IP Democracy: Gotuit Introduces Video Indexing Tool

Cable TV tech VOD tech supplier Gotuit is making a bold jump into Internet-based broadband content with a new video indexing tool that allows users to tag or index specific parts of videos uploaded online. Called Scenemaker, the tool lets users click on a Gotuit-supplied toolbar when viewing a video, which then loads the video into the Scenemaker website.

Once the video is in Scenemaker, a user can flag or tag or label a particular part of the video and then email a link to friends or post the link on the Internet. The video isn’t altered in any way — the tags or links are stored on Gotuit’s servers. And the service is free.

Scenemaker currently works only with YouTube or MetaCafe videos (and presumably it’s own video sharing portal called GotuitTV, although Scenemaker lists only YouTube and MetaCafe), but it’s only a matter of time before other video-sharing sites are covered by the tool. Although most web videos are short enough so that few tags or indices are needed, some can meander for quite a while. It’s kind of cool to be able to cut to the chase when directing others to look at videos.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on December 12, 2006 6:14 AM to IP Democracy