[sudoroom] starting the year off well

[Andrew]

If Google was willing to pay for us to spec somthing out then that sounds
interesting. Otherwise sounds like a bad business decition to work on
something for free for Google on the off chance they'll want to pay for it
when its done.
On Jan 1, 2013 7:57 PM, "Leonid Kozhukh" <len at ligertail.com> wrote:

> this is coming from someone involved in these kinds of purchases and bd
> relationships. quick sanity check: done well, would this be used by normal
> people to create their own stories?
>
> id argue people would use it if prompted to make a video profile that
> represents themselves, for instance - connecting google+ to youtube better.
> if you can create a few quality examples, then you know the tool is useful.
>
> makes sense?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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