The idea is to ‘share & play’ only that part of video in which the real content of interest is. In simple words, the clip from the video that I want my friends or other viewers to see!

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S473XaWNHmk&START=6-42&END=7-12

Because, seriously, when we share videos, we do sometimes comment with it saying: “Hey, check at 1:20, see what the dude is doing!”. So, the point is simple and apart from that the other guy will  view/download only the clip that is of interest not the whole lengthy video!

Below is a video (from) and I just want to share almost 30 seconds of the clip from it, starting from 6:42 till 7:12.

Clip starts at 06:42

Ending at 07:12 (the below pic looks abit same as above but its not; the building below is under attack in the game :) )

After selecting the clip from the video, what I want to share is of exactly 30 seconds as below:

Clear enough.

 

Who wants to watch the enormous length of 40 seconds “intro” of your video? Probably no one in the right frame of mind unless the person has so much leisure time :) Well, this is true to the very extent. I believe that users should be able to sort this problem out by themselves by sharing their likes and dislikes right in the middle of video content. Users skipping to the “juicy” parts of the video content – is a normal behavior; so, why not create a shortcut for it. People spendig time on video content hosting sites (see wiki here) like youtube can make use of it. Below are the concept pictures of video content Like/Dislike jumps. (Image from youtube video)

Video Content Like Jump
Jumping to the content “Liked by 2000 People”. The LikeDislike Jump bar is below the video’s seek bar.

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video-content-like-jump

Video Content Like Jumps
Multiple Jump positions for the users to select from.

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video-content-like-jumps

Video Content DisLike Jump
For dislikes, the same concept, but it would be really entertaining to know and view the video based on user-behavior. I dont know, if video hosting site would prefer to have this option. May be!

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video-content-dislike-jump

Video Content DisLike Jumps
Multiple Jump positions for the users to select from. Would you jump to disliked positions? I can say, I would – just out of curiosity! (thats what social interaction has a result on our behavior and interaction with any web content)

video-content-dislike-jumps

video-content-dislike-jumps

Video Content Like DisLike Jump
To jump to either Like or Dislike video-content, we can have the jump bars alternate to each other.

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video-content-like-dislike-jump

Video Content Like DisLike Jumps
Like Dislike Seek/Jump bars with multiple positions. I know, it can be messy if many users show their likeness rating. And it can be filled with enormous amount of metadata info and layout info. But, that’s what we don’t need to worry about.

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video-content-like-dislike-jumps

Video Content Like DisLike Jumps with Bookmark and Selective Play Option
It reminds me of my old post which was related to the below concept. But in that it was search based seek positions. See “Semantic Video Indexing Video Content Search” and come back! Here, another important usecase is shown i.e. Play only the portion of video which is most liked or whichever I select based on Likeness rating of the video content.

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video-content-like-dislike-jumps-bookmarks

Video Content Like DisLike Jumps and Social Plugin
Well, I want this. I want to know which of my friends either on FB, Twitter, or LinkedIn etc. have liked/disliked what content. It can be a useful interactive plugin for the video content. I can relate to my friends and might follow the friends which have good taste; then I might not need to manually jump to slective locations.

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video-content-like-dislike-jumps-bookmarks-social

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I was wondering if there would be one job in which I would be adept in and can make a difference, it would be watching youtube videos. And guess what, I just got a call from ‘a’ company to be interviewed as an employee for watching youtube videos.

When I was called to appear for the interview the next friday; I was fully confident, I even ‘practiced’, YES! practiced by watching a couple of hundred more youtube videos. I appeared for the interview 30 minutes before the actual time. I did shave, cleaned shoes, combed the hairs, even worn a tie as well. Even after so much, I was thinking how come someone can get rejection. Anyway, sitting at the edge of my chair, looking time and again to the lady at the counter, I waited and keep thinking about the best and worst videos I have seen. I remembered, have I seen around 10K youtube videos in the recent months, Yes! I guess. It should not be a proud stunt to watch videos online but I was feeling proud of it as it made me attractive for a new kind of job whose market doesn’t even exist. Now the time had come. I was called, I avoided any dramatic entrance, stood calmly, shook hand and settled perfectly on my seat right in front of 3 bowled head persons. The whole video collection I had stored, started revolving around my forehead like I am in some cartoon and got banged with a violin on my head.

The person in the middle said: Which is your favorite youtube video ? Alot of answers were in my mind obviously! I wanted to tell all my favorites but No, as it was a critical situation so I slided down one puzzling answer towards them but smartly. He asked, can you help us tell what is the trend of youtube videos in a particular field. I said Yes Sir, thats what I am looking for. He explained, we are working on some product and we want to trace the development of similar products in the market. He added, we think that every new product is showcased and marketed as an idea or final-product at youtube so why not have a person telling us, whats going on. I said, No Problemo!. The other man asked, how can we guage your performance? Now, that was a trick question. I replied, sure you can. You just need to hire another person whether I am watching youtube or not. I even, proposed few names who can do the job.

Next day, they hired me with my friend….Not! :)

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