[sudoroom] starting the year off well

[Jehan Tremback]

Also, they are not doing those videos with google products. They are
animations made to look like google products.


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Andrew <andrew at roshambomedia.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> len
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> len
>>
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