The company now has about 100 people, working day and night shifts to keep tabs on interesting clips being uploaded to YouTube in real-time.
There is a need for video solutions such as search, visual cues to interesting clips of the video, thumbnails that offer visual summaries of the video, and embedded objects that can engage consumers with contextual commerce.
One particularly interesting clip is where Schmidt talks about "new leadership and organizational change".
Just a spark of an idea for a gag or action shot, and the app reliably makes an interesting clip.
Kontraband, a firm in London, takes funny, bizarre, conspiratorial or otherwise interesting video clips from its clients and places them on its own site and on popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube.com or Google Video.
For millions of Internet users, the site that opened to the public less than a year ago provides a daily fix of odd and interesting video clips, from White House speeches to frat house pranks.
The muted footage, along with four other less interesting video clips of him rehearsing and giving a message to his followers, is presumably intended to help convince doubters (there are still many, at least in Pakistan) that Mr bin Laden was indeed in the compound when the Americans attacked, and that he is now dead.The footage has been released probably for other reasons too.
Anyway, what I think is most interesting about Clips is the actual technology.
(I've lost count of the number of times that Twitter links to interesting video clips have taken me to static screens with a "sorry, not accessible in your region" message).
Insta360 has noticed that a lot of action camera and smartphone gimbal users are interested in its line of 360-degree cameras, and has been working on user-friendly in which its 360-degree footage can be translated into more interesting traditional clips and movies.
Yet, like others, he searches for information online, scans the relevant web pages by eye for interesting nuggets, digitally clips any relevant bits, downloads these along with any supporting files, and then prints them all out for easier consumption.
