[sudoroom] starting the year off well

[Jehan Tremback]

They probably are paying a lot for these commercials because they are well
produced and written (or at least professionally produced and written). And
well edited and scored. I doubt the screen capture tool is their bottleneck.


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Leonid Kozhukh <len at ligertail.com> wrote:

> *context*
> google produces these <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTjHCCU2E4c>commercials at a high cost. they then spend at least a magnitude more on
> distribution of the commercials.
>
> if you can automate the creation process, that would reduce costs
> significantly enough to warrant $5M. this is the product they would buy: an
> automated "google chrome" commercial creation app.
>
> further, releasing an app to the public would be a great marketing
> campaign for google on top of the original campaign. the highest bar to
> reach for here is creating a general storytelling tool that teaches users
> to simplify their communication down to be more effective and accessible
> (sorta like the powerpoint best practices that you can learn).
>
> *product thoughts*
> the input for the storyline comes from a user.
> the storyline can be constrained to only have actions using specific
> google tools.
> the canned media or screencapture personalization system needs to be
> mapped to google tools.
> provide an interface to pick the google tools to tell the story with and
> input text for the specific tool.
> create scene by scene, order, and bundle into video.
>
> can potentially use embed.ly to reduce the visual media component of a
> commercial to just a link pointing to a  piece of content. this might be
> the way to generalize the storytelling system to go beyond being google
> centered - more complications though.
>
> *status*
> i dont, personally, have time to build this - more than happy to have
> sudoroom or a sudoroom subgroup or friends at embed.ly get the check. id
> prefer everyone at sudoroom to not have jobs and be in charge of their own
> time at all times.
>
> that being said, im talking to art gibson from embed.ly tomorrow
> afternoon to run this by their team - they like to build simple products to
> show use cases for embed.ly, so they might want to build their own
> version. sudoroom is hearing this first, obviously...
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> do they also want users? that is where we could have an advantage as a
>> third party. but who knows
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jack Kern <jack.w.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd sit in on a meeting to evaluate if I could help out with my
>>> experience and limited free time. First thought is that any piece of
>>> software that costs that much must be a pretty big chunk of work no?
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 1, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  im down i guess. we have enough sudo talent to maybe build something.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Leonid Kozhukh <len at ligertail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> a friend who does business development at google just told me a product
>>>> that google would pay  at least $5M dollars for. i believe this will cover
>>>> all expenses, even potentially buy a building if so desired.
>>>>
>>>> anyone interested in software development and/or video please reply.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> len
>>>>
>>>> founder, ligertail
>>>> http://ligertail.com
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> --
> len
>
> founder, ligertail
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