Google Acquires Video Mashup Experts – Omnisio

Mark R Robertson   |   August 4, 2008   |  

omnisio Google Acquires Video Mashup Experts OmnisioGoogle has acquired California based video mashup/presentation company Omnisio in order to provide enhanced video editing options and video collaboration tools and features to Youtube users.

Omnisio founders Ryan Junee, Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner expressed hope that the deal would help to make YouTube even more attractive to users through integration of Omnisio’s advanced video editing and collaboration tools.

Neither Google nor Omnisio have commented on the price of the acquisition, but it is clear that the Omnisio team is going to join YouTube. In fact, from the announcement (seen below), it seems that perhaps Google was primarily interested in the talent pool at Omnisio.  Clearly they hint at this in the announcement and do not really touch on the actual technology provided by Omnisio.

“It’s in this spirit that we’re thrilled to announce Google’s purchase of Omnisio, a small California-based startup that’s focused on making online video more useful and collaborative. The Omnisio team has tremendous technical expertise when it comes to advanced video tools and having this kind of talent at YouTube should help us further explore ways to enhance your YouTube experience.”

For more on this, there is a great article at ReadWriteWeb

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  • Hello Friends at Omnisio,

    Congratulation and having been acquired by google.

    I am sure and certain the tie up will be beneficial to all as well as to my pending web site :

    www.wadatube.com

    I am at the process of designing and developing wadatube.com which will offer a :

    Specific feature yet to be offered in Social Video Networking targeting people from all cultures , backgrounds and walk of life from 4 year old to 99 year olds.


    Please advise if Omnisio can assist me in building and creating wadatube.com namely with a the ''meshup'' with YouTube , Google and other various other affiliate program relating to the subject matter.

    Wadatube will also offer a platform for an auction to allow end users to place bid on some of the Videos contact posted by members..This can be mashuped and or in a J/V with Ebay under their
    http://developer.ebay.com/programs/affiliates/

    Upon replyinhg if possible based on above to indicate the required budget.

    Looking forward to hearing from you,

    Cheers,

    Michael
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