization engine, the metadata layer for the video ecosystem.” Anyone can add enter a YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion URL and start creating annotations, or they can add content to an already-tagged videos
In addition, to that video publishers can get more data — not just how many people watched their video and for how long, but also the specific sections they clicked on and the topics they were interested in. ClipMine has raised $2.6 million funding from angel investors including Google board member Ram Shriram, former Facebook vice president Greg Badros, entrepreneur Amarjit Gill and Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tam.
