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Cuts: Online video remixing, a Web 2.0 mashup gone too far?
TechCrunch reported this weekend about (yet another) video startup, this time with a twist. Cuts promises to allow users a chance to play editor to their favorite YouTube videos, cutting, splicing and looping their way to the creation of remixed video content. Aside from the obvious and myriad legal issues, is this really where web video is headed? According to TechCrunch, "you just need the URL of your favorite video or click a bookmarklet to cut the video on your current page. [...] As of the private beta, Cuts will let you add captions, add a group of sound effects, loop sections of video, and trim out parts of the video."
I'm a superfan of remix culture, I'm just not yet sure where Cuts fits in. I'm anxious to see and try Cuts. The screenshots and writeup at TechCrunch show something far beyond what I'd have thought possible. Who wants to bet the guys at YouTube's legal department are readying a response as I write?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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sdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfg said 6:45PM on 2-05-2007
"anxious"? Man, you got problems.
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sdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfg said 6:47PM on 2-05-2007
"anxious"? Man, you got problems.
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