Comments on: Yahoo idles Jumpcut, steers video users to Flickr

Economic pressures lead the Internet pioneer to direct online video users to its Flickr site. For video editing at least, Yahoo forsakes the cloud.

[sanenazok]

How was Yahoo going to make any money from this EVER. I mean this has a pretty small market to begin with.

[skillingssucks]

Yeah, I'm sure they get lots of takers by limiting videos to 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size. [rolls eyes]

[hiqutipie]

It was actually one of the better ideas that yahoo had but like everything else yahoo has done in the past couple of years it gets dumped because of Stupidity...Lack of vision...Lets see... they let millions of photos go out of their great photo library instead of finding a way to incorporate the necessary features into it to combine it with flickr..
They had a great email app just developed that allowed you to send up to 300 photos at a time in email which was very amazing & easy to use...It got dumped because it was getting rid of the photo library...
Jumpcut was a great idea that worked...How many sites do you see where you can edit & post videos...
It just wasn't a finished product Again...It was too slow to upload but once there it worked fairly well.. But the concept was there...The developers are doing the job & coming up with the right ideas but management is failing them...You build it...They will come...Make it easy...make it fun...It will make you money on the social network...Yahoo only needs Vision...The tools are there...

[TedAvery]

I didn't even know of this site till now. Unfortunate, it sounds like a pretty neat idea.

[terenceswee]

Online user generated video is definitely a very challenging area to monetize. Most UGC that matters to you (home movies, personal memories) are just plain boring to others. (which also means limited eyeballs, no ad-revenue) Many of the ones that attract eyeballs are probably too risque for most advertisers.

Besides, home movies need editing to be even halfway watchable, but who has time for that?

We at muvee have been attacking this problem for over 8 years. We started www.shwup.com recently to allow users unlimited uploads of video and photos, collaborative remixing and keeping access absolutely personal. Only you and your invited guests can view and upload to the album. Invitees need not register to view, contribute or remix. We fund this by selling our PC sofware, which we develop and ship over 50MM copies of globally. It seems to be working. Wish us well! (and I hope you try it out!)

(Disclaimer: I am founder and CEO of muvee. I hope this does not count as advertisement, if it does, I apologize.)